Leadership

FY 2010 CPO Selects

July 31st, 2009

Congratulations to all the FY 2010 selectees! And I would like to send a special BZ out to all the Navy Counselor Chief Petty Officer – Career Recruiting Force (CRF)!

For the rest of the 2010 list here is a copy of the NAVADMIN (Read the rest of the story…)

The Navy Ethos

November 12th, 2008

From a recent NAVADMIN describing our Navy’s Ethos. An ethos identifies distinguishing character, culture, or beliefs of a group or institution. Navy Ethos is designed to communicate a set of beliefs appropriate and important to the more than 400,000 military and 180,000 civilian personnel who share a common bond of service in the Navy, regardless of background, personal experience, or position.

The Navy Ethos: (Read the rest of the story…)

Boot Camp Battle Stations

October 1st, 2008

A video showing “Battle Stations” at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes. I was able to tour the process a couple of years ago before the ship was completed. Definitely not the boot-camp I attended, this is MUCH better!

battle stations

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Has Google Replaced the Mess?

August 20th, 2008

Well, is this a sign of the times? Take a look at a search term someone used to find my web site. Is this a sign of the times? Has the Mess been replaced by Google? WOW! (Read the rest of the story…)

Price of Recruiting Just Went Up

June 19th, 2008

Back in 2004 Navy Recruiting Command commissioned a couple of studies. LMI to take a look at overall effectiveness of recruiting commands structure and an RCI study to evaluate the effectiveness of headquarter operations.

The LMI study provided the recommendations needed to reduce the number of recruiting district headquarters to the current 26 and also facilitated the closing of regions central and south and the moving of regions north and west’s headquarters to Millington, TN.

If I remember correctly the RCI study was completed but only gave a second “thumbs-up” to the LMI plan. Both studies were expensive but predicted massive savings in logistics and personnel and fell in line with what the headquarters staff and the Navy wanted to have happen in the first place.

Well, it appears Navy Recruiting Command (Read the rest of the story…)

Politics are Amazing

April 29th, 2008

Governmental politics is something that will always amaze me. Watching past elections and of course the current one I have to ask myself why anyone would run – it’s kinda like deciding to go on the television show “Judge Judy”, you know that no matter what, you are going to get your ass handed to you.

After reading “The Commercial Appeal” here in Memphis today I feel as I must make full disclosure before I continue – in a couple letters to the editor about this topic people felt compelled to tell the readers what race of human being they are…

So, not that it should matter, (Read the rest of the story…)

Personal Responsibility In Daily Efforts

December 17th, 2007

Donna, the author of DazzlinDonna, wrote a recent post called, “The Essence of You” which tasks you with trying to answer, “Who do I want to be?”.

Before you can determine the path it really does make sense to answer Donna’s first question of, “Who are you?”. It really should be the starting point of any self improvement endeavor – having a pretty good understanding on where you stand on life’s big stage is important.

Are we even fully qualified to answer the question of who we are? (Read the rest of the story…)

Mixed Messages

October 29th, 2007

Grow up to be an Adult?

We attempt to teach our children, well most of us do, to grow up to be responsible adults. We attempt to choose our words carefully and to help them make sense out of the vast world around them. We don’t teach our children that a couch is actually called a stove, we don’t point to a deer and call it a bear. We understand that every action we (Read the rest of the story…)

Well Said Marine

August 13th, 2007

Nothing I could add, this Marine says it all.

Semper Fi

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CPO Initiation-Transition a Decade Later

August 8th, 2007

My how time flies. I will be recalling the process for the first time from retirement, weird.

It has been about 10 years now that becoming a CPO has moved from an “initiation” to a “transition”. Here is a very brief look at some of the contrasts between then and now.

Now - After hearing of the list each CPO would make attempts to call each selectee and congratulate them.
Then - New slugs would call every CPO in the command to introduce themselves, the CPO would congratulate and share some small bit of advice.

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