Admiral "reassigned"

[Swanee]

And, of course, there will be different Navy and Marine versions of the same XYZ training...and Marines assigned to Navy commands will have to endure both versions.

And, of course, if you're name's not on the roster(s)...

And by different versions you mean exactly the same except for the addition of the USMC Seal on the first slide next to the DON one.

This was starting to go away at VT-21 just before I left. I hope it continues that way, but I am not planning on it.

 

[Recovering LSO]

Part of the problem, in my own ignorant opinion, is the entrepreneurial paradigm-shift of the military's leadership over the last few decades. Suddenly all officers O-4 and above (gross exaggeration) have an MBA and seem to think they can cut their teeth in leadership by employing the methods they read in their post-graduate texts

agree strongly with bolded section.

 

[Brett327]

That all makes perfect sense Brett, but we have never been ready for the next war we have fought (Gulf I maybe being the exception)......and I doubt we'll be ready for the next. Our strength has been the ability to adapt.

I agree with that completely. We have been historically horrible at predicting what the next kind of war will look like, but that doesn't mean we're just along for the ride and incapable of making educated guesses at what it won't look like. We just have this crowd that seems to yearn to return to the WWII era because they think it was somehow a simpler, more direct means to an end. I would submit that their imagined nostalgia probably isn't shared by those who were exposed to four+ years of industrial scale meat grinding.

 

[Catmando]

Ask Joffre how his Plan 17 - especially how his stubborn adherence to it - worked out in WWI.

(Also, how were his generals trained?)

 

[Renegade One]

...the CO, Smadge, or CMC (not to be delegated)....

Assume from context that "Smadge" is new-speak for XO? Does it de-code somehow?

 

[KBayDog]

Assume from context that "Smadge" is new-speak for XO? Does it de-code somehow?

 

[Gatordev]

Assume from context that "Smadge" is new-speak for XO? Does it de-code somehow?

If you sound it out, you'll get it. "Sergent(s) Major." I think in the Marine world, the XO is only the guy who minimally upgrades the Yuma BOQ. I keed!

 

[KBayDog]

If you sound it out, you'll get it. "Sergent(s) Major."

Or, as people like me (who like to get under the senior enlisteds' skins) like to say, "Sergeant Majors."

 

[Jim123]

Or, as people like me (who like to get under the senior enlisteds' skins) like to say, "Sergeant Majors."

Tsk, tsk

 

[Gatordev]

Or, as people like me (who like to get under the senior enlisteds' skins) like to say, "Sergeant Majors."

Grammar(s) is important. Just ask the Master Chief that I know who likes to sit outside the NEX correcting flight suit "errors."

"Master Chief, it doesn't actually say that...."

"They put out a correction in the NEW message, sir."

"Ugh. Enjoy your Rubios."

Perspective. Something I strive for...and something I wish others had.

 

[BACONATOR]

Grammar(s) is important. Just ask the Master Chief that I know who likes to sit outside the NEX correcting flight suit "errors."

"Master Chief, it doesn't actually say that...."

"They put out a correction in the NEW message, sir."

"Ugh. Enjoy your Rubios."

Perspective. Something I strive for...and something I wish others had.

Wait, what? Like people actually do that? Does he hang out with new ENSes trolling for salutes? If you have nothing better to do, I'm sure there's a bumbling O-4 somewhere nearby who can assign some line of sight tasking....

 

[squorch2]

Perspective. Something I strive for...and something I wish others had.

Well-timed usage of "okay" has done alright thus far on das boot.

 

[Pugs]

From the JCS Chairman, FWIW....
"The speculation that General Carter Ham is departing Africa Command (AFRICOM) due to events in Benghazi, Libya on 11 September 2012 is absolutely false. General Ham's departure is part of routine succession planning that has been on going since July. He continues to serve in AFRICOM with my complete confidence.

What's the norm for a COCOM command tour length? He's only been there since Mar 11 making this a 1 1/2 year tour. Previous Gen Ward served almost 4 but he was the plankowner too.

 

[Brett327]

Gen Petraeus wasn't at CENTCOM all that long, and he certainly wasn't fired. Tour lengths vary for all kinds of reasons (good and bad). I think we have to take the Chairman at his word.

 

[Fog]

What's the norm for a COCOM command tour length? He's only been there since Mar 11 making this a 1 1/2 year tour. Previous Gen Ward served almost 4 but he was the plankowner too.

And Gen Ward got sh*tcanned for grievously over-spending & gun-decking his expense reports that got him an early retirement & reduction in grade, I believe.