The Bureau of Naval Personnel Career Publication

- THE BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL CAREER PUBLICATION JANUARY 1967 Nav-Pers-0 NUMBER 600 ~~ VICE ADMIRAL BENEDICT J. SEMMES, Jr., USN TheChief of Naval Personnel REARADMIRAL BERNARD M. STREAN, USN TheDeputy Chief of Naval Personnel CAPTAINJAMES G. ANDREWS, USN AssistantChief for Morale Services TABLE OF CONTENTS Features Ivy League On and Under the Sea: The Story of PACE and PolarisUniversity ......................................... 2 Torfuga:Home Base at Sea .................................. 8 Up-Side Down Duty-At the SouthPole ........................ 10 Rocket Rainmaker ......................................... 13 Corpsmen on Call:Heroes on the Spot ....................... 14 First Ladies of the Fleet ..................................... 18 HeloPipeline .............................................. 23 Departments Four Star Forum: Suppose You Were CNO for Sixty Minutes ........ 24 Today’sNavy .............................................. 28 Servicescope: Newsof Other Services .......................... 36 TheWord .................................................. 38 Decorationsand Citations .................................... 52 Lettersto the Editor ......................................... 59 BulletinBoard San Diego: A Great Navy Town and One of the Busiest ............ 40 TheSan Diego Naval Complex ................................ 42 Seavey Segment A-67: Pointersand Cut-Off Dates ................ 46 All AboutOfficer Assignment: Who GoesWhere, Why andHow .... 48 SpecialRoundup (In Verse Yet!) NavyNew Year’s Log ....................................... 54 TaffrailTalk ................................................ 64 John A. Oudine, Editor Associate Editors G. VernBlasdell, News Don Addor, Layout & Art Ann Hanabury, Research Gerald Wolff, Reserve 0 FRONTCOVER: VIEW FROM THEBRIDGE4bservers onbridge ofaircraft carrier watch NavyA-4 Skyhawk make arrestedlanding after mission over North Vietnam.-Photo by J. D. Goss, PH2, USN. 0 ATLEFT: UP, UPAND AWAY-Carrier sailorhoistedis tohelicopter from deck of USS Bradley(DE 1041) for return to parent ship after ExerciseSilverskate inSouth China Sea.-Photo by William H. Powers, PHl, USN. 0 CREDIT:All photographs published inALL HANDS Magazineare official Department of Defensephotos unless otherwise designated. ports) as it had worked with Polaris submarines. It also sought to iron out other problems arising in an expansion program in the surface Navy. This fall five more surface ships joined the afloat college program. Four of them, operating out of the San Diego area, are the guided missile cruisers uss Galveston (CLG 3) and Canberra (CAG 2), the guided missile frigate Mahan (DLG 11) andthe destroyer tender Piedmont (AD 17). Another tender, Cascade (AD 16) hasinaugurated a PACE program with Newport, R. I., as its headquarters for the shore phase of the college curriculum. HARVARD professors are not the only ones in the Boston area involved in this seagoing educational effort. Some of the instructors con- ducting in-port classes, or appearing in kinescope lectures at sea, are drawn from the faculties of the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston College, Boston University, Tufts University and SimmonsCol- lege, institutions which, like Har- vard, are members of the Commis- sion on Extension Studies. For submarines operating out of Charleston, S. C., the academic functions are being carried outby the University of South Carolina, while personnel operating out of the ports of New London, Conn., Boston, and now Newport come under the juris- diction of Harvard. Out on the West Coast, the initial instruction for Constellation’s col- legemen hasbeen under the direc- tion of eight professors from San Diego State College. Other univer- JANUARY 7967 DOWN SOUTH-Submen at Charleston study math under FBM college program. Rt: Polaris sub USS Sam Rayburn. WithoutDean Phelps’ perceptive of regular college courses, the basic The development of the courses vision of the program’s educational difference being that they are offered now being offered came about potential, a Navy status report says, outside the campus. The Polaris or through the combined efforts of Har- “PO~UT~SUniversity would never have PACE instruction, of course, is spe- vard University personnel, the Com- progressed from experiment and trial cially tailored, adapted for such con- mission on Extension Studies, experts to its present status of the most ditions as would be met by a Navy- from Boston’s educational TV sta- imaginative general education pro- man at sea. The filmed lectures re- tion, WGBH, and the Navy. gram in the Department of Defense.” place in part, and in concentrated On the Navy side, the Personnel “Extension students, whether they form, the usual lectures in a course. Research