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Show Technical Field Puts Barton "On Call" for U.S. Navy Lyle Barton, engineman first class, has been serving with the U. S. Navy at Treasure Island. Calif., as instructor at a Navy school for enginemen. Petty officer Barton re-enlisted in the Navy at Cedar City on July 16, 1952 and with his Naval I service during World War 11 now has nine year's service. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Barton, of Cedar City. Barton's wife Beth Craw Barton and his eight-year old daughter Sherry are with him in California. Petty officer Barton's job as engineman include some of the following duties: Operate main engines anil auxiliary engine-room engine-room machinery, including starting start-ing and stopping die.-el and gasoline gas-oline engines; maintain and lubricate lub-ricate clicsel and gasoline engines, en-gines, equipment and various accessories; ac-cessories; perform routine maintenance main-tenance and repair work on main propulsion and auxiliary engines; make major overhaul and repairs by disassembly, replacement re-placement and assembly according accord-ing to Navy standards; conduct routine tests and inspect: ms of such parts as air compiessors, governors, fuel and lubricating oil purifiers; operate and make repairs to refrigeration and air-conditioning air-conditioning systems on vessels propelled by internal combustion engines, and perform simple op-e-atkns on lathes, drill presses, milling machines and shapers. The training given in an Engineman En-gineman school such as Petty Oflicer Barton is an instructor, covers such material as theory, construction and operation of diesel and gasoline engines, and their associated equipment such as governors, motors and generators. gener-ators. Study in practical electricity, electrici-ty, magnetism, valves, gears, blowers and fuel injectors. The operation, maintenance and theory the-ory of refrigeration and distilling- plants. The theory and prac tical use of such instruments as tachometer, viscosometer and thermometers. The charging, maintenance and testing of batteries, bat-teries, soldering and splicing and the use of common hand tools. In this field Petty Officer Barton Bar-ton may be assigned to any ship, Naval shipyard, repair facility-afloat facility-afloat or ashore. It is the basic policy of the Navy to rotate its personnel between sea or advanced ad-vanced base assignments and assignments as-signments within the continental limits. |