PROCEDURES FOR CHANGE TO THE WATCH, QUARTER, AND STATION BILL

Military Requirements for Chief Petty Officer
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Figure 7-1.-Watch, quarter, and station bill. PROCEDURES FOR CHANGE TO THE WATCH, QUARTER, AND STATION BILL Frequent personnel turnover is a fact of life in the Navy. You should check your watch, quarter, and station bill every time someone transfers, goes on leave or temporary additional duty (TAD), and before each underway period. The reason for checking is to make sure qualified personnel from your division are assigned to meet the requirements placed on the division by the various ship’s bills. When a person transfers, the easy way to update the watch, quarter, and station bill would be to place the person’s relief in the billet. That may be possible for a minor job assignment, but a more complicated job assignment may require a shifting of three or four people just to fill the vacancy caused by one person’s transfer. The same type of problems can be encountered when a person is on leave or TAD. Make a temporary shift of personnel to cover the individual’s absence. Make all the necessary shifts required to fill a transferring person’s billet with qualified personnel. Make appropriate changes to your division’s watch, quarter, and station bill and notify your division personnel of any changes. Next, forward the changes to the ship’s senior watch officer so he or she can update the ship’s master watch, quarter, and station bill. DRILL AND FORMATION Since many of your division personnel may have just reported from boot camp, they may be more familiar with the basic drill and formation movements than you are. Therefore, this section reviews basic commands used in drill and forma- tion. It also presents the basic procedures for presenting personnel and conducting inspections. Many military functions, such as morning quarters and personnel inspections, require that you assemble in formation. The terms used to identify these formations may vary at different commands. For example, the term squad or platoon at one command may be a detail, division, or class at another. In this chapter, the term squad is used to represent a basic formation. Study the diagram in figure 7-3 as you review the 7-2

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