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Henry Lewis

Information Technology Specialist
First Class Petty Officer (E-6)

Mine Warfare Training Center
U.S.S. Inchon
Ingleside, TX
 
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My name is Henry Earl Lewis. I'm an information systems technician. I'm currently stationed at Mine Warfare Training Center, Ingleside, Texas.

Information systems technicians are formerly radiomen. What we do is work on a command's LAN system. [LAN stands for Local Area Network and refers to the communications system within a given location.] Deals with downloading message traffic from a secure gate guard and putting them on the LAN system so everyone in the command can view them.

I'm working with radio systems, communication systems, give the command electronic e-mail capabilities where they can go out through the command and talk to everyone or send messages to each and everyone on the command without having to physically call them up on the phone or go by their offices.

We set up access to e-mail, Internet accounts. We also do training for them. We're at a training facility so we provide them with LAN (Local Area Network) capability where they can access information through other command-- training commands and it will be ready available for the students. And we go around troubleshooting ADP problems that people in the command have. ADP. Automated Data Processing. And whenever someone in the command has a computer problem, were it printers, software devices inside a computer, or hardware or printers, internal drives or whatever, we'll go around troubleshoot them, fix them, and get them back online as soon as possible.