Receiving my crow from Capt. Zartman aboard the USS Newport News in early 1972. FYI crow refers to making third class petty officer the same as Corporal or E-4 in the Marine Corps. This advancement made me a non-commissioned officer in charge of the gun director unless manned as in GQ by a gun director officer usually a Ensign or Ltjg or in our case a Marine Corps Captain over in Nam. Normally I was responsible for maintaining the mk25 mod3 radar on Sky IV although I manned the 3 other Sky directors at various times. The Sky directors aimed and fired the dual 5" 38 gun mounts which the USS Newport News CA-148 had 6 for a total of 12 5" cannons along with nine 8" cannons controlled by the Spot directors.
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