Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1929, Page 83

' ’ & - Complaint has been received by the . Navy Department from commanding of- ficers of naval vessels and stations as to the method employed in the bureau in determining the assignment of ensigns : and lieutenants (junior grade) for duty & . 3 5 . A K with the Navy in general and the com- Y * : batant fleet in particular. Recom- } mendations as to the treining of junics officers and as to reducing the turnover 9 ' on ships must be considered with the i intricate and varying problems of their general distribution. The correct distri-~ i : ¢ H bution of the junior officers of thé Navy is indeed an intricate problem, and it is necessary to consider this distribu- tion of junior officers on different types ! of duty before arriving at decisions as o to training and turnover. il The assignment to 16 battles! gs in full commissicn, 2 battleships in reduced commission, 2 aircraft carriers and 10 light cruisers requires a total of 180 lieutenants (junior grade) and 586 en- signs out of a total of 1,144 officers available in both grades. The assign- 2 ments to other ships of the Navy, in- cluding those in the Asiatic fleet, for the officers in these ranks are as fol- lows: 445 lieutenants (junior grade) i and 338 ensigns.out of a total of 1,548 \ officers remaining available in these two ranks. In addition there are 196 lieu- tenants (junior grade) and 149 ensigns assigned to special sciool work, includ- ing post-graduate, aviation, torpedo and - submarine schools. It is impossible to determine the exact number of officers , Who may be assigned to the different duties due to the variable number grad- uated from the Naval Academy. For exemple, the graduates from the Naval Academy for 1927 were 510; 1928, 145, and 1929, 210, a total for three years of 865. The total for the three years, 1928 to 1930, inclusive, will be but 730, due to the graduating class of 1930 totaling but 375 as compared with 510 for 1927. Upon this important subject of assign- ment of junior officers the views of the Bureau of Navigation are summarized 2s follow (a) Newly graduated en- igns will be assigned to large combat- nt ships in United States waters up to limited percentage of ensign allow- nce or total officer allowance of these vessels. (b) When classes are larger than can be properly provided for by (a) the excess will be assigned to de- stroyers, tenders and auxiliaries in United States waters. (¢) Officers on their first seven years’ cruise will be on large combatant ships about three years, on small combatant ships two or three years and on non-combatant ships one to two years. (d) Officers undergoing their third year on same ship since graduation will have received training both on deck and in engineering, and (e) ensigns trained for specialized duties will not be detached if avoidable. The Secretary of ths Navy has ap- prove the designs for the first group of five of the 15 recently authorized light cruisers. They will have the maximum treaty disp! ment of 10,000 tons and 8-inch armament. The most striking differcnce is that they will have nine 8-inch guns in three-gun turrets (twod forward and one aft) instead of eight guns in four two-gun turrets Another difference is that the new cruisers will be a few feet longer to provide slightly different shaped bows. The law pro- vides that three of the first group -of cruisers shall be constructed in navy yards and two under contract, and bids from contractors and estimates grnm navy yards will be opened on une 5. The joint Army and Navy Pay and Allowance Board, convened for the pur- o a . | se of drafting new legislation amend- B 3 the joint service pay act of 1922, - enlarged the compesition of this in Performance-Fineness—Comfort cfficers, as follows: Asst. Surg. Gen. C. C. Pierce and Surg. Gen. L. H. Thomp-. scn from the Public Health Service, Comdr. R. S. Patton and Lieut. Comdr. H. A. Seram from the Coast and Geo- detic Survey and Lieut. £y W. Kiehl~ 2 o . horn from the Coast Guard. The two main documents which form the occa- sion of the board’s deliberations—the McNamee board report, relating to Navy and Marine Corps compensation, and the draft of legislation and statistical compilation presented by Col F. W. 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