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*CNO tells what's ahead after 3 turbulent years (Editor's note: This article, ness. He appeared tired, very tired. taken from the Department of Lines marked the tan face. Smiles Defense news clip sheet, first were friendly but infrequent. appeared in the Norfolk Virginian- Of course, Zumwalt limits all in- Pilot) terviews to 30 minutes. (An aide =.1. watches the clock.) It would be By John Stevenson unfair, based on such a short ses- sion, even to suggest that the ad- WASHINGTON--Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt- miral was losing his sing, his the man who three years ago be- charisma. came history's youngest chief of naval operations, who entered of- Nevertheless, anyone who met him fice with a zap and a zowie and at the beginning couldn't help notic- a flurry of revolutionary Z-Grams-- ing a change. Perhaps it's age. sat in the Pentagon and pondered During his tour as CNO, Zumwalt has his accomplishments. passed his 50th year; he's now 52. Frequently he rubbed his eyes, And he has weathered some of the which glow like charcoal beneath toughest criticism ever heaped upon brows celebrated for their shaggi- a military man. He has attempted to right the wrongs that irked him as ADM. ELMO R. ZUMWALT a young officer--a chance few ever The Z-grams are less frequent now got-and has found that not all as are the smiles of their creator. U. NAVAL BASE agreed. Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt is 52, and for the three years that he has GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA He has tried to eliminate one of been at the helm of the United the Navy's most inherent flaws, States Navy he has sailed a sea of that of long family separations, be- controversy. Are the waters calmer cause he didn't want others to suffer now? What are his thoughts today? the trauma he, his wife, and their What are this present aims? To four children experienced. Even find out, Virginian-Pilot military this effort was caught in a wringer writer John Stevenson interviewed the of budgetary constraints and congres- admiral in Washington and came up with sional criticism. the answers. Then there is the pr6ilem ot making it to the top and discovering that somehow, during the climb, the centile of his Naval Academy class; structure beneath has withered. who distinguished himself in the Looking down, Zumwalt finds that he Battle of Leyte Gulf; and who, with 0ry Ob 5 must describe his Navy as inadequate. typical zest, was the first Ameri- He uses the word frequently. can sailor to enter Shanghai at the war's end. He did it in a captured Friday, October 5, 1973 It's been rough sailing, even for Japanese gunboat, meeting and marry- a man who was in the 90-95th per- (See ZUMWALT, Page 2) birthdayOavyB ion cA~amiy ZaditOctober 13, 1973 Page 2--LATE NEWS ROUNDUP Guantanamo Gazette Friday, October 5, 1973 been made in this field (a recent Atlantic Fleet Am- 1 ZUM WALT-- phibious Force directive requires, for example, that top officers take about 20 hours of race-relations (Continued from Page 1) training), "I think it will be many years before the Navy is truly integrated at the top. ing the beautiful Mouza (in Greek it means "goddess of "It takes along while for the fine young men and wo- music") Coutelais du Roche before his departure. They men of minority backgrounds, who have been brought in have been wed almost 30 years. in representative numbers for the first time, to work As the nautical clock in his cabin struck 2 p.m., the their way to the top of the enlisted and officer com- admiral reminisced. He talked about hip personnel poli- munity." cies--he once described his Z-Grams as a program to eliminate "Mickey Mouse" or"chicken" regulations--ipnd Asked, then, if those now at the top have shown overt the Navy's reaction to them. discrimination, if this has been responsible for recent disturbances on aircraft carriers and other ships, Zum- Zumwalt acknowledged that not everyone approves of walt responded: "My view is that almost everyone has longer hair for sailors. Not everyone believes that some degree of bias whether black or white. I guess only junior men should have civilian clothes on ships or Jesus Christ was absolutely unbiased, and all of us, beer in the barracks. therefore, have varying degrees of it. The CNO explained: "I believe that whenever one seeks "I feel very strongly that it's necessary for all of to make major changes in an organization as traditional- us, and I include myself among this group, to have ex- ist as the U.S. Navy, there's bound to be a polarization, posure to racial sensitivity training whether we're of and you find people splitting into three groups. majority or ethnic background." "The first is a small group that seeks to go further Zumwalt mentioned his other programs--those designed than the changes permit, and they have to be brought to advance the status of women, those aimed at provid- in hand. There were some of those, but I think they're ing better educational opportunities "for all hands," pretty well under control. and those seeking to bolster job satisfaction for naval "Second, there is a small group which digs in its personnel. He pointed to his most recent directive, Z- heels and has to be dragged kicking and grain No. 118 which reduces the maximum sea tour for screaming into the 20th century. There were some of sailors from six years to five. those, and I think they, too, have been pretty well But then the CNO acknowledged that his changes are brought aboard. nearing an end. (While there was an average of 10 Z-gramsa month during his first six months in office, "Then there is that broad, central, overwhelming per- No. 118 was the first "Z" message in half a year or centage that recognize the need for change and get with more." it." Zunwalt emphasized that he has sought, and still seeks, Zumwalt said there may be additional alterations from to get across one concept: "The day of the martinet, time to time, but added that "they certainly won't be if it ever existed, is clearly gone in an all-volun- very frequent. I'm essentially satisfied with the teer environment. What is needed is the kind of lead- changes made to date. I don't have anything currently ership that is able to bridge the communications gap, on tap." the generation gap, and which is able to understand the He explained it this way: "I have always felt, in people who come in from society today and so inspire this job as in each job I've held, that one ought to them that it wins the intelligent obedience of orders, try to have the major fraction of his input, as far as rather than the kind of obedience that is enforced by changes, done by the halfway point and use the second the cat-of-nine-tails." half to drive into the system and make more efficient those changes." Probably his most severe criticism, the admiral said, emanated from his desire to provide "true equal --Details on the Oct. 13th observance of the Navy's opportunity for minority personnel." 198th birthday regarding Gitmo festivities will be in Zunwalt predicted that although "great progress has next week's Gazette. Water stattis Guantanamo Local Forecast Gozette 00,.040 oo0d0. .0ne. -er A-, -iph H. chealey cent. McalF ri -1va Bas aa tto Water figures for yesterday: Partly cloudy with isolated shower activity in the bay t. Jama-i. P11u.Aff Officer WATER PRODUCED: 1,272,000 area. Visibility unrestricted. J r t. i Aoo Winds light and variable be- Jos . .Edi WATER CONSUMED: 1,786,000 coming SSE 6-10 knots, becom- o e . ing light and variable after JOSs Sandy .e.m te Jo . .A .e . .********* I .*. .R WATER LOSS: 514,000 sunset. Max. temp 88. Min. -1 -,--00 1.0. 00.d . 000. 0000 . ."1--- 000 P ,h,0.-.0 o. 00 1 . -o PlOO -35 -,, d0.r temp 74. Bay conditions 1-3 d_.00 f0O.0018. p.100 f.-00 U01.0 . .to.d 00 O . 80.,0 03~0.aS 000.0 oI.t. n-. I00 .- WATER IN STORAGE: 18,228,000 feet. High tide 0317. Low .o0.o005.0010.p.ol00000 a000,0000* --d tide 0923. Friday, October 5, 1973 Guantanamo Gazette LOCAL NEWS--Page 3 Look for larger military pay checks Oct. 15 . This year's 6.2 per cent military pay raise, changes on base pay records and hopes to have which President Nixon had asked Congress to de- the raise reflected on military checks to be fer until Dec. 1, went into effect Oct. 1 any- issued Oct. 15. Accordingly, Disbursing will way* be closed today except for emergency trans- Disbursing has begun making the necessary :actions and personnel transfers. 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