US Naval Hospital Corps School - Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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DI BURSING DIVI IO The Disbursing Division is responsible for the payment of military personnel assigned to the hospital, the preparation and payment of public vouchers, and the accounting for public funds. The Division furnishes transportation requests, meal tickets and other advances, and provides clothing and small stores services. The Division also holds patients' money and valu- ables for safekeeping as requested. The Disbursing Division is divided into four branches, Military Pay Accounts, Fiscal, Public Voucher and Trans- portation, Clothing and Small Stores. The Military Pay Accounts Branch prepares and maintains pay records of all naval personnel, both staff and patient, attached to the Hospital, and processes all changes in the pay status of personnel, it computes amounts of pay due, prepares money lists, and pays personnel, it receives and processes requests to register or stop allotments, and it proc- esses pay records of personnel released, retired or discharged. The Fiscal Branch prepares checks for payment of public vouchers, and accounts for checking funds, it maintains daily balance sheets, prepares monthly requests for the allot- ment of funds, certificates of deposit and money requisitions, it reconciles Treasury statements, prepares and submits LIEUT. fj.g.J STUART D. WECHSLER, SC Chief, Disbursing Division monthly financial returns, including supporting vouchers, and it receives from the Collection Agent monies for depend- ents' hospitalization and subsistence. V Public Voucher and Transportation Branch prepares pub- lic vouchers for the payment of mileage and per diem claims and for the transportation of dependents, military escorts, household effects, and insures that supporting papers are completed, it issues government transportation requests and meal tickets and makes necessary travel reservations, pre- pares monthly travel reports, computes travel allowances upon discharge of persons from the Hospital and maintains records of public vouchers paid, including refund vouchers. The Clothing and Small Stores Branch operates the cloth- ing and small stores issue and bulk storeroomsg requisitions and stocks stores items, accounts for cash received from sales, and assists in monthly and other inventories of stores.

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LEGAL DIVISIO The Office of the Counsel provides legal services for the command, and for active duty and retired military and naval personnel and their dependents upon request. This office consists of two main branches, a military law branch and a civil law branch. It also has a reporting and secretarial unit whose personnel consists-of two civil service employees. All other persons assigned for duty in the Office of the Counsel are members of the naval service. The officer in charge has dual titles, legal officer and legal assistance officerf' The title legal officerv has application to his being head of the military law branch. Whether he bears the title of fclegal assistance officer or legal assistance referral offi- cer depends upon Whether or not he is a qualified lawyer, the former title being applicable in the event he is and the latter being applicable in the event he is not. The incumbent is a fully qualified attorney. The function of the military law branch is to handle all official matters of a legal nature pertinent to the command. It handles liaison with other military and civilian law en- forcement agencies, and is responsible for receiving, inter- viewing, and assisting all persons who come aboard this station on legal matters, including naval and military in- vestigating officers, police officers, adjustors, attorneys, and other individuals in similar capacities. Likewise, the cases of military personnel attached to this command, staff and patients, who have been reported for commission of alleged offenses, are processed through the military law branch in preparation for disposition by the LIEUT. COMDR. WOLFGANG E. KLOSTERMANN, Msc, UsN Chief, Legal Division commanding officer. The military law branch also prepares appointing orders for courts-martial and various types of investigative boards, and prepares such reports and other correspondence as are necessary to carry out its mission. At the present time, there is an assistant legal officer as- signed to the Office of the Counsel for training purposes. He assists the legal officer in matters over which the military law branch has cognizance and, in the legal officeris absence, takes action on such military law matters as he is qualified to handle. The enlisted members of the military law branch are under the direct control and supervision of a chief petty officer whose responsibility it is to see that the Work assign- ments given by him to those members are carried out, and to assist in the smooth functioning of this branch. The function of the civil law branch is to provide legal assistance for active duty and retired military and naval personnel and their dependents who have personal legal problems. By regulation, service personnel who are not law- yers are prohibited from counseling individuals in respect to personal legal problems and from rendering any other legal service ordinarily provided by an attorney. Accordingly,