 The ship's nautical or otherwise photographic intelligence exploitation team or snoopy team is a reaction team that records and photographs any unknown contacts that approach the ship within a visual range for both intelligence gathering and documentation of the event. We have a couple different ratings that are part of the snoopy team. We have ISs as well as MCs and what they do is they go out and there are eyes for the combat direction center. Snoopy team is very important in the safety of the ship because we can't see who they are. We can't tell if that radar blip is a fishing vessel or a potential enemy combatant. So once they get within visual range we use the snoopy team to help identify who they are. From USS John C. Stennis, I am Petty Officer Lauren Howe.