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Latrabia Wright

Gunner's Mate (Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist)
Third Class Petty Officer (E-4)

U.S.S. Inchon
Ingleside, TX
 
Job overview
Typical day
Career path in the Navy

Seeing the world

 

 
Academic Concepts
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A typical day is you go in the armory. Once you get into the armory, you get a set of keys, which is about maybe 40 keys. And once you go in - you have to go to all the spaces on the ship that pertain to your rating. You check this temperature gauge on the thermometer and you're logging it in a temp card that's on the - in that space and you're initialing it. Doing an R rating is considered a - a high clearance or - I shouldn't say high clearance, but you have to have authorization to go into all of our spaces on a ship. Go ahead.

You make the rounds; you're logging everything in. You're initialing everything, and you do this once a day.

Then you go back and you clean your spaces because if we're not training people to shoot guns, then basically we're doing maintenance on them. So you go - you get the maintenance card for a 25-mm. gun and you go and basically . . . take this gun apart. You have to know basically where every part goes.