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I was a LTJG and the ship's electronic repair officer. At the end of WWII, I was an ET2C and received my commission in 1948 after I completed university. Since I had been an enlisted man, I knew their problems and did what I could to minimize them. We had a good relationship between us and it showed once when we had a field change kit to be installed in one of our radars. We had picked up the kit at San Diego just before leaving port. When we got to Pearl, we had to conduct air group exercises but as soon as they were over, we started the job. I told the guys that I wanted some volunteers to do it and I sould see if I could arrange special liberty afterwar. There were so many who applied that I couldn't use them all so we set up work shifts of 2 hours each. I worked with the first two shifts and the only gripes I heard were that a couple of guys weren't awakened for their shifts and the previous ones worked right through the next shifts. I did manage to get the liberty for them. One guy later signed up for a tour extension for another year.
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