ADMIN DUTIES

when one says admin duties one refers to the org functions. There is a great deal of Admin Org actions for a ship's officer-personnel, personnel control, conferences, FP, con or OOD in port, org boards, hats, checksheets and packs for division personnel-a lot of purely org duties that prevent a technical officer from doing his job. We put a Deputy Fourth Mate to take care of the org duties of Qual. This has worked out at least to permit the Fourth Mate to C/S and run the technical aspects of the product of the division. (FO 2660)