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Show Larry McGarry Takes Leave From Navy After Overseas Duty Larry McGarry, Sonarnian third class, l S. Navy son of Mr. and Mrs. G. D. McGarry of 543 South 300 West, Cedar City has returned to his ship, the L'.S,S. Chief, a minesweeper, after spending the month of February Febru-ary on leave in Cedar Citv with his parents. Petty Officer McGarry enlisted in the U. S. Navy on Feb. 6. 1951 at the Navy recruiting station in Richfield. He received his recruit training at the I'. S. Naval Training Train-ing Station, San Diego, Calif. After Af-ter completion of this 11 weeks training Petty Officer McGarry attended the Navy school for sonarman at San Diego. This was an 11-week school and s'me of the training provided is in the following areas: Code instruction (72 hours), electricity (106 hours) mechanical practice (16 hours) and mathematics (10 hours). Upon completion of school Petty Officer McGarry was transferred trans-ferred to the minesweeper U.S.S. Heron and later from this ship was assigned to his present ship the U.S.S. Chief which just prior to his leaver returned from Korea on the Navy's rotation plan. Some of the duties and responsibilities respon-sibilities in the job of sonarman such as Petty Officer McGarry must know are: Tune and operate oper-ate sonar equipment in order to aid in the solution of practical problems of navigation, maneuvering, maneu-vering, station keeping, search and rescue. Operate sonar coun-termeasures coun-termeasures and jamming equipment equip-ment to destroy the effectiveness effective-ness of enemy sonar equipment. Send and receive International More Code on standard sonar equipment. Operate sound range recorders. Identify sound and magnetic indications caused by ships and distinguish such information in-formation from indications caused by natural disturbances. Furnish sonar reports, such as bearings and ranges, to officers in charge of steering ships. Operate Op-erate attack plotters in order to assist in plotting ranges and bearings of targets, in determining determin-ing course and speed of targets, and in determining areas in which to search. Operate temperature tem-perature recording equipment and read temperature of water. Make routine recording equipment. equip-ment. Lubricate equipment and make minor repairs.' |