Firing the Battleship Guns

I recorded this footage in 1991 aboard the USS Missouri. My job was to communicate between the bridge and the plotting room to ensure we knew the exact location of the ship. You can only hit the intended target if you know exactly where you are firing from. This seems trivial today when GPS is used by everyone, but GPS was pretty new technology back then. We used radars and other navigational techniques along with GPS to verify we knew our position.