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DOCUIENT RESUME
00670 - [A1052007]
Changes in Navy Ship Overhaul Practices Could Improve Fleet
Capability and Crew Effectiveness. B-133170. April 8, 1977. 24
pp.
Ruport to Secretary, Department of Defense; by H. L. Krieger,
Directcr, Federal Personnel and Compensation Div.
Issue Area: Personnel Nanagemevt and Compensation: All Volunteer
Force Needs (303).
Contact: Federal Personnel and Compensation Div.
Budget Furction: National Defense: Department of Defense -
Military (except procurement & contracts) 4051).
Organization Concerned: Department of the Navy.
CongressAonal Relevance: House Committee on Armed Services;
Senate Committee on Armed Services.
The Navy could improve the manning of its ships at sea
and make better use of skilled sailors if it would selectively
re4uce shipst crews kept aboard ships undergoing lengthy
overhauls. Findings/Conclusions: A major contributor to the
lack of combat readiness of the fleet is the shortage of trained
and experienced crewmen. The Navy could improve combat readiness
by reassigning crewmen with critical shortage skills from ships
undergoing lengthy overhauls to operational ships or ether
billets where shortages exist and rely more on the shipyard to
accomplish required work on those ships. The use of such highly
trained personnel as radar operators, communications
technicians, navigators, and weapons personnel tc do industrial
tasks and administrative an3 support functions represents a
waste of training and experience that is needed on operational
ships and elsewhere in the Navy. Recommendations: The Secretary
of Defense should direct the Navy to reduce ship&I crews to the
minimum nunber essential for maintaining safety ci the ship and
equipment during lengthy overhaul periods; reassign trained and
experienced sailors to the fleet to meet critical skill manpower
requirem~nts; establish the necessary managerial policies and
procedures to use civilians in shipyards to do wcrk now being
done by ships' crews; and request the Congress fcr the necessary
operations and maintenance funds to accommodate the recommended
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