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WESTERN UNION
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PosT OFFICE
WAR BoND OFFICE
Alt 4 services located in Btdg.
2;8, Ave. H, near 4th St.
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SMALL STORES
Btdg. 2IJ, roth St., between
Aves. M and N.
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TRAVELERS' Am
IN CHARGE-Com- RAILWAY EXPRESS
mander H. E. Stone, head of OTS.
He will soon pin on his Naval Re- Both located in Bldg. 22I, ntb
serve ribbon the star which sym- St., between Aves. G and H .
bolizes 20 years of service. * -
building projects a 50-foot mock SHIP's SERVICE No. I
forecastle. Mac goes up a ladder Bldg. IJ2, 9th St. and Ave. C.
to the deck. He is initiated into the *
mysteries of streaming paravanes, SHIP's SERVlCE No. 2.
the underwater kites used to sweep Bldg. 8, ;th St., between Aves.
mines. On this deck too he helps Mand N.
receive fuel from another mock
ship. Fueling at sea will not present
many problems after this.
the actual machinery and electrical
Wires and Nets equipment used aboard ship today,
. Everything is wire in the Navy and demonstrate to Mac's mates
today, young Mac discovers during not just how to keep it going, but
the hours he spends in the scl!Ool's how to trouble-shoot when some-
LEARNING BY DOING is slogan of OTS. Top left, velop plans for expansion. They are, left to right, Lt. rigging loft under the supervision thing gets fouled up.
deck school tr 9 inees practice hoisting and lowering (jg) E. F. Keleher, in charge of winch -operators' of W. R. Craig, CBM. At a rigger's
35-foot boat. Top right, electrician class in engineer- training; Lt. (jg) H. V. Friedle, deck school head; Lt. screw, Mac proudly turns out his Gunnery
ing department acquires ,operati-onal knowledge of Commander R. A. Ibach, executive officer; Lt. A. 0. Now that Mac has his deck-
DE electrical switchboard. Bottom left, students Davidson training officer; and Lt. D. C. Schwartz, first wire strap. It can lift a jeep. school legs, the activity prepares
make small boat fenders which will be used by our schedule' officer. School trains entire personnel of It's going to the fleet too, like 20,- him to man his battle station.
fleet. Bottom right, some key officers of school de- new ships, gives refresher courses too . . 000 splices made in this loft during PCTC has already assigned him to
the past year. a particular gun; the OTS gunnery
OTS-TREASURE ISLAND'S COLLEGE OF THE SEA • • • SM and QM School department gives him a particular
A little red schoolhouse spectac- A. 0. Davidson, training officer, net. They take turns operating the Whiie Mac is gaining layers of post at that gun and trains him in
ularly mushrooming into a good- formerly dean of education at lever of a winch with a 50-foot scholastic salt, the school does not all his duties as well as safety pre-
sized college--roughly, that is the Luther College, Ia. mast and four 5-ton cargo booms. neglect the training of the bridge cautions.
picture of phenomenal growth pre- Into the hands of these · officers They raise and lower the load, they force detailed to his AKA. They Commander M. C. McWhinnie,
troop into the Signalman and Quar- gunnery head, sees to it that Mac
sented by Treasure Island's Op- pass reports from battle areas and work it over cowls and hatches dis-
termaster School supervised by and the other students have the
erational Training School during shakedown groups. In the light of posed just as aboard ship.
Chief Boatswain M. N. Smith- a latest armament employed by the
the past 18 months. combat experiences and changing "Ammunition Obstacle Course"
division so magnificently equipped Navy afloat. His school boasts every
Known as the Local Defense needs of the fleet, the school's cur- Stevedoring is not so simple when
that on a recent tour of inspection type of gun found aboard destroy-
School till it received its present riculum and facilities undergo con- ammunition is involved. Mac finds
Admiral F . C. Denebrink, Com- ers and auxiliary vessels.
name in June, 1943, at that date stant alteration. that out on the school's new "am- mander Fleet Operational Training
the activity comprised a single "When the last whistle blows at munition obstacle course," as Lt. Some of Mac's mates will be
Command, Pacific, styled it "the machine-gunners. They practice on
building and gave training to of- the end of the war," declared Lt. (jg) Friedle playfully· calls it. A
best set-up for training quarter- machine-gun trainers, which pro-
~cers only. Today it occupies 16 Davidson, "there will still be ham- cargo net full of drill ammunition
masters and signalmen I have vide a realistic simulation of actual
buildings and uses considerably mers going somewhere in the Op- is hoisted to a deck. Mac strikes
seen." Instrumental in ·making this firing conditions. This training is
more than 100 classrooms and spe- erational Training School." it down to a magazine, bearing it
school what it is today is E. E. conducted by ten Wave strikers for
cial instructional areas. Including "Mac" Enters OTS through passageways encumbered Bartlett, CQM.
