Thread by @TrentTelenko

Welcome to the fourth Twitter comment post (Feb 22, 2021) in the “Section 22 Week” count down to the 24 Feb 2021 Bilge Pumps podcast with the Section 22 Special Interest Group e-mail list. Today’s post will include slides 49 through 60 of 82 of the Section 22 information packet.

These Powerpoint slides cover Section 22 combat operations from January to July 1945. Today's cost posts are:

Welcome to Section 22 Week, Day 4
chicagoboyz.net/archives/65441…
&
"Section 22 Week" Feb 22 2021 post
Banzai facebook group
facebook.com/groups/1414345…

Today's "Twitter extra" involves legacies of US Naval leadership, both moral and toxic, that are wrapped up in the archival document photo here.

That photo is Adm. Raymond Turner endorsing Radio Electrician George L. Johnson's Nov 1944 redesign of the Mark III IFF to prevent Japanese exploitation of the system to identify allied ships and planes.

Johnson worked on USS Rocky Mount during the Leyte invasion while she...

...flew the flag of Rear Adm. Forrest B. Royal as commander of Amphibious Group Six. Johnson's section on Rocky Mount was responsible for getting 7th Fleet IFF gear combat ready for Leyte and Sec 22 Asst. Dir. Jolley's efforts hit them like a hammer.

Literally in between...

Kamikaze attacks, Radio Electrician George Johnson took Cmdr Jolley's warnings to heart, redesigned and submitted a production design to his chain of command on USS Rocky Mount.

(See attached document photo extract)

If Radio Electrician George L. Johnson's actions in the previous tweets are a legacy of Cmdr Jolley's moral leadership as Assistant Director of Section 22.

Then Adm. Turner's inactions on IFF are the legacy of CNO Adm. Ernest King's toxic leadership.

You see, while Adm Raymond Turner sent Johnson's designs up to the Bureau of Ships in Dec 1944.

Turner did not include Cmdr Jolley's IFF "delousing procedures" that identified when the Japanese were using their radars to identify allied planes & ships in the Iwo Jima & Okinawa

...invasion orders. Turner was to intimidated by King to do the right thing.

There is no knowing the human costs of this toxic leadership.

We can only guess.

I’ll give you my guess.

100(+) preventable US Navy & USMC casualties? This feels certain.

1000(+) preventable US Navy & USMC casualties? This feels like a very, very soft “no.”

Now, the modern "toxic leadership" gut punch.

Both admirals King & Turner are celebrated in the institutional histories of the US Navy.

Cmdr Jolley & Radio Electrician Johnson are unknown.

Which would you prefer as leaders in the USN today?

And what does the USN have?

This seems to be the answer.

Today's USN is Admiral King's navy and not Cmdr. Jolley's.

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