Word: controlman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...destroyers is an impersonal war. The chief ingredients are radarscopes, computers, control panels, microswitches and radios-plus movies in wide-screen color. The only time the ammunition is touched by human hands is when it is loaded into the automatic hoist. Deep in the bowels of the ship, Fire Controlman Second Class Jim Fagan of Miami holds the portable trigger in his hand, nonchalantly squeezing the lever when he gets the signal over his headphones. "I don't feel like I'm part of this war," says one sailor. "I never see what we're shooting...
...Where's your first cut?" barked the outgoing controlman. And with that leisurely beginning the show started...