Laboratory, Submarine Flo- are enrolled in night classes inthe They are supplemented, when the tilla Two, andthe Special Projects city, or studentsfar out at sea, are ship gets back to home port, by live Office had a dominant part in the an interesting, varied group,” says classroom instruction andthe in- early success of the program. Bu- Dean Phelps. structor on shore duty also grades Pers’Assistant Chief for Education And he should know-he is chair- the students’ final examinations. and Training now has responsibility man of the Commissionon Extension There is the same amount of read- for the expanded PACE effort. Courses, an organization made up ing to bedone by thestudents as in of anumber of universities, colleges the comparable Extension course HOW DOES the Navyman who par- and educational institutions inthe given at Cambridge and Boston. ticipates in this program make Boston area. Incidentally, itwas from participating colleges of this organization Eligibility Requirements that Polaris University drew many topnotch instructors. The PACE program is now open After satisfactory completion of to members of the crews of Polaris all the courses, the PACE Navy- submarines and certain surface man will have the equivalent of HAT IS an extension course? Is it an easy course with the edu- ships listed in the article on thesea two-year college extension educational values diluted? pages. Plans call for its expansion cation. Dean Phelps’ answer points up the to additional ships and also major Individual courses also carry value of this education opportunity naval shore stations. college credits which maytrans- be being offered the Navyman. At present courses are available ferredto other colleges. (Final “These courses are the equivalent to personnel of submarines oper- acceptance, of course, remains with ating out of New London, Charles- the institution to which you apply Actingadministrative assistant shows pro- ton, S. C., and Hawaii, and to the ’for transfer.) spective student books and films usedat crews of larger surface ships op- Completion of certain courses is Polaris U. inCharleston. erating out of Boston, Newport, a prerequisite for other, more ad- and San Diego. vanced courses in the same field. Academic eligibility require- Your education officerwill have the ments vary with the participating details. colleges, but are minimal. The in- Participation in this program will dividual Navyman can limit himself not mean the loss of any benefits to a few courses, or he can take due you under the G. I. Bill. On them all. It is suggested thatthe thecontrary, the Navyman expect- student limit himself to one course ing to go to college after retirement at a time, and recommended that or release willfind that completion no more than two courses be taken of these courses will put him steps simultaneously. acloser to college degree. 5 survey of close to a thousand FBM PACE Navymen SeFect from This College Curriculum sailors who were enrolled in 66 Polaris University courses during Here’s a list of the courses in the at each location where the PACE- 1965. The dropout rate for the year PACE Navy College program. Polaris University program is now was 19 per cent, comparing favorably Completion of some of the courses underway. A few of the courses with the national dropout rate of 25 is a requirement before astudent are still in the production stages per cent for first year college stu- can qualify to take the next course. and not yet available. They are dents. Not all of the courses are available marked with an asterisk. How does the Navy benefit from MATHEMATICS CHEMISTRY these courses? DeanPhelps was College Algebra BasicPrinsciples of Chemistry asked. Coordinate Geometria (Analytic Geometry) Chemical Equilibrium “In many ways. As one example, Introduction to Calculus, Part I Covalent Bonds it has had the effect of encouraging Introduction to blculus, Part II (The Power Elements and Their Compounds men to enterNESEP (NavyEn- Functions) ENGLISH listed Scientific Education Pro- Trigonometric Functions *ExpositoryEnglish, Part I gram) .” Elements of Statistics *ExpositoryEnglirh, Part II Let’slist here some of the more Introduction to Mndern Algebra American Literature Probability obvious points which have encour- EnglishLiterature aged the Navy to sponsor Polaris PHYSICS SOCIALSCIENCES University and its successor PACE: Introduction to Mechanics WorldHistory, Part I 0 A method hasbeen developed Introduction to Electricity WorldHistory. Part II Introduction toWave Motion. Light and for providing firstclass instruction Ideologies in WorldAffairs at sea”-on a college level. Sound AStudy in Revolutions ‘Quantum Physics American History,Part I 0 The knowledge gained by a stu- Mechanics andHeat “American History,Part II dent is useful

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