Bairoko (CVE 115) - Naval Cruise Book

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9 W R M Back row: Lcdr. Forrester, Cdr. Bettens, Lcdr. Cambron, Lt. Deege, Lt. Hill, Lt. Col. Feldmier, Cdr. Gill. Front row: Lt. Carroll, Lcdr. Fisher, RADM. Cornwall, Capt. Kohr, Lt. Wym Ltijgi. Crawford. Comfarbi I Standing, left to right: Buck, Hobson, Fuller, Fiske, Springer, Smith, Darlington, Putman, Wilson, Moore, Littleton, Curry. Front row: Chambers, Reuschoff, Swesey, Miccolis, Parker, Walker.

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REAR ADMIRAL, RUBLE 1 REAR ADMIRAL CRUISE Com Cal-biz! ff E ' 7 , QI 5521 545 Change of Command J LW!!

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ar g i lv? X .W . 75 Q 'SBE-lla cf E LTlJGl, R. L. SELF X Division Officer 'flue fxecutiale Ufficer Never bow dnything-Kat!! Executive Officers ore o fortunote lot. For, cis everybody in on officeiknows, on ex- ecutive hos nothing to do. Thot is, except: To decide whot is to be done, to tell somebody to do it, to listen to reosons why it should not be done, why it should be done by somebody else, or why it should be done in o different woy, ond prepore orguments in rebuttol thot sholl be convincing ond conclusive. To follow up to see if the thing hos been done, to discover thot it hos not been done, to inquire why it hos not been done, to listen to excuses from one person who should hove done it ond did not do it, ond to think up orguments to overcome the excuses. To follow up ci second time to see if the thing hos been done, to discover thot it hos been done, but thot it hos been done incorrectly, to point out how it should hove been done, to conclude thot os long os it hos been done, it moy os well be left os it is, to wonder if it is not time to get rid of o person who connot do o thing correctly, to reflect thot the person in fciult hos ci wife ond seven children, ond thot certoinly no other Executive Officer in the world would put up with him for ci moment, ond thot, in oll probobility, ony succes- sor would be just os bod or worse. To consider how much simpler ond better the thing would hove been done hod he done it himself in the first ploce, to reflect sodly thot if he hod done it himself, he would hove been oble to do it right in twenty minutes, but thot os things turned out, he himself spent two doys trying to find out why it wos thot it hod token somebody else three weeks to do it wrong, but to reolize thot such on ideo would hove hod o highly demorolizing effect on the orgonizotion, becouse it would strike ot the very foundotion of the belief of oll honds thot the Executive Cfficer hos reolly nothing to do.