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Originally Posted by LoBlo
Why not move the throttleman up to the control room? Seems like a good idea to me 
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The Throtlleman can cause HUGE issues in reactor operations. He is the one who was the most direct input into reactor power output. This would be BAD.. You HAVE to be able to see key guages on the reactor control panel to do your job properly. In fact, that is why Manuvering is located AFT. Control tells us how fast and or how queit it wants to go, we take care of the rest.
oh lord, every nuke who read that sentence shuddered in the seats.
For all of you non-quals out there there are several things that need to be addressed here about keeping major watchstations SEPERATE from the OOD. One, the OOD is concerned with the tactical situation he is operating in. He respondes to the input provided by the ellisted watchstanders. He manevers the ship and engages the enemy.
Putting the sonar operators in control is bad not only because of the noise concerns. The stacks HAVE to be able to communicate to cross-verify information. While I was a nuke, I had the please of sitting on the BSB stack more than once. Facinating experience let me tell you. There are times when one stack was alerted to a possible contact by another stack. Working together, they were able to find the bad guy even faster. The REAL bad thing is the OOD then would be able to walk over to a display and ask 'What is that dot on this display. I think it is....'
He would stop relying on the training and effectiveness of his enlisted operators and start to make his own decisions based on his own skill and training. He would think he could do a BETTER job at random times.
He would LOSE tactical control because he would have the ability to walk over and make his own judgements based on his immediate thought process. He would become SUBJECTIVE rather than OBJECTIVE.
In the older boats he could get to sonar yes, but not with ease of having it in the same compartment 3 feet away. That seperation of a different compartment is psychologically HUGE.
I for one would not like to have a OOD that can be distracted by making his own conclusions based on his own observations.