Navy Bootcamp
September 15th, 2010
The boots pound the pavement. Cadence is called from a female whose strained voice echoes across the wide open campus. The division’s feet are finally in step after going through two months of continuous training. This is everything they’ve trained for. This is everything they’ve studied crammed into one building placed strategically in the center of the base. This is their final test. This is BATTLE STATIONS.
Eight weeks earlier, the bus pulls into Chicago’s O’Hare airport’s terminal near the baggage claim. Countless numbers of new recruits, including myself, are waiting in civilian clothes. There isn’t any yelling yet, but I know there will be soon. I am ready. We are herded onto the bus in several lines, and we all take one last look around the airport.
The majority of the bus ride is in silence, except for the video and the answering of questions by the petty officer assigned to give us our first brief on what we are about to go about to go through. Through most of my research, I knew all of the information about the subject, but I am willing to learn more.
Amidst the rules and regulations, I immediately notice a sign as the bus ride ends. It is a sign located on a small brick wall located directly underneath the American Flag, which waves proudly in the wind. “Welcome to the US Navy.”
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Enlistment Bonuses for SELRES
September 1st, 2010
Effective October 1, 2010, bonuses will be available to prior service personnel who affiliate in the Navy Reserve in the ratings, and for the period of times, listed below, and also for new enlistees who enter the New Accession Training Program (as listed in the NAVADMIN below) for a minimum of 6 years.
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Navy Chief Results
August 11th, 2010
Navy Chief Petty Officer Anchor
Until I am too old to post them, the United States Navy Master Chief, Senior Chief and Chief Petty Officer results will be posted here, each year, when they become available.
Congratulations to all the Navy Chief Petty Officer selectees!
FY-2011
The complete FY-2011 UPDATED Active Navy Master Chief Results NAVADMIN 238/10
The complete FY-2011 Active Navy Senior Chief Results NAVADMIN 237/10
The complete FY-2011 Active Navy Chief Results NAVADMIN 269/10 (PDF)
FY-2012
The complete FY-2012 Active Navy Master Chief Results NAVADMIN 155/11
The complete FY-2012 Active Navy Senior Chief Results NAVADMIN 175/11
The complete FY-2012 Reserve Chief Petty Officer Results NAVADMIN 199/11
The complete FY-2012 Active Chief Petty Officer Results NAVADMIN 233/11 (PDF Version)
For the first time in at least 12 years, the active duty CPO results are released on a Monday.
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Temporary Disability Retired List
July 21st, 2010
Over my years in recruiting, although rare, I have helped reenlist a handful of people who were placed on the Temporary Disability Retired List (TDRL). The process can be confusing; I hope this post may answer some of the more common questions.
TDRL is a program that a servicemember of the United States Armed Forces who have temporary medical issues that precludes them from being a functional member of a command may be placed if so determined by a formal Physical Evaluation Board (PEB).
Title 10 of the U.S. Code requires physical examinations to be conducted every 18 months while on the program (more frequently if diagnosed with PTSD). The intent is too ensure documentation of conditions in reference to stability, progression, and remission. All examinations are reviewed by the Physical Evaluation Board when attempting to make a decision of stability of medical conditions.
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Operation Sea Orbit
July 8th, 2010
Nuclear Task Force ONE
I am currently in Florida visiting my parents, and just like when I was a young boy, I pulled the Operation Sea Orbit cruise book off the book shelf. My Dad’s USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) cruise book of 1964 details the ship’s participation in Operation Sea Orbit, and the Mediterranean cruise that preceded it. Operation Sea Orbit was an around the world cruise completed by Nuclear Task Force ONE which consisted of the USS Enterprise, USS Long Beach (CGN-9), and the USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25).
Besides all the various photographs of the ship and aircraft from the time and all the pictures from the numerous port visits the ship enjoyed during this historic venture, I found the following information interesting. The deployment was essentially two cruises in one; the normally scheduled 6 month Mediterranean cruise and the two month around the world cruise.
Only once previously had a similar role been assigned to ships of the United States Navy when, some fifty five years ago, sixteen first line battleships were sent around the world to test their capabilities and to attract international attention to the range and modern design of American seapower. This Great White Fleet, as is was called, sailed 46,000 miles in fourteen months. On its cruise, Task Force ONE steamed 31,000 miles in sixty-five days, conducting underway air shows around Africa, through Southern Asian and Pacific waters and up the east coast of South America.
The cruise, named Operation Sea Orbit, was a conclusive demonstration of the special global mobility and self-sufficiency of nuclear powered surface ships… a display of the advanced design of contemporary American seapower around the world serving as striking evidence of the enormous power for peace possessed by the United States. It was a great diplomatic gesture as well, for the Task Force acted as a roving ambassador whose actions and abilities spoke for all the people of its country, and whose hand of welcome was extended around the world….
