integration of the ship’s directives with those from
higher authority.
Directives can be useful tools for the engineer
officer. They must be clear, concise, and readily
understood. The format and arrangement are prescribed
in the Department of the Navy Directives Issuance
System Manual, SECNAVINST 5215.1C. The engineer
officer and other officers of the engineering department
are required to maintain directives binders according to
the COs instruction. The binders should contain all
directives (properly indexed and arranged) pertaining to
the officers’ jobs.
SHIP’S BILLS
The Standard Organization and Regulations of the
U.S. Navy, OPNAVINST 3120.32B, contains the ship’s
bills that guide the assignment of personnel to duties or
stations for the purpose of accomplishing certain
functions. Each ship’s bill is classified as an
administrative, operational, or emergency bill. The
watch, quarter, and station bill is an amplification of the
Standard Organization and Regulations of the U.S.
Navy.
Administrative bills are ship’s bills that facilitate
the assignment of personnel individually or by groups
to stations or duties that pertain to routine operations or
evolutions of the ship. Operational bills include the
special sea detail bill, replenishment at sea bill, rescue
and assistance bill, landing party bill, and visit and
search, boarding, and prize crew bill.
Emergency bills are ship’s bills that provide for the
assignment of personnel individually or by groups to
stations or duties to cope with emergencies. Emergency
bills include the general emergency bill, man overboard
bill, and the CBR warfare defense bill.
TYCOMs furnish ships the type of information
necessary to permit detailed assignment of personnel.
The responsibility for and maintenance of each ship’s
bill is assigned to a key officer, usually a head of a
department. Each bill must give division officers
enough guidance to permit assignment of personnel by
name. Each bill must have a preface containing a
statement of purpose, assignment of responsibility for
maintenance of the bill, and information supplying
background or guidance. It must have a tabulation
showing assignments of individuals by billet or rate to
stations or duties. It must also have a procedure
containing all information and policies necessary to
interpret the tabulated material. The procedures must
include special responsibilities of individuals with
regard to planning, organizing, directing, or controlling
the function or evolution to which the bill relates.
The engineer officer is responsible for the
maintenance of the rescue and assistance bill, general
emergency bill, and CBR defense bill. The rescue and
assistance bill provides a special organization equipped
and qualified to render assistance to persons or
activities outside the ship or to perform related
functions. The general emergency bill provides the
optimum organization needed to counteract major
emergencies and to abandon ship in an emergency. The
CBR warfare defense bill provides an organization and
prescribes the procedures to minimize the effects of a
biological or chemical attack.
Each division officer is responsible for publishing
and maintaining a watch, quarter, and station bill, which
is a summary of his assignments of personnel to station
and duties according to the battle bill and each of the
ship’s bills. The watch, quarter, and station bill is
arranged in standard tabular form. It has columns to
enter each individual’s name and rate, data from the
battle bill, and duties assigned under each of the ship’s
bills. The watch, quarter, and station bill should be
prominently posted in a space that is frequented by all
personnel of the division.
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