May 1924 Proceedings—In “Naval Mirrors”, Lieutenant Commander R. P. Guiler Jr., U.S. Navy, wrote: “It should be in Navy Regulations for reporting seniors to show all officers their fitness reports before reporting them to the Department. Then we shall know at least every six months how we stand. All of us at the slightest excuse ‘holler’ about a square deal. We want to be treated like grown men. We don’t want to be treated like children, neither do we want to be ‘soft soaped’ all the time, but a hint at praise from our immediate seniors works wonders in our systems of self esteem.”
May 1974 Proceedings—In “The Present and Future of West Coast Fishing Industries,” Richard H. Phillips wrote, “The weakness of the Western fisheries . . . lies at the political level. . . . The U.S. Coast Guard does a remarkable job of patrolling the West Coast in the areas where foreign fleets operate. Those areas stretch from San Francisco to Kodiak, and on to Adak and include all of the eastern Bering Sea. It is a huge expanse of ocean, most of the year the weather is miserable, and the Coast Guard’s surveillance ships and airplanes are spread very, very thinly.”
May 1999 Proceedings—In his Arleigh Burke Essay Contest winner, “Human-Centric Warfare,” Commander Alan D. Zimm, U.S. Navy (Retired), wrote, “C4ISR that is not attuned to the human decision-making process is like a weapon without an aiming mechanism. We would not dream of acquiring a gun system without knowing what caliber bullet to use . . . yet we do not have a useful understanding of what information we should put into human decision-makers. . . . We must move to better understand . . . human decision processes.”
A. Denis Clift
Golden Life Member
