Table 2-2.-Enlisted Distribution and Verification Report Description
REPORTS
scribed in the following subsections, should be listed
in your command’s instruction on recurring reports.
Periodic reports and maintaining personnel and
equipment records will become a daily responsibility
as you advance in rate. Train yourself to be both
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proficient and efficient. Preparing these reports and
records in a proper and timely manner will allow you
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more time to complete your other duties. In other
words, if you let the paperwork pile up, you will be
pressured for time and will probably do the reports
hurriedly. Keeping up with the paperwork daily will
decrease your stress level and will yield a better man-
agement product for the Navy.
Even though the CSO/weapons officer is ulti-
mately responsible for all division reports and records,
he will depend on your knowledge and performance
for inputs to that information. Some of the reports
and records with which you should be familiar, de-
are daily equipment status
reports given to the commanding officer by the execu-
tive officer each evening at 8:00 p.m. (2000). At sea,
the CSO/weapons officer usually gives the combat/
weapons systems eight o’clock reports to the executive
officer. In port, these reports are given to the com-
mand duty officer (CDO) by the duty department
officers. As the senior FC, you must ensure that the
information is current and accurate for your area of
responsibility.
Traditionally, the eight o’clock reports are verbal
reports of equipment status. However, because of the
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