RANGE OF RESPONSIBILITIES
Your range of responsibilities as the bulk storeroom custodian may differ from one ship to the next. Your actual responsibilities will be the same, but the size of the ship's store operation and the number of storerooms will determine the difficulty of your tasks. You may be assigned to a ship that has only 1 bulk storeroom aboard, or a large aircraft carrier that has 10 or more bulk storerooms. When there is more than one bulk storeroom, the ship's store officer will normally number each bulk storeroom 1, 2, 3, and so forth. However, on a large ship such as an aircraft carrier with 10 or more storerooms it may create confusion to number the storerooms in this order. The ship's store officer may elect to number the bulk storerooms using the compartment and frame number of the ship where they are located (for example: bulk storeroom numbers 2-325-0-A, 3-405-1-A, 01-544-1-A, and so forth). On a large ship with several storerooms, the ship's store officer will normally split up the storerooms between different custodians for

Figure 3-1.-Stock arrangement.

accountability purposes. It would be unfair and unrealistic to assign one person the responsibility for so many storerooms, so the ship's store officer usually assigns one custodian the responsibility for about three storerooms. The number of store-rooms each custodian will be responsible for depends on the manpower availability and the overall number of storerooms aboard ship.