General News (3)

Friendly Reminder

March 7th, 2009

Every year at 0200 on the second Sunday in March the United States starts daylight savings time. Before you hit the sack tonight “spring” your clocks forward one hour, well, unless you live in Arizona or Hawaii that is. (Read the rest of the story…)

Sailor For Life

March 2nd, 2009

OK, Navy Times, capitalize Sailor! Of all journalistic publications on this planet I figured you would voluntarily follow the lead of the Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton when he decreed back in 1994 the word Sailor when used in Naval correspondence and referring to Sailors of the U.S. Navy.

Rant over, on to some news.

Merging to a single detailing system for Sailors sounds like a good idea to me but does bring up a lot of questions. (Read the rest of the story…)

Commissaries Stop Selling-Redeeming CertifiChecks

February 27th, 2009

To help get the word out here is a notice sent to Commissary store directors today.

ATTENTION STORE DIRECTORS/CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGERS

Subject: IMMEDIATE ATTENTION OPERATIONAL ALERT # 13 CertifiChecks Store Directors, Please ensure this information is disseminated to your customer service employees immediately and actions 1-5 are completed by COB today.

Effective immediately, due to an extremely difficult economic environment, CertifiChecks, Inc. has ceased operations.

1. Commissaries are to stop selling and redeeming CertifiChecks
immediately.
2. Remove all door and register decals related to CertifiChecks.
3. Post the attached signage, “Notice to our Customers” in locations
highly visible to the customer.
4. Provide customers wishing to redeem CertifiChecks with the following information:

If you have CertifiCheck gift certificates which you would like to submit for potential reimbursement, please remit to:

CertifiCheck, Inc.,
Attention: Redemption Department,
435 Shoup Mill Rd,
Dayton, Ohio 45414.

5. Remove any references to CertifiChecks from your store web page.
6. Store Directors must notify installation command, chaplains, and
other installation activities that may be impacted.
7. Stores are to inventory (count) the number of unsold CertifiChecks
on hand and return them by Federal Express or United Parcel Service
(UPS) or registered U.S. Mail to:

DeCA Headquarters
Attn: RM, Accounting
1300 E Avenue
Fort Lee, VA 23801

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5 Years Old!

February 16th, 2009

My web site hobby is now 5 years old today (the day I registered the domain navycs.com)!

We’ll be drinking champagne tonight! (Read the rest of the story…)

USS Enterprise Numa Numa Sailor Slain

February 6th, 2009

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family.

From the Navy Times;

By Andrew Tilghman – Staff writer
A 39-year-old Sailor and one-time producer of a popular online video known as the “Enterprise Numa Numa” was killed in his Maryland home in what police say was a murder-suicide involving his girlfriend.

His video; (Read the rest of the story…)

Monster Data Stolen

February 4th, 2009

I received this email today that tells me, “…certain contact and account data were taken, including user IDs and passwords, email addresses, names, phone numbers, and some basic demographic data.”. Well, this isn’t good. Beyond the USAJobs.gov web site, Monster Worldwide Inc, NYSE:MWW (Monster.com ) also maintains the database for a site near and dear to our hearts, the famous, Military.com.

Thousands of our nations military has signed up for accounts (Read the rest of the story…)

Line In the Sand

February 2nd, 2009

Today President Obama has provided direction to the Pentagon to cap the 2010 budget request for defense at $527 billion. It is an increase over last years number and is based on the Bush administrations input for 2010 back in February 2009.

Now it is time to start apportioning out priorities within the budget (Read the rest of the story…)

2009 Recovery Bill

January 25th, 2009

I read most of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the bill making its way through congress which is supposed to stimulate the economy in such a way that we will avert certain doom. If this document is our saving grace I suggest you start limbering up so you can reach your head around and kiss your own ass good-bye – you won’t be able to afford to pay someone else to do it.

Reading the draft I quickly came to the realization that most everything costs about $300 million – it seems to be an arbitrary amount thrown at just about everything. Another eye catcher (Read the rest of the story…)

Discovery Network and the Navy

January 14th, 2009

A NAVADMIN was released today which describes a number of projects to produce documentaries for the Discovery network which includes the Discovery Channel, Military and Science Channels.

Some specifics from the NAVADMIN are Discovery will produce an episode of their technology based show called “Prototype This”, that will focus on the littoral combat ship. I would assume filming of this segment would take place aboard the USS Freedom (LCS-1), it is the first ship of the Littoral Combat Ship class and was commissioned on November 8, 2008 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (day before my Wife’s Birthday!). Also among the projects (Read the rest of the story…)

USAA Email Scam

January 10th, 2009

Be on the look out for one of the latest scam emails making its way around. There are more than likely other variants of the same but they all attempt to do one thing – have you follow a link in the email and sign into your USAA online account so they can grab your info.

Here is one example I received today;

Account: USAA MasterCard
Date: 08/01/2009

We’d like to inform you that your secure mailbox has 1 new message.

Please visit Online Banking and select the message section tab to read your message(s).

(The message center contains only important information about your account and online banking.)

Copyright © 2009, USAA.
Use of the term member does not convey any legal, eligibility or ownership rights

Personally (Read the rest of the story…)