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. Periodic review of ship’s stores operations
to provide an overview or to identify potential
problem areas
. Work scheduling and control, job instruc-
tion and training programs, safety and sanitation,
equipment maintenance, minor repairs (as
necessary), and operations
In addition, the fleet assistance representatives
maintain liaisons with fleet and type commanders,
Navy supply support activities, fleet accounting
and disbursing centers, and other cognizant
activities on various ship’s stores problems.
Approximately 120 days before deployment,
you should set up a predeployment briefing with
the fleet assistance representatives either at their
office or on your ship. During this briefing you
will receive information on CARGO cognizance
items, foreign merchandise, vendor control, and
endurance loading.
The addresses and phone numbers of fleet
assistance offices are listed in the NAVSUP P-487.
NAVY ACCOUNTING AND
FINANCE
There are three types of accounting and
finance activities with which you, as a senior
Ship’s Serviceman, should be familiar: the Navy
regional finance centers, the fleet accounting and
disbursing centers, and the personnel support
activity detachments. The mission and relation-
ship of these finance activities
supply system and to you, the
Serviceman, are discussed below.
NAVY REGIONAL FINANCE
CENTERS
Navy regional finance centers
to the Navy
senior Ship’s
(NRFCs) are
field finance activities under the command and
primary support of the Deputy Comptroller of the
Navy. Each NRFC is headed by a commanding
officer who is a Supply Corps officer. The navy
regional finance centers are located in Great
Lakes, Illinois, and in Washington, D.C.
The mission of an NRFC is to perform
regional disbursing, accounting, reporting,
administrative examinations, and other related
financial service functions for the geographical
area it supports as assigned by NAVCOMPT.
The senior Ship’s Serviceman becomes in-
volved with an NRFC primarily when there are
charges to a Ship’s Store Profits, Navy (SSPN)
functional account. The Navy Regional Finance
Center, Washington, D. C., will take care of some
of your SSPN bills associated with vending
machines (CONUS).
FLEET ACCOUNTING AND
DISBURSING CENTERS
Fleet accounting and disbursing centers
(FAADCs) are field finance centers under the
command and primary support of the Deputy
Comptroller of the Navy. There are two fleet
accounting and disbursing centers: one is in San
Diego, California; the other is in Norfolk,
Virginia.
One of the FAADC’s functions is to review
and process ship’s store returns. The Ship’s
Serviceman becomes involved with the FAADC
when the 4-month ship’s store returns are
prepared and forwarded to that activity. If errors
are discovered in the 4-month returns, a letter is
forwarded to the command requesting adjustment
or explanation. Dealers’ bills for ship’s store stock
are forwarded to an FAADC for payment. The
FMDC will reconcile the amount of the bill pro-
vided by the dealer with the amount reported by
the activity. If discrepancies are discovered, a
letter requesting adjustment or correction is
forwarded to the commanding officer of the
activity.
PERSONNEL SUPPORT
ACTIVITY DETACHMENTS
Personnel support activity detachments are
paying activities that are primarily used for the
payment of dealers’ bills. The senior Ship’s
Serviceman becomes involved with these paying
activities when dealers’ bills are forwarded to the
activities for payment. Personnel support activity
detachments are located around the world in
localities such as Yokosuka, Japan; Naples, Italy;
Rota, Spain; and Oakland, California.
At some point in your career, you have prob-
ably heard of or dealt with many of the organiza-
tions and branches you have just read about in
this chapter. In fact, as you have encountered
receipts from some of these places or ordered
materials from others, you have probably
wondered why a supply system should be so com-
plicated and elaborate. Now that you have read
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