1. Shipboard Organization & Military Duties of a Naval Officer
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2. Learning Objectives
Know shipboard command relationships for administrative and operational environments:
Know the organization of various shipboard watch routines, and the duties and responsibilities of key watchstanders
Know the shipboard administrative organization and the responsibilities of the: CO, XO, DH, and Division Officer

3. Learning Objectives
Know shipboard command relationships for administrative and operational environments:
Identify the various conditions of readiness
Know the purpose of the Watch, Quarter, and Station bill
Know the purpose and contents of the Deck Log and Engineering Log.
Describe the authority and duties of a Naval Officer.

4. Authority
U.S. Navy Regulations outlines the authority of a Naval Officer. Upon commissioning, an officer is granted the authority and responsibility to perform his or her duties.
Definition - the power to determine, adjudicate, or otherwise settle issues or disputes; jurisdiction; the right to control, command, or determine.

5. Officer of the Deck Officer of the Deck (OOD) (Underway)
Safe navigation of the ship
Avoid danger and keep station by issuing the necessary helm and rudder orders
Make all required reports to the CO
Supervise all personnel on watch
Know the status of the engineering plant
Carry out the routine of the ship
Supervise and conduct OJT for the JOOD and JOOW

7. The ‘Deck’
To have the deck means to supervise all functions and maneuvers of the ship
Navigation, weapons, tactics, engineering, flight ops

10. Junior Officer of the Deck
OOD usually delegates the Conn to the JOOD
The ‘Conn’
Directs the movement of the ship with rudder and engine orders

12. Combat Information Center Watch Officer (CICWO)
Supervises CIC
Makes recommendations to the OOD concerning safe navigation and station keeping

13. Tactical Action Officer (TAO)
Assigned during wartime steaming or higher threat (deployment)
The TAO is responsible for tactical employment of the ship's weapons systems and defense of the ship

15. Engineering Officer of the Watch (EOOW)
Ensures the safe operation of the ship's engineering plant

17. Command Duty Officer (CDO)
Direct representative of the CO
Larger ships may have a CDO underway, smaller ships only when in port
All persons, regardless of rank, are subordinate to the CDO

18. OOD Inport Supervises the quarterdeck, ensures security of the ship
Carries out the ship's routine

19. Standardized Organization onboard Navy Ships
Minimizes the possibility of overlapping of responsibility
Minimize duplication of assigned personnel and tasks.
Uniformity
Personnel transferred from ship to ship will know basic organization of each command structure

20. Ship's Organization
Administrative Chain of Command - Department Heads report to CO through XO.
Operational Chain of Command - Department Heads report directly to CO

21. Battle Organization Conditions of Readiness
I: General Quarters - maximum state of readiness; entire crew at battle stations
II: Special watch for specific mission (ASW – Anti-Submarine Warfare)

24. Battle Organization Conditions of Readiness
III: Wartime Steaming, 1/3 of crew on watch
IV: Normal Peacetime Steaming
V: Peacetime Watch Inport - enough personnel onboard to cover emergencies and get underway

25. Admin Organization Commanding Officer (CO)
Absolute responsibility: safety, well-being, and efficiency of his/her command
Safe navigation
Preparation of ship for battle
Direct ship to engage enemy to the best of its ability
Morale, welfare, and living conditions of crew

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27. Admin Organization Commanding Officer
May delegate authority, but not responsibility
Training and education delegated to XO
Must be a line officer aboard ship

28. Admin Organization Executive Officer (XO)
Second in command, must be ready to assume command in the event CO is disabled
Coordinates all departments
Morale, welfare, discipline, cleanliness
Damage control, supervise operational plans and skeds….more…

29. Admin Organization Executive Officer (XO)
Preparation of ship's bills and orders
Supervises all education and training
Loading and berthing
Ship's correspondence
Approves liberty and leave

30. Admin Organization Department Heads Examples
Responsible for all aspects of their department
Examples

31. Admin Organization Division Officer
Acts as an assistant to the DH by running a Division of Sailors generally of the same rate
Examples

32. Admin Organization Division Supervisors LCPO - ideally E-7/E-8
Leading Petty Officer – E-6
Work Center Supervisor- E-5, runs 3M (maintenance and material management) program

33. Inport Watch Organization
CDO
Senior line officer on board
Authorized to take ship to sea if required
Designated in writing
Quarterdeck
OOD: may be CPO/JO
POOW: OOD's primary assistant; armed for security
Messenger

34. Inport Watch Organization
Engineering Watches
Damage Control Central (DC Central) Watch
Sounding and Security Watch

35. Inport Watch Organization
Weapons Rovers
Armed
Reports to OOD every 30 minutes

36. Special Watch Routines
General Quarters
Sea and Anchor Detail
Anchoring detail
Anchor watch

37. Bills and Logs Watch, Quarter and Station Bill
Designates personnel by name, rank, and billet for each casualty situation
Fire, Flooding, Man Overboard, etc.

38. Bills and Logs Deck Log Navigator responsible for proper entries
Includes every occurrence of significance
Includes engine orders, courses, speeds, positions, weather, damage, accidents, changes in ship's personnel or passengers, records of meetings or courts, reports of inspections.
Chronological record of all watches
Deck Log can be used as legal evidence!

39. Bills and Logs Engineering Log Engineer's Bell Book
Daily record, by watches, of all aspects affecting the engineering department including operation of the ship's propulsion and auxiliary machinery systems
Engineer's Bell Book
Chronological record of all orders to the engine room(s) affecting ship's speed

40. Summary Watch Organization Shipboard Organization Battle Organization
Personnel Organization
Bills & Logs

41. Review

42. Battle Organization Conditions of Readiness
I: General Quarters - maximum state of readiness; entire crew at battle stations
II: Special watch for specific mission (ASW)

43. Battle Organization Conditions of Readiness
III: Wartime Steaming, 1/3 of crew on watch
IV: Normal Peacetime Steaming
V: Peacetime Watch In Port - enough personnel onboard to cover emergencies and get underway

44. Officer of the Deck Officer of the Deck (OOD) (underway)
Safe navigation of the ship
Avoid danger and keep station by issuing the necessary helm and rudder orders
Make all required reports to the CO
Supervise all personnel on watch
Know the status of the engineering plant
Carry out the routine of the ship
Supervise and conduct OJT for the JOOD and JOOW

45. Tactical Action Officer (TAO)
Assigned during wartime steaming or higher threat (deployment)
The TAO is responsible for tactical employment of the ship's weapons systems and defense of the ship

46. Admin Organization Executive Officer (XO)
Second in command, must be ready to assume command in the event CO is disabled
Coordinates all departments
Morale, welfare, discipline, cleanliness
Damage control, supervise operational plans and skeds….more…

47. Admin Organization Executive Officer (XO)
Preparation of ship's bills and orders
Supervises all education and training
Loading and berthing
Ship's correspondence
Approves liberty and leave

48. Questions?