lo Speed up the use of many new devices that played an 

 immeasurable part in w inning the antisubmarine war in two 

 oceans 



2o Discover the facts on the inadequacies of old and 

 new devices and report them to the men whose job was to 

 correct and improve equipment 



3 Expedite the development of new equipment and 

 methods by reporting the improvements urgently neededo 



4o Train thousands of enlisted men and officers in 

 schools , laboratories and in the sound rooms aboard ship» 



5 Supervise the installation of new and complicated 

 equipment on ships , submarines and planes, and improve 

 methods of operation and maintenance „ 



S Sell the men of the fleets on the kind of work done 

 by research organizations and field men, and thus win the 

 personnel's confidence and understanding of the purpose and 

 usefulness of new devices „ 



From the beginning , the field engineers knew that the 

 Group's life would extend no longer than the period of 

 emergency^, and if the work were ' to be continued, someone 

 else would have to be trained to carry on Whenever they 

 fixed up a situation, before they turned to another job, 

 they always trained Navy personnel to carry on 



Early in the spring of 1944, the Navy proposed that 

 an organization within the uniformed Navy be developed as 

 a permanent solution to the problem of making specialized 

 engineering talent available „ A subordinate command at 

 the Naval Research Laboratory founded such an organization 

 of officer-engineers to serve as an installation, main- 

 tenance and operation group,, 



During the last year, the Field Engineering Group 

 trained 30 specially selected Navy sonar officers to form 

 the nucleus of the Navy's permanent field engineering group „ 

 Today, the Sonar Section of the Electronic Field Service 

 Group s operating under the- Naval Research Laboratory, 

 closely corresponds with the wartime Field Engineering Group,, 

 Thus, the work of field engineering goes on in peacetime „ 



There are good reasons for the continuation, since both 

 in the armed services and in industry, there will always be 



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