One Problem With Cap and Trade
June 30th, 2009
Cap and Trade, a bill made it through the House of Representatives last week, advocated by President Obama, will set up the first mandatory U.S. greenhouse gas limits on oil refineries, power plants and other industrial facilities.
Progress Energy is a power company that generates electricity for hundreds of thousands of homes in Florida and beyond. I want to discuss the effects Cap and Trade may have on Progress Energy, specifically the power plants located at Crystal River.
Crystal River Units 1&2 are two of the oldest and dirtiest coal burning plants (Read the rest of the story…)
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911GIBill Transfer Questions Answered
June 24th, 2009
Transfer all or part of your Post 9/11 GI Bill to one or more of your eligible family members.
Service members eligible to transfer Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits are those who, at the time of approval of the request to transfer entitlement is first of all eligible for the benefit and
- (1) Has at least 6 years of service in the Armed Forces (active duty and/or Selected Reserve) on the date of election, or
- (2) Has at least 10 years of service in the Armed Forces (active duty and/or Selected Reserve) on the date of election, is precluded by either standard policy (Service or DOD) or statute from committing to 4 additional years, agrees to serve for the maximum amount of time allowed by such policy or statute, or
- (3) Is or becomes retirement eligible during the period from August 1, 2009, through August 1, 2013, and agrees to serve the additional period, if any, specified below in paragraphs 3.a. through 3.e. A Service Member is considered to be retirement eligible if he or she has completed 20 years of active Federal service or 20 qualifying years as computed under section 12732 of Title 10 U.S. Code.
- (a) For those individuals eligible for retirement on August 1, 2009, no additional service is required.
- (b) For those individuals who have an approved retirement date after August 1, 2009, and before July 1, 2010, no additional service is required.
- (c) For those individuals eligible for retirement after August 1, 2009, and before August 1, 2010, 1 year of additional service is required.
- (d) For those individuals eligible for retirement on or after August 1, 2010, and before August 1, 2011, 2 years of additional service is required.
- (e) For those individuals eligible for retirement on or after August 1, 2011, and before August 1, 2012, 3 years of additional service is required.
Members of the family eligible to receive the transferred Post-9/11 GI Bill are (Read the rest of the story…)
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Get Your MGIB $1200 Back
June 23rd, 2009
The Department of Defense released a 31 page memo to further define a number of questions about the implementation of the Post-9/11 GI-Bill (911GIBill).
You should read the entire memo yourself but I took the liberty to take out some initial areas of interest for ease. I will be making additional posts about the transferring of the GI Bill benefit and other issues in later posts;
For Service Academy grads;
Advise all officers without earlier established eligibility, following commissioning through Service Academies, with the exception of the Coast Guard Academy, or Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Scholarship Programs, that their eligibility period of active duty for Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits does not begin until they have completed their statutory obligated active service. Any active duty service after that obligated period of service may qualify as active duty service for Post-9/11 GI Bill eligibility.
Those who used student loan repayment program; (Read the rest of the story…)
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C-Sort is Now Required for SO
June 18th, 2009
After collecting and evaluating data over the last year or so it has been determined the Computerized Special Operations Resilience Test (C-SORT) in combination with Physical Screening Test (PST) scores are now required to classify Special Warfare Operator (SO) candidates. SO is the primary Navy rating for those who serve in the SEAL teams. Testing is accomplished online and is expected to take approximately one hour per test. A Navy Recruiting District Zone Supervisor will be required to administer the C-SORT. The C-SORT, along with PST, must be administered to all SO applicants prior to being classified/contracted at the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS). (Read the rest of the story…)
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Email Spam Worth Publishing
June 15th, 2009
I don’t normally do this, copy and paste something from an email into a blog post, but today I can’t help myself. I read these “jokes” and had to share them with everyone without spamming your inbox. Thank you Commander for forwarding them!
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My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels.
She asked, ‘What’s on TV?’
I said, ‘Dust.’
And then the fight started…
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My wife and I are watching “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” while we
were in bed. I turned to her and said,
“Do you want to have sex?”
“No,” she answered.
I then said, “Is that your final answer?” (Read the rest of the story…)
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Navy SRB Suspended Until FY 2010
June 11th, 2009
The good news is the Navy is retaining a very high quality workforce, the bad news is bonuses for reenlisting in FY-2009 have been suspended.
From the NAVADMIN, “Temporarily suspending the SRB program and the acceptance of any new requests for the remainder of this fiscal year. These changes are effective immediately. Those requests which have been received by pers-811 through OPINS prior to 1600 central daylight time, 10 June 2009, will still be processed IAW refs a, b and c.”
Read the NAVADMIN here; (Read the rest of the story…)
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Captured by Twitter
June 9th, 2009
Every morning I wake up, run up the stairs to my home office, fire up the CPU and open up Twitter. I do this prior to checking email, new blog comments and any web site issues.
Twitter has captured me and has yet to release it’s ransom demands.
Don’t get me wrong, Twitter – namely the people I follow, offer me a trusted portal to current events and pretty good banter. I do take the time to research each prospective person I will follow, I look at a number of things ranging from their bio, twits and web site/blog (if any) the person may have.
I’m sure, as with most things, I will budget my time better to become more productive here on my blog – until that time comes bare with me and if you don’t already, come Twit with me! NavyCS on Twitter
My last 20 Twits (short term resume) just before article publish. (Read the rest of the story…)
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Hey New Englanders!
June 3rd, 2009
Check out Boston Maggie’s article concerning the Midway Commemoration – Charlestown Navy Yard where she discribes that on Thursday morning 04 JUN 2009 all over the country there will be observances and commemorations of the Battle of Midway. (Read the rest of the story…)
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My SMART Transcript Evaluation
June 2nd, 2009
I have been planning on attending the University of Memphis to utilize the Post 9/11 GI-Bill I have recently been approved for. Realizing the university was about a 30 minute drive from my house and the fact that I can transfer credits (credits earned while completing an Associates degree) from the community college I am seriously considering attendance at Southwest Tennessee Community College, a mere 10 minute jaunt from the homestead.
Today I had my Navy (Read the rest of the story…)
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26 Years Ago Today
May 28th, 2009
It was a Saturday night, 23 April 1983, Luther and I stationed aboard the USS Forrestal and both made the trek from Mayport, FL to the Philadelphia shipyard for the FIDs service life extension program (SLEP) decided to head out and explore the South Jersey. Our ship had not been in the area but a few weeks and we were all still getting our bearings.
As we navigated one of the local road ways it became quite apparent that I was not going to be able to continue without a pit stop. My bladder felt as if it was going to burst. Luckily (Read the rest of the story…)
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