and in sufficient quantities to eliminate tying up the production line due to shortages.

Supply and Public Works

The physical property of a Naval Air Station is maintained by the Public Works Department. Again, Supply furnishes the materials which a department uses to carry out its duties. Public Works often does work for Supply, such as installing partitions in or additions to supply department buildings. Work requests to Public Works must state that the project requested is essential.

Supply and Yard Department

The Yard Officer is customarily the First Lieutenant, and is responsible for the general cleanliness, good order, and neat appearance of the station. The functions of the Yard Department include the fire department, yard craft, auto registration and traffic, main gate passes and prints, station police, and seamen guard. The relationship between Supply and the Yard Departments is a reciprocal one, since Supply furnishes the Yard Department with its material and the services rendered by the Yard Department are helpful to the Supply Department.

Supply and Operations

Operations is charged with the maintenance of aircraft and aircraft accessories specially assigned to it, the maintenance of equipment necessary for flights and landings, and the aerological and photographic work of the station. The control tower and field belong to Operations. Supply will provide Operations with the supplies needed for the control tower and the field and will also furnish materials for any planes assigned to Operations. Should planes being transferred between Supply Officers be temporarily held at an air station, the Supply Officer must be certain that Operations does not erroneously use such planes on flights. The planes are in the custody of Supply and no one else.

Supply and Personnel Relations Department

The Personnel Relations Department administers the employment of civilian employees in positions under classified civil service in accordance with the regulations governing employment of civil employees in the field service of the Navy Department.

The personnel of a supply department within the continental limits of the United States and at many stations outside the continental limits are organized and manned partly by civilian employees. Usually the civil service personnel greatly outnumber the naval personnel. In order that the Supply Department function properly, it is imperative that all employees receive just and fair treatment in regard to pay, advancements, vacations, sick leave, recreation, etc. There must be a very close working relationship between the Supply Department and Personnel Relations Department on these matters.

Supply and Communications

Supply is dependent upon the Communications Department for receiving all mail, messages, etc. Coded messages are broken down before they are delivered to Supply. Most major supply departments now have their own teletype in the supply office. Here plain language messages are received directly rather than having to clear through Communications.

Supply and Personnel Department

The station personnel officer acts with direct authority of the commanding and executive officers in all matters pertaining to records, liberty, leave, detailing watches, berthing, advancements in rating and discipline of enlisted personnel. All heads of departments appoint an officer to supervise the enlisted personnel attached to their respective units. The officers are assistants to the station personnel officer and maintain close liaison with him. As the Supply Department has a large share of

the enlisted personnel of the station. Supply's relationship to the Personnel Department is correspondingly important.

Supply and Ordnance and Gunnery

Supply's work with ordnance material will become increasingly more important as the development of the Ordnance Stock Office encompasses more material. Even when Ordnance unloads carloads of ammunition, Supply will still receive them and is responsible for keeping demurrage rates low. Furthermore, Supply still fills its traditional role of supplying material to any department requiring it and this department is serviced by Supply.

Supply and Medical Department

Medical supplies are procured directly by the Medical Officer and not through the Supply Department, since BuMed is not yet included in the Navy Supply Plan. Other supplies are of course provided by Supply. Medical Officers inspect the galley and food served in the messes. Therefore, there is a relationship between these two departments which is a result of the services both provide to the station.

Supply and the Aviation Training Department

Should a station be assigned to a training command, one of its most important departments will be the Aviation Training Department. This department comprises all activities directly concerned with flight and ground training of naval aviators and aircrewmen. The very existence of this department depends upon supplies being provided for it. The Supply Department is as important at a training air station as it is aboard a ship. In a station of a training command, all activities of the station functon to support the training department. Supply's duties and accomplishments are necessary to complete the integral picture.

Supply and Fleet Air Tactical Units

These relationships and those between FASRONS and the Supply Department of the parent shore establishment were discussed in detail in chapter 7.

SUPPLY AND FISCAL DEPARTMENT ORGANIZATION

Let us now consider the standard organization of the supply and fiscal department. The organizational chart for this is illustrated in figure 37. This organization is based upon change 12 dated July 1949. This is a projection to lower levels of the planning behind the Navy Supply System in which the consolidation of Supply Corps functions at large supply points led to the formation of naval supply centers.

The organization for the Supply and Fiscal Department places those functions over which BuSandA exercises technical control under the administrative supervision of a supply and fiscal officer during peace time when the size of an activity permits consolidation for reasons of economy. In case of a national emergency, if considered desirable, this organization will permit rapid expansion to wartime status without requiring major