How About Some Jazz Music In Memphis!
March 31st, 2009
If you live in the Memphis area I highly recommend you attend Rakenn’s Thursday night jazz session. It is truly an “old school” relaxing event. It features LIVE music and even open mic poetry reading – yea, that’s right, poetry, it is what us college students do!
Place: “The Center” on Highland (Read the rest of the article…)
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Been a Busy Pay Day
March 31st, 2009
Today has been a busy do for those of us that try and keep up with all the pay issues that come up.
Today was a big day in the United Kingdom as their government announced it accepted the recommendation of the Armed Forces’ Pay Review Body of 2.8% basic military salary increase for officers and all other ranks. The pay raise will take effect April 1, 2009.
Here in the United States, our Senate Armed Services Committee (Read the rest of the article…)
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Happy First Year Anniversary!
March 29th, 2009
My Nuke son and his wife are experiencing much of what Japan has to offer. In this video they give a tour of their hotel room Kyoto. (Read the rest of the article…)
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So I Called Up the Captain
March 23rd, 2009
The internet is a wonderful thing.
Just the other day I received a friend request on Facebook from a person I hadn’t seen or heard from in over 20 years. This isn’t some long lost high school friend (although I get those too), I am talking about a friend who is from another country I met while attending a NATO school on the Italian military base Borgo Piave in the middle of nowhere outside the town of Latina, Italy.
SATCOM Classmates
The school we classed up for would keep us there for about 3 months, the classes we attended prepared us for working on NATO’s satellite ground terminals. We arrived in May 1988, the class was made up of people from many NATO countries but five of us formed a bond I recall often and do cherish the memories.
They called the five of us the Beastie Boys. Three from the United Kingdom, one each from England, Wales and Scotland, one Canadian and myself.
Arriving in May (Read the rest of the article…)
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Navy Stabilizes Force
March 19th, 2009
First comment is, Add the American Forces Press Service with the Navy Times that should capitalize Sailor!
Prologue: When retention and recruiting do well it has been the manpower gurus natural response to pull billets from recruiting duty, reducing the workforce by as much as 25% or more. Then when times get tough the knee jerks the other way and those same manpower gurus pump the force, seemingly over night, back to the numbers we see today. Often times the increase in the size of the force is too late. One example is 1997 and there are many others.
Hopefully we have learned our lessons of the past.
Onward.
At the end of the current Navy force reduction, manning of ratings (Read the rest of the article…)
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My 2009 NCAA Bracket
March 19th, 2009
Figure I should post this before the first game starts – hope its big enough for you to read :) (Read the rest of the article…)
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NIA Tracking Modification
March 18th, 2009
Last week I announced the NavyCS Industrial Average (NIA) where I purchased stocks with the idea of using the gain to determine the amount of money my wife and I will donate to Soldiers Angels Valour IT program.
I am not (Read the rest of the article…)
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NEW Lower SRB Levels
March 12th, 2009
The $90,000 cap for Selective Reenlistment Bonus (SRB) and new lower multiples will become effective 1 May 2009. All SRB award levels NOT listed below are reduced or remain at zero.
The drop in levels, I would think, are not budget related as much as manning levels in the rates that experienced a drop. The SRB has always been a retention tool, retention good in a rating – little to no bonus. Retention and recruiting are at levels we have not seen in years.
The NAVADMIN; (Read the rest of the article…)
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CNRC to Become CNETC!
March 11th, 2009
Excellent choice. Congratulations Sir!
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead announced today the following assignments:
Rear Adm. Joseph F. Kilkenny will be assigned as commander, Naval Education and Training Command, Pensacola, Fla. Kilkenny is currently serving as commander, Navy Recruiting Command, Millington, Tenn.
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Politics is Why You Should Buy
March 11th, 2009
President Obama
President Obama has recently proposed a budget outline for 2010 that contains some programs he feels will balance social issues with growth in our nations economy. His political capital will not be enough to carry the day if the stock market hangs in mediocrity.
Individuals are starting to wake up to the fact that their investments into 401K have lost much more than proposed tax cuts for those who make less than $250,000 will gain. President Obama’s political capital will have to remain at (Read the rest of the article…)
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