Awarding of Medals in the Naval Service; Hearing Before a Subcommittee on Naval Affairs, United States Senate, Sixty Sixth Congress, Second Session, on S. Res. 285, a Resolution Authorizing the Subcommittee on Naval Affairs, Under (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...you with the other commanders a uniform standard of policy for the recommendations for relative service. Admiral Mayo. Yes; if you choose to put it that way. The Chairman. Did you and Admiral Sims confer at all about the awarding of decorations? Admiral Mayo. Not at all. I had no opportunity to see him. The Chairman. I do not understand exactly how they were divided up. It seems to mc that there might be some conflict, that you might have recommended some that came under Admiral Sims, and that he might have recommended some that came under you. Admiral Mayo. As a matter of fact, each force commander was responsible for the recommendations of the people in his force, so that there should not have been any chance for conflict. Senator Mccormick. He took those in European waters, and you took those in our own waters. Admiral Mayo. I did not even do that, Senator. I simply forwarded recommendations from force commanders on this side, just as I would have forwarded his recommendations had they reached me. Senator Mccormick. But your recommendations were for men on this side? Admiral Mayo. My personal recommendations were very few indeed, limited to the high ranking officers, force commanders, and the officers of my own staff. Senator Mccormick. Who was the force commander on this side of the Atlantic immediately subordinate to you? Admiral Mayo. I had two commanders of the battleship force, Vice Admiral Coffman and Vice Admiral Grant, and the commander of the patrol force, commander of the destroyer force as long as we had one here. That disintegrated. The Chairman. Ordinarily if you were in command of the whole fleet, including those in European waters, would not their recommendations have come through you and gone from you to the department? Admiral...