Word: zumwalt
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...your cover story on Admiral Elmo Zumwalt humanizing the military: I know it is only a coincidence, but one of the patron saints of sailors is Saint Elmo...
...Your article on Admiral Zumwalt is as timely as his actions toward the Navy's men and their problems. Liberalization of regulations will not solve all the service's ills, but at least the problems are being acknowledged...
...Admiral Zumwalt's iconoclastic revolution within the ranks of the U.S. Navy is bound to have the classic results: disorder, confusion and, worst of all, the masking of the real problems within the military. Anyone with his eyes half open cannot fail to see that you cannot maintain an elite corps of professionals with poverty-level pay. Fringe benefits like psychedelic fun and games are just another Madison Avenue approach to duck the issues...
There are, indeed, dangers in too much leniency, as Zumwalt and his aides are well aware. Many top admirals wonder if the Navy has not already gone too far. As he retired from his post as Commander of the Pacific Fleet this month, Admiral John J. Hyland hinted as much in Zumwalt's presence, asking in his farewell speech: "How far can we permit absolute freedom of speech, deportment and dress?and still hang onto the indispensable element of discipline?" He warned against being weakened by "bleeding hearts...
Many commanders of ships and bases feel that Zumwalt is delving into personnel matters that have long been their rightful prerogative. Many Navy chiefs, the indispensable career men who run much of the service, contend that lowly swabs are getting perks that it had taken them years to earn. Besides, there is the issue of authority, the subversion of the chain of command. Grouses one commander at Norfolk: "Since these Z-grams came out, some men in the lower grades seem to feel that they are working directly for the C.N.O.and to hell with everybody in between...