First Division: 19 men listed, take care of most of the topside spaces and equipment on the forward half of the ship.  This also includes anchor evolution's, and maintenance and operation of the gig and number one utility boat.  During underway replenishment operations, 1st division mans stations 1,2,3,and 4.

Second division: 18 men listed, have topside spaces and machinery on the after half of the ship.  They care for and operate the ship's motor whale boats and number two utility boat.  During replenishment at sea operations, 2nd division mans stations 5,6,7 and 8.

Fox division: 14 men listed are the gunnery division.  It is responsible for the maintenance and operation of the six 3"/50 cal. RFgun mounts, the four gun fire control systems, the magazines, and other below deck gunnery space.

A Division: 9 men listed, handle all the auxiliary machinery and auxiliary steam piping on the ship.  This includes the deck winches, all cargo pumps, the diesel pumps and engines., and the equipment in the scullery and laundry....... "A division" also maintains the boat engines.

B Division: 20 men listed have charge of the fireroom.  This includes No.1 and No.2 boilers and all the associated equipment.  "B division" is also responsible for the ship's fresh water pumps, the ship's oil (bunker) system, and the oil laboratory.

E Division: 17 men listed are responsible for all ship's generators, the main and emergency switch boards, all light and power, and the gyro compass. "E division" also has cognizance of the degaussing equipment, all the inter-communications equipment and telephone circuits, the steering motors (electrical), and the electrical shop.

M Division: 21 men listed are responsible for the two main engines, evaporators, the ship's service generators, also the air conditioning and refrigeration equipment, main shafting and bearings, and the care and stowage of lube oil are handled by M division.

R Division: 15 men listed have the responsibility for liquid cargo, the carpenter shop, and the shipfitter shop.  The upkeep of all damage control repair lockers and all associated equipment is part of their job.  r division also has charge of the cargo systems, shipboard repair, and the co² systems.

K Division: 9 men listed have the responsibility for Cargo Transfer,  being in charge of pumping the fuel to the ships that came along side and when we went to a fuel pier.
 

Operations is responsible for the upkeep, maintenance, and operation of all electronic equipment (such as radar and radios), signaling equipment, and navigational equipment on the ship.  The men in this department plot the ship's courses at sea, provide a combat information center, and provide various communications facilities such as are found only in the navy.  The radioman, radarman, signalman, quartermaster, and electronics technician-each contributes his part to the important overall mission of operations.
 

The mission of the supply department is service.  All of its facilities - the laundry, the soda fountain, the galley, the stockroom, the barber shop, tailor shop, clothing and small stores - were designed to create a product.  That product is service.  to operate supply's facilities requires a diversity of skill and rates.  It takes the commissarymen, the storekeepers, the disbursing clerks, the stewards, and the ship's servicement to turn out supply's most important product, service.

It is in the hands of X division, under the control of the executive officer, that a great deal of the ship's business rests.  In the ship's office, the yeomen handle the brunt of the paperwork generated by the various departments on the ship, the personnelmen handle the entire job of service records and personnel transfers and orders, and together they share the tasks of compliling everything from seralized letters from the command to daily printing of the plan of the day.  Late hours, long days hovered over the typewriter, and much time spent in delving for the correct way to do things in a number of manuals - this is their job.
In addition to running the ship's office, x division also includes the medical department ( composed of the hospital corpsmen), and the chief master-at arms (responsible for the ship's own police force).
X division is essential to the operation of the ship.