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The controlled chaos on the flight deck is managed by a host of young men and women with an average age of around 19. But the movement of aircraft on the flight and hangar decks is the responsibility of The Handler, usually a Lieutenant Commander. To map out the movement of the aircraft and their status, a scale outline of the flight and hangar decks is used. And upon that outline, each and every aircraft assigned to the air wing is represented by a scaled sized icon, each one marked with the corresponding MODEX nose number.

Ironically, even as the Handler here explains the great advantage that the Ouija board simply doesn’t break down, the Navy is spending millions of dollars to develop a computer based version.