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WARNING Personnel working as overboard discharge watches and at the filling connections must wear a life jacket (kapok only), construction- type  (safety)  helmet  or  battle  helmet,  whistle, and  pin-on  marker  light. 2.  Overboard  discharge  watch.  Located  where  re- quired on catwalks, sponsons, or weather decks to ob- serve and report the overflow from the overflow tanks. 3.  Filling  connection  personnel  (Repair  person- nel). Located at the filling connections on the sponsons. 4. Anticontamination sentry. Located in the AvFu- els lab. Runners will be supplied to the sponsons to transport samples to the lab. 5.  Sounding  teams.  Stationed  where  required. Sounding teams should be equipped with a sounding kit that  contains  the  following: a. tape). b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. Sounding  tape  (plumb  bob  safety-wired  to Water-indicating  paste. Rags. Pencils. Tank  sounding  cards. Flashlight   (explosion-proof). Sound-powered  telephone  headset. T  wrench  (for  sounding  caps). Spare gaskets (for sounding caps). 6.  Manifold  operators.  Located  in  pump  rooms  or manifold spaces. Preparations to be made on the refueling sponson by V-4 division personnel are not as numerous and time consuming as those below decks, since the actual rigging for receiving the tanker is the responsibility of the  deck  division.  But,  there  are  certain  pieces  of equipment that must be assembled by repair team personnel at or near the refueling sponson to safely and  efficiently  expedite  the  operation. Repair  team  personnel  should  make  sure  the  fill- ing  connection  has  a  pressure  gage,  sampling  connec- tion.  low-pressure  air  connection,  and  a  flushing valve. The equipment to be assembled at or near each refueling sponson by repair personnel includes the following: · · · · · · · · Proper   handtools Drip pan Rags Swabs Buckets Five-gallon safety can Sound-powered   phones Clean  sampling  bottles The  type  and  number  of  pieces  of  fire-fighting equipment to be laid out near the refueling station must be in accordance with the ship’s fuel-handling bill. Telephone talkers are stationed at the following locations  on  the  4JG  circuit: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Below decks office Filling  connections Flight deck control Sounding tube locations Overboard discharge watch Pump rooms Manifold  spaces Damage  control  central All telephone headsets should be tested well in advance  of  the  receiving  operation. Receiving  Operation Communications should be established immedi- ately upon manning of a station. When all stations have reported manned and ready, the JP-5 filling and transfer system should be lined up for receiving JP-5. Open the following valves: 1. Below decks at the base of the downcomers to be used for the refueling operation. 2. All transfer-main bulkhead cutout valves. 3. Transfer-main branch header valves leading to the manifold of the tanks to be filled. 4-64

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