 Several of the officers and non @-@ commissioned officers in charge of the main gun turret crews believed that Skelley 's and Costigan 's proposed experiments were dangerous , especially because of the age of and numerous maintenance problems with the main guns and gun turrets . Meyer complained to Lieutenant Commander Roger John Kissinger , Iowa 's chief weapons officer , about the proposed experiments , but Kissinger refused to convey the concerns to Moosally or halt the experiments . 
