Word: wallins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anderson's victim was Rear Admiral Homer N. Wallin, 59, chief of the Navy's Bureau of Ships. Wallin led the fight to prevent promotion-and thus bring automatic retirement-of Navy Captain Hyman Rickover, a brilliant, freewheeling Navy engineer who developed the atomic submarine. Secretary Anderson inherited the Rickover mess and the senatorial protests over the obvious injustice. Anderson examined the facts, disregarded Wallin's advice, and convened a special selection board which advanced Rickover to rear admiral. (He was confirmed by the Senate last week...
Meanwhile, Navy Under Secretary Charles Thomas asked Navy departmental heads to report detailed facts on their procurement plans. Some of the admirals replied with vague generalizations. Thomas issued a stern order for precise detail. On the second round, all complied except Admiral Wallin, who, in effect, told Anderson and Thomas to content themselves with broad policy and leave the details to the admirals. Since, as every Pentagonian knows, broad policy is frequently determined by details, Anderson considered that he was getting a well-known form of Pentagon runaround. Wallin was relieved of his command and transferred to the Puget Sound...