Enterprise’s extensive list of anchorages during the 1964 Mediterranean cruise portion (Read the rest of the article…)
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Navy Recruiting Slogans
June 27th, 2010
Join Them - Enlist in the Navy
For just about the entire time the United States Navy has been in existence, we have had slogans that were used to help recruit Sailors, but it wasn’t until 1973, that the need for a focused recruiting campaign became a true necessity. It was in 1973 that the draft had ended. It was the first year in modern times that our military had to recruit an “all volunteer force.” Each service could no longer count on conscription as a means to fill the ranks. True, the Navy really never counted on the draft, but it benefited greatly from the amount of people who sought out a Navy Recruiter before their draft number was announced, a good chunk in an effort to avoid service in the Army. Amazingly, every once and a while, when I was serving as a Recruiter in the mid-80′s, someone would walk into the recruiting station and announce that they wanted to join the Navy “before they got drafted.”
In 1973, competition between the services for finding the best qualified applicant was on. It was time for the Navy to hire a full time advertising agency. The advertising company would have to research the (Read the rest of the article…)
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Bucket List
June 6th, 2010
DEP Time Bucket List
A popular movie of 2007, The Bucket List, staring Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, and Sean Hayes, had two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and try to complete a list of things they always wanted to do before they “kicked the bucket.”
Lately, I have been hearing the term thrown around more and more. Mostly by my parents, who are still pretty young and energetic. One example is just this last Christmas, my father booked a North Atlantic cruise and they will see such countries as Estonia, Russia and more. The card he used to surprise her had written, “Mark this off the bucket list!” Incidentally, they are on the cruise right now – we haven’t heard anything yet, but I assume they are having the time of their lives.
Just the other day, I received an email from (Read the rest of the article…)
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LT John Finn USN
May 30th, 2010
Medal of Honor Citation:
CPO John Finn USN
For extraordinary heroism distinguished service, and devotion above and beyond the call of duty. During the first attack by Japanese airplanes on the Naval Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, on 7 December 1941, Lt. Finn promptly secured and manned a .50-caliber machinegun mounted on an instruction stand in a completely exposed section of the parking ramp, which was under heavy enemy machinegun strafing fire. Although painfully wounded many times, he continued to man this gun and to return the enemy’s fire vigorously and with telling effect throughout the enemy strafing and bombing attacks and with complete disregard for his own personal safety. It was only by specific orders that he was persuaded to leave his post to seek medical attention. Following first aid treatment, although obviously suffering much pain and moving with great difficulty, he returned to the squadron area and actively supervised the rearming of returning planes. His extraordinary heroism and conduct in this action were in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.
LT Finn passed away on 27 May 2010, he was 100 years old. He was, and will continue to be, a great inspiration to the Sailors of our Navy. There is a petition, (Read the rest of the article…)
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Moral Waivers for Enlistment
May 23rd, 2010
A couple of years ago, the Department of Defense (DOD) decided to try and make the waiver report uniform across all the military recruiting organizations. Previously, each service had their own way of reporting; as an example, what may have been called a misdemeanor by the Navy may have been ruled in a different category by the Marine Corps. Making the changes forced the Navy to change some of the terminology and limits of what is waiverable for enlistment to meet the DOD’s requirements. As an example of just the terminology updates, Minor Misdemeanors are now called Non-Traffic offenses, and a Felony is now considered a Major Misconduct. Also changed, was the various combination of charges that could be waived. Because of the consolidation of reporting rules, this guide should be in-line with all the military branches’ waiverable requirements.
I have been trying to avoid posting about this topic because of the numerous factors that go into a waiver determination, but because of all the email questions I do receive, police involvement and how it may have hurt enlistment opportunities must be the most common, and the most difficult to answer, I decided to give it a go. You see, just because a charge or group of (Read the rest of the article…)
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No Timeline Set for the Enlisted Female Integration
May 12th, 2010
Yesterday, I participated in my first DODLive Blogger’s Roundtable. The event featured Rear Adm. Bruner, Commander Submarine Group Ten. I am sure he would have answered any questions concerning the current state of the submarine force, but the main topic on everyone’s mind was the female Sailor integration into submarine service.
The question I was going to lead off with concerned the enlisted female integration plan. I was to go first, and the Admiral, inadvertently, had me adjust my questioning on the fly when he stated in his opening comments;
“While the Navy envisions integrating female officers, we’ll continue planning to integrate enlisted women in submarines. However, right now we don’t have a time or a set timeline to integrate enlisted females.”
Here it is; [the] Navy’s stance as to why women have not been assigned to submarines up to this point has (Read the rest of the article…)
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