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[Recovering LSO]

Violating Rule Number Two of the interwebs, I read the comments... Yikes.

FTA: "Two independent reviews of the collisions made a variety of recommendations to stem systemic shortcomings plaguing the service. However, the reviews didn’t address the two most significant factors negatively affecting mission readiness today: A widening dichotomy between policymakers and those who execute policy, and the souring relationship between junior enlisted sailors and an increasingly indolent chiefs mess."

 

[robav8r]

Violating Rule Number Two of the interwebs, I read the comments... Yikes.

FTA: "Two independent reviews of the collisions made a variety of recommendations to stem systemic shortcomings plaguing the service. However, the reviews didn’t address the two most significant factors negatively affecting mission readiness today: A widening dichotomy between policymakers and those who execute policy, and the souring relationship between junior enlisted sailors and an increasingly indolent chiefs mess."

Holy shit, "Yikes" is right !!! The CNO certainly has his hands full these days . . . .

 

[nittany03]

Violating Rule Number Two of the interwebs, I read the comments... Yikes.

FTA: "Two independent reviews of the collisions made a variety of recommendations to stem systemic shortcomings plaguing the service. However, the reviews didn’t address the two most significant factors negatively affecting mission readiness today: A widening dichotomy between policymakers and those who execute policy, and the souring relationship between junior enlisted sailors and an increasingly indolent chiefs mess."

Says an E-5. Not that his rate makes him right or wrong, but talk about “the mouse that roared.”

 

[RadicalDude]

Violating Rule Number Two of the interwebs, I read the comments... Yikes.

FTA: "Two independent reviews of the collisions made a variety of recommendations to stem systemic shortcomings plaguing the service. However, the reviews didn’t address the two most significant factors negatively affecting mission readiness today: A widening dichotomy between policymakers and those who execute policy, and the souring relationship between junior enlisted sailors and an increasingly indolent chiefs mess."

Please stop hiding your links, RLSO.

 

[RadicalDude]

Says an E-5. Not that his rate makes him right or wrong, but talk about “the mouse that roared.”

Huge balls on the kid. Love it.

 

[Brett327]

FWIW, the longer I'm in this business, the more I accept that some people will never be happy about their (insert circumstances), and the Chiefs are out to get them, and the MMCPO is an abusive tyrant.

 

[nittany03]

FWIW, the longer I'm in this business, the more I accept that some people will never be happy about their (insert circumstances), and the Chiefs are out to get them, and the MMCPO is an abusive tyrant.

Isn't that the old cliche? The Sailors are all supposed to hate the MMCPO and love the CMC?

 

[Flash]

FWIW, the longer I'm in this business, the more I accept that...and the MMCPO is an abusive tyrant.

And once in a while that is actually true, like the MMCPO in my squadron who went to Admiral's Mast.

 

[Recovering LSO]

Happy birthday tailhookers!

January 18th, 1911 Eugene Ely hands his beer to his bros and says, "watch this."

 

[Recovering LSO]

Responding vs Reacting.

 

[Recovering LSO]

What the Navy Can Learn From the Fyre Festival. - USNI Blog.

"In addition to lacking any moral compass, concert organizer McFarland embodies the worst traits of a leader who is more interested in the status associated with his job than getting the job done. The desire to be someone, as opposed to do something, is a hallmark of toxic leaders, and the convergence of status and lack of supervision only serves to reinforce negative behavior. The number of officers indicted in connection to Fat Leonard are a testament to the corrosive influence of access and status seeking. Senior officers, after all, are no longer furnished with someone whispering “memento mori” in their ears."

 

[jmcquate]

 

[Randy Daytona]

I try and catch a few different analysts when on the highway. Listened to Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia Group on the Sam Harris show
Making Sense with Sam Harris #133 - Globalism on the Brink (with Ian Bremmer) and Robert Kaplan: The Return of Marco Polo's World: War Strategy & U.S. Interests in the 21st Century

Any other suggested videos?

 

[Recovering LSO]

Message To The Mess: Earn Back The Sailors’ Trust

What I’m about to say is directed to the Navy’s Chiefs’ Mess and there are a few of you who will take it personally, and to you I say, good. Many more of you will question the medium and the audience and wonder why this discussion has to take place openly. My answer to that...

blog.usni.org

There’s a lot of goodness in this essay - and though it’s written for the Chief’s Mess, there are some nuggets in there for everyone.

 

[deus ex smackinya]

Message To The Mess: Earn Back The Sailors’ Trust

What I’m about to say is directed to the Navy’s Chiefs’ Mess and there are a few of you who will take it personally, and to you I say, good. Many more of you will question the medium and the audience and wonder why this discussion has to take place openly. My answer to that...

blog.usni.org

There’s a lot of goodness in this essay - and though it’s written for the Chief’s Mess, there are some nuggets in there for everyone.

Great read!