Communications Watch Officer Evals
As Communications Watch Officer, lead 15 sailors in the operation and maintenance of all external shipboard voice and data communications for USS AMERICA and five embarked staffs, ensuring mission-critical connectivity across nine radio suites supporting 2,075 onboard personnel.
**RELIABLE-FLEXIBLE-MORALE BOOSTING SAILOR**
-MISSION DRIVEN. As a Communications Watch Officer, he stood the watch immediately after arriving to COMDESRON FIFTEEN, helping maintain two communications circuits, twenty-two cryptographic line items and training four local element users and also ensuring that ten ships assigned to COMDESRON FIFTEEN and five ships TAD to the DESRON maintain communications compliance and readiness by sending out five feisty weasels and participated in about 400 minutes worth of trouble calls.
-FLEXIBLE SAILOR. In addition to his roles as Communications Watch Officer, he has also helped out with Assistant Battle Watch Captain duties, sending out 48 messages for the command, including the drafting of fifteen overtime and low fuel endorsements, while additionally helping the ABWCs catch back up to speed when they returned from the 24-2 deployment.
-MORALE BOOSTER. Immediately upon his arrival to COMDESRON FIFTEEN, he has participated in or helped organize pizza sales, burrito sales and merchandise sales for the MWR, significantly boosting the morale of all who enter the cave and raising approximately $400 for the command.
**Reliable and versatile sailor. Well-deserved advancement!**
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