Several organizations participated in squadron reorganization. Primary responsibility nevertheless falls on the Bureau of Aeronautics because it repeatedly supplied the designation schemes placed before the other decision-makers. The cooking analogy separates contributing to a policy from providing the ingredients that make the policy possible. The distinction offers a compact way to assess institutional accountability when responsibility is distributed across a naval bureaucracy.
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Assigning responsibility for squadron reorganization
Although several departments shaped squadron policy, the Bureau of Aeronautics remained chiefly accountable because it supplied the schemes others modified and approved.