Ready Room #4.  This is one of Hornet's large "ready rooms" on the second deck, which were used by the various embarked aviation squadrons for mission briefings and as general squadron assembly areas.  This particular ready room has been restored by the USS Hornet Museum to house exhibits commemorating fighter/attack aviation units, although Hornet in her later years carried only antisubmarine aircraft.

Another view of Ready Room #4.   Originally, the ready rooms were located below the flight deck but above the hangar deck, on the "O" levels.  However, wartime experience convinced the Navy to relocate their aircrew spaces to a less vulnerable location, beneath the armored hangar deck.  Climbing multiple ladders to reach the flight deck became a problem for heavily-laden aircrews, however.  This issue was later solved with the installation of an escalator directly to the flight deck.

Podium in Ready Room #4. The ready room door bears the squadron insignia of VS-35 "Boomerangers", an S2F antisubmarine squadron that deployed in Hornet in the 1960s.

Ready Room #3.  Further forward on the second deck is another ready room, housing exhibits devoted to antisubmarine squadrons.