REPORTS

Table 2-2.-Enlisted Distribution and Verification Report Description REPORTS scribed in the following subsections, should be listed in your command’s instruction on recurring reports. Periodic reports and maintaining personnel and equipment records will become a daily responsibility as you advance in rate. Train yourself to be both Eight O’Clock Reports proficient and efficient. Preparing these reports and records in a proper and timely manner will allow you Eight o’clock reports more time to complete your other duties. In other words, if you let the paperwork pile up, you will be pressured for time and will probably do the reports hurriedly. Keeping up with the paperwork daily will decrease your stress level and will yield a better man- agement product for the Navy. Even though the CSO/weapons officer is ulti- mately responsible for all division reports and records, he will depend on your knowledge and performance for inputs to that information. Some of the reports and records with which you should be familiar, de- are daily equipment status reports given to the commanding officer by the execu- tive officer each evening at 8:00 p.m. (2000). At sea, the CSO/weapons officer usually gives the combat/ weapons systems eight o’clock reports to the executive officer. In port, these reports are given to the com- mand duty officer (CDO) by the duty department officers. As the senior FC, you must ensure that the information is current and accurate for your area of responsibility. Traditionally, the eight o’clock reports are verbal reports of equipment status. However, because of the 2-7