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...Hawaiian Department. Major General Frederick LeRoy Martin, 59, was relieved as Hawaiian Air Force Commander. In their places: > As Commander of the Pacific Fleet, a calm, frosty-faced, steel-blue-eyed Texan, one of the Navy's best strategists and administrators, Rear Admiral Chester William ("Cottonhead") Nimitz, 56, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. To command until Nimitz arrived: Vice Admiral William Satterlee Pye, 61, Battle Force Commander...
White-haired, square-prowed Rear Admiral Chester William Nimitz, sitting with the House Naval Affairs Committee few weeks ago, took a look at the naval horizon through a seaman's spyglass. "Probably many of the Admirals of the future," said the Navy's Chief of the Bureau of Navigation (personnel boss), "will never have been to Annapolis." Committee members found this wild prophecy just funny. Since 1900 there have been no more than four officers of flag rank who were not Annapolis graduates: since 1914 not a single...
...Admiral Nimitz probably had the laugh on his listeners. The Naval Academy at Annapolis will never be able to supply the officer demand of the two-ocean Navy. To man the U. S. fleets of 1946-47, the Navy will need 36,000 officers, 15,000 more to man its planes. Last summer, at the start of the two-ocean program, the Navy had only 10,817 officers all told. And it will get no more than 700 annually from Annapolis' expanded enrollment (beginning next June...
...waiting at home for assignment. Commissioned in the Naval Reserve, the best of these mustangs (Navy for non-Annapolis officers) will have a crack at regular commissions in the Navy by meeting the Navy's qualifications after one year of sea service. In the long run, as Admiral Nimitz predicted, some of them may even wear the broad stripe of the Admiral's rank. For next fall's program another 5,000-odd will be enrolled, sent to training. But from its experience with the first group the Navy has decided to make the going tougher. From...