bfficers and enlisted men, it has on The high quality of training the with watertight doors and other An outstanding feature of this the specialist ( G) rate.
its student rolls ten times the num- activity imparts can best be vis- shipboard hazards. The entire To polish off his gunnery course,
school is its "planetarium." Con- Mac goes out to the Anti-Aircraft
ber of trainees in 1943, and has ualized by following the adventures structure in which he works is
stellations and stars of the North- Training Center at Point Montara.
tripled its ship's company. of "Mac," GI Joe's Navy brother, screened on one side-through the ern and Southern Hemispheres are
Courses last from one day to in some of its departments. netting his instructor watches him The Apakamock
several weeks, and they are as Mac is a seaman second calss. He every inch of the way. depicted in precise detail on class- On the northwest corner of
room ceilings for the purpose of
varied as the jobs on a ship. For is fresh out of boot camp. Pre-Com- Maybe it will only be one explo- studying celestial navigation. Treasure Island stands the land•
officers, they run the gamut from missioning Training Center has as- sion- but it won't happen because locked ship Apakamock. She is a
Engineering Department
duties of officer of the deck to en- signed him to the detail of a new Mac and his mates got the hang mock vessel combining features of
The engineering force of Mac's
gineering administration. For en- AKA. Operational Training Sch.ool of passing ammunition at the Op- an AP A, an AKA, and a destroyer.
detail comes in for a few weeks of
listed men, they range from instruc- will give him a streamlined three- erational Training School before Their schooling finished, Mac and
brushing up too. At the OTS en-
tion for seamen to training in the weeks' course in seamanship and they went aboard ship. gineering department, Lt. W. S. his entire detail board her and par-
tactical use of radar. gunnery to prepare him for this ticipate in all regular shipboard
From the side of one school Iredale and his staff have assembled
Train Whole Crews duty. drills, including gunnery. From her
The curriculum mirrors the Mac is placed in a company of deck even dummy depth charges
school's purpose. It was organized 50 men. Just as in boot camp, they are released.
to provide stepped-up training for will go through all their classes •to- Off to Sea
the entire officer and enlisted per- gether. With one difference, how- Now Mac gets a taste of the real
sonnel of new ships-transports ever-the men in his company are thing. From the Apakamock he is
and smaller men-of-war'-and most from the same. detaU. They are transferred to a training ship afloat
of its students are attached to the boatswain's mates, coxswains, and to receive a week's training and
Pre-Commissioning Training Cen- seamen, and they will learn to work practice gunnery with live ammuni-
ter here. Lately, it has been giving ';1,5 a team. For that team, gradua- tion.
refresher instruction to the person- tion from the school will be the Afterward, he'll mount the gang-
nel of operating vessels of the fleet beginning, not the end, of their plank of his own AKA, and the
calling at nearby ports. It also ::ommon experience. captain will find him well worth
his keep--thanks to the planned,
trains large numbers of Coast School From Salvage
Guardsmen in gunnery and engi- The company enters the deck practical, and intelligent schooling
neering. school, · which was started • from he received at Treasure Island's
So many courses are offered in scratch and is still headed by Lt. college of the sea, the Operational
Training School.
so many different locations on the (jg) H. V. Friedle, a Navy man
Island that Schedule Officer Lt. D for over 30 years. Lt. Friedle can
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C. Schwartz had to devise six large take pride in his department. Its
wall directories to keep convenient massive cock forecastles, its rigs
track of. the classes. 1.nd booms prov!de one of the most
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School Still Growing impressive sights on Treasure Is-
At the head of this mammoth in- land. All were built to his specifi- HING TE
stitution of seagoing learning is ~ations by students,and instructors AN
Commander H. E. Stone. Com- working with salvaged materials.
mander Stone was for 12 years en- Train Winch Operators
gaged in administrative and per- In th~ winch section of the deck
sonnel work for the University of department. under the gniding eve
California and was dean of students of another "30-year man." Lt. (_ig)
at· the Berkeley campus prior to E. F. Keleher, Mac makes the ac-
hi_s call to active dtity with the quaintance of cargo nets. slings. RA
Navy in 1941. salmon boards, and a multitude of ER
Sharing the task of the com- devices used in m'oving cargo .. NAVIGATION AND GUNNERY are impo.rtant subjects on curriculum
hianding officer are Lt. Commander Mac and the men in hi.s company of OTS. Top, class of officers are taught to "shoot ~un" with sextant. NG LOOSE
Bottom trainee receives instructi-on in gun operahon from gunnery
R: A __ ,Ibach, . executive officer, a are shown the correct way _of lpad- nead, C~mmander M. C. McWhinnie, right, who recently returned from EE DENTS
veteran Naval Reservist, and Lt. ing different kinds of cargo into a two and a half years' duty as captain of destroyer in enemy waters.