Topside is manned by linehandlers, phone talkers, men-in-charge and at least one diver. Linehandlers can be anyone on the crew. Heck, I was a linehandler and I was a Radioman.
I keep forgetting in subs everyone is everybody's everything.Have a friend who was an NPO aboard Missile Subs. I asked him what his most diffcult task was.." Turning lead into gold is demanding but routine..."
Non-Navy types have a hard time understanding why everybody does everybody's job no matter what their rates are.
I was a Yeoman on a riverboat in Vietnam and I did every job but a Yeoman's.
I learned the Radioman's job for voice traffic but no CW.
I was trained in "Cum-shaw".