[Doohickey]

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.

[tomcorn]

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..."

[battlegearboat]

"Heck, I was a linehandler and I was a Radioman."

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".