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...highest officer, his bushy eyebrows knit in concentration, his head tilted to catch each word, as some 1,000 sailors at the San Diego Naval Station met with him to sound off their gripes -some general, some highly personal -about military life. Quietly and sympathetically, Admiral Elmo ("Bud") Zumwalt responded to each. Clarence Burris, a black cook whose wife had died of cancer and whose three daughters now need his presence, pleaded for a shore assignment, since his ship was about to sail. Zumwalt immediately ordered aides to arrange a change of duty. As he stepped from the stage...
Although he was promoted to Chief of Naval Operations only four months ago, Zumwalt already has demonstrated that Defense Secretary Melvin Laird acted shrewdly in selecting him over 33 senior admirals. Zumwalt is proving unusually well-equipped in both inclination and experience to tackle the two most pressing challenges now facing all of the armed services: to retain and attract more volunteers at a time of widespread youthful antagonism toward the military, and to maintain U.S. security despite the curtailment of defense budgets...
Electric Feeling. At 49, Zumwalt is the youngest C.N.O. the Navy has had. In his last assignment, as commander of U.S. naval forces in Viet Nam, he toured, almost daily, the coastal bases, ships at sea, boats and barges of his "muddy water" navy. While he plotted overall strategy to check enemy shipping and water-borne infiltration, he gave junior officers and chiefs considerable leeway with tactics for their own vessels. He also heard out their complaints and came away convinced that today's servicemen have "an absolute right to be treated better than they have been -they have...
...C.N.O., Zumwalt has effectively applied his philosophical bent-an unusual blend of suave intellectualism in the Maxwell Taylor tradition and a populist disdain for those traditions that demean low-ranking personnel. The result is what the civilian-edited Navy Times calls "an electric feeling throughout the whole Navy." One Zumwalt technique, as at San Diego, has been to visit naval installations to hear out his men. Already he has met with some 30,000 of them. He has also initiated what he calls, a bit stuffily, "retention study groups"-personnel from selected categories who spend a week at the Pentagon...
Youngest Everything. Moorer's successor as C.N.O., Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, is a brilliant ship-of-the-line officer who is as comfortable discussing cost efficiency with Pentagon experts as he is on the bridge of a destroyer. Zumwalt is an intellectual who respects, but refuses to be bound by, traditions. Described by a fellow officer as the Navy's "youngest everything," he was the service's youngest peacetime rear admiral at 44, and now is its youngest C.N.O. at 49. Zumwalt spent 20 months in Viet Nam, where he was responsible for the success of the Navy...