A U.S. Navy destroyer escorts a United Nations convoy somewhere in the North Atlantic on 30 June 1943. A heavy roll in rough seas.
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Where We Were
January 1921 Proceedings—In “Psychology and the Navy,” Lieutenant F. H. Gilmer, U.S. Navy, wrote, “the human mind is the greatest machine in the world. Psychology is the science of the human mind; by it, we learn the construction of the mind, the manner in which the mind works, and the way in which to direct that mind so as to derive the most efficiency. The service should instruct an officer in this science; it should equip him so that he can at least handle men with the same skill that he handles machines.”
January 1971 Proceedings—“Crew living area, defined as net walkable area per man in berthing compartments, is conducive to claustrophobia,” Commander Melville R. Byington Jr., U.S. Navy wrote in “Shipboard Habitability.” “The U.S. Bureau of Prisons allows a minimum gross cell area of 45 square feet per prisoner. Our three newest attack carriers USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), USS America (CVA-60), and USS Kennedy (CVA- 67), as well as the Nimitz (CVAN-68), under construction, carry specifications of seven square feet.”
January 1996 Proceedings—“There is a military tendency to try to standardize all experience into doctrine,” Rear Admiral George Worthington, U.S. Navy (Retired), wrote in “Whither Naval Special Warfare.” “What needs to be ‘standardized’ is a mind-set that continually seeks out innovative or unconventional ways of getting the job done. Naval Special Warfare—and special operations at large—was founded on the principle of the unconventional approach. Becoming too tightly wound with encasing procedures in doctrine, lacking a clear idea of what is to be accomplished, will prove self-defeating. We should not ignore the past, but neither should we discount something just because it fails to fit an established paradigm.”
A. Denis Clift
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