DEPUTY COMMANDING OFFICER

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Definitions

1. the CO's or ED's deputy handles the program functions of the CO or ED and is the Org's Org Officer. He ranks with the Exec Esto. (HCO PL 7 Mar 72)

2. actually, the D/CO is not the CO's OO. There could even be a CO's (or ED's) 00. It is not a ProdOrgtype post (D/CO, D/ED). It is the post that establishes and trains on policy the whole org, sees to recruitment, sees that the org form is right and flowing, sees that there are people in training for staff and sees that there are execs I/T for execs, sees that there is a TTC and that it is actually making auditors, etc. He is the guy who puts an actual full org there: the only thing that holds down expansion and increase in Pd Comps and GI is that no one is actively working to put a whole on - policy org there that will do its job. This is the real why of low GI, low delivery and other woes. The D/ also sees to quarters and their cleanliness and their readiness to do business as an organization. He does not take over posts where these are usually done but copes and gets people on those proper posts to do them. His minimum training is OEC. Orgs prosper when they are there in full org form, fully manned and in good quarters with fully trained staffs. All else is cope. Hence the vital D/CO D/ED post. (BO 100)