Which ships received the best junior officers?

Which ships tended to receive the best junior officers: battleships, cruisers, or destroyers?

Important battleships and destroyers generally received stronger officers, while quiet coastal-defence assignments offered less demanding work.

The better junior officers were generally sent to important battleships and destroyers rather than inactive or locally confined vessels. A coastal-defence assignment offered fewer chances to affect complex long-range operations and could absorb an additional officer without much risk. Ships expected to deploy, represent the country, and sustain demanding machinery needed more dependable people. Kimmel's assignment to USS Georgia therefore suggests professional trust, although personnel practices were never perfectly uniform.