Moinester (FF 1097) - Naval Cruise Book

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A fy JP , -4 5 F Iififqjjii CAPT. DONALD T. CANNELL, USN COMMODORE CDR. T. J. BERGER Chief-Staff-Officer COMMANDER DESTROYER SQUADRON TEN

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THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER LAMENTS EXECUTIVE OFFICER LCDR ROBERT L. HICKS, USN Lieutenant Commander HICKS was commissioned an Ensign upon graduation from the Naval Academy in June 1962. He was assigned to the USS BIGELOW CDD 9421 as Gunnery Officer for his first sea tour. Subsequently he served on board USS MEREDITY QDD 8901 as Weapons Officer, with COSURVFORXFLOT 10 in Vietnam, and the staff of COMCRUDESFLOT 12. He is a graduate of the Navy Post Graduate School and came to MOINESTER from duty as an instructor at the Naval Academy. LCDR HICKS is married to the former Shelby Langford and they have three sons, Ragan, Steven and Kevin. His decorations include the Vietnamese Campaign Medal with 3 stars and the Vietnamese Service Medal. AS NEARLY EVERYONE knows, the Executive Of- ficer has practically nothing to do, except decide what is to be done, to tell everybody to do it, to listen to reasons why it should not be done, why it should be done by somebody else, or why it should be done in a different way, to follow up to see if the thing has been done, to discover that it has not, to enquire why, to listen to excuses from the person who should have done it, to follow up again to see if the thing has been done, only to discover that it has been done incorrectly: to point out how it should have been done, to conclude that as long as it has been done it may as well be left where it is: to wonder if it is not time to disrate a per- son who cannot do a thing right, to reflect that he pro- bably has a wife and large family, and that any relief would be just as bad and proably worse: to consider how much simpler and better the thing would have bene done if one had done it oneself in the first place: to reflect sadly that one would have done it correctly in twenty minutes, and as things turned out it has taken two days to find out why it has taken three weeks for somebody to do it incorrecty. E94 ...w.Q,....l'i 'kwa MSEMPER FLEXIBILUS'

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