I’ll add for the edification of all that eNavFit has been an unmitigated disaster of an application through BoL. It doesn’t like MS Edge for certain functions, and is painfully slow compared to any other website. As in multiple minute load times for routine tasks of examining and writing evaluations.
In my case the statement would be “Command has had no sexual assaults in the last twelve months, and GMC continues to support and implement Navy EOSH policies.” It’s a waste of space, just as requiring reporting senior’s cumulative average on all our evals.
Are you suggesting that “Command has had no sexual assaults in the last twelve months, and GMC continues to support and implement Navy EOSH policies.” is little more than uttering some platitude?
Looks like we have been under the "interesting times" Chinese Curse for quite a while now. The US Army War College curriculum has been set by the Speaker of the House of Representatives for years. Under Speaker Pelosi, future flag officers were challenged to analyze and argue on the lessons for military leadership from the film "The Devil Wears Prada"...perhaps this was a factor as to why Mark Milley and others could not win a war yet focused on unimportant "social justice" tropes. I don't know if Speaker Johnson has ended this "assignment" or not...but I am pretty certain that Fox Conner, his protege Dwight Eisenhower and their cohort did not have to endure such frivolous and destructive senior military education.
Phil: Back around 1990, at a corporate training session on leadership, our group watched "Twelve O'clock High," starring Gregory Peck as the new commander of a battle-weary squadron of B-17 pilots, based in England (the aerial combat scenes were taken from real combat footage; hairy stuffy). Some years later, I showed the same film to the team at a start-up biotech company I was running. "The Devil Wears Prada" is definitely more relevant than "Twelve O'clock High" if you want to run the bridge of a Navy ship like a women's fashion magazine.
Thanks Bill! I appreciate your perspectives in the corporate sector and salute your entrepreneurship starting a bio-tech firm! Showcasing decision-making over 1943 Germany sounds like a very sobering case study for any leadership team. By the way, didn't Peck demonstrate a first-class butt-chewing to one of his subordinates? As for the "Prada" example, I didn't consider that alternative motive... you are probably spot on with that assessment as well. Thanks for sharing!
Phil: Yes, Peck's character chewed out a subordinate (a B-17 pilot) for going soft and caring too much about his crew. Powerful stuff which probably would not fly these days, neither with film audiences nor with the military.
Speaking of "Twelve O'clock High", as a junior sailor I saw a DVD of it, and sent it to my dad for his birthday, as he joked it was his favorite move for how often it was shown in training.
12 O'Clock High was a fixture in DivO SWOS in the early 80's. As I understand it there is no DivO SWOS anymore, is that true? Last I heard the lads and lassies got a box of CD's/DVD's and called it good.
Any movie with Anne Hathaway is worth watching and don’t blame her for the liar and traitor Milley.
It actually is a good movie especially when she is told to shape up or ship out as there is a job to be done and no one is going to give you an A on your paper.
The movie is really a modern version of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.
Oh whoa... NAVFIT98A! Another trip down memory Lane. It's still around? Not in the Museum of Natural History, next to exhibits of extinct Pliocene mammals? Still, I remember way back then. Navy was going all "computerzzz" on us. We were going to get networked & stuff; and I mean like you've never been networked before. Do more with less. Minimal manning on ships (cuz the word "man" was still okay). Cyber-hubris, much of it. Still, and decades after it all, I remain eternally grateful for one particular directive from an old CO... "If you don't have an email address, get one."
Byron, the DD-214 and 250 are still around. And you know people have to been attempting new forms/major revisions to get that EoT award and yet the basic soundness of the form survives./s
I have an old Win2000 machine in storage, but I recycled everything older. Of course, there are still places using 8" floppy drives, so it could be worse. Hopefully DOGE will identify and be able to get the Administration to push through workable, reliable, modernization.
About 15 years ago I looked around my basement and saw seven or eight unused computers and said "why would I pay $1000 in real money for some made up electronic thing when I could just make them myself if I wasn't lazy" and then I never made any Bitcoin anyway.
Well, I guess NMCI (Not Much Comes In) didn't always actually slow things down by not working as intended. Two wrongs don't make a right, but three or four might.../sarcasm off.
You know what would lead to “psychological safety?” Fire drills. Flooding drills. Three a day. Graded fire drills REFTRA style. Nothing leads to psychological safety better than knowing you are on a ship whose crew is well-trained in the art and science of DC.
Another Harvard professor (at the Business School, 1990s and forward) whose courses and publications on "change management" were all the rage was Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Prof. Moss Kanter was a sociologist. One of her early books was "Commitment & Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective." A whole generation of America's top business and government leaders was fed this stuff and Prof. Kanter was an idol in the female business world.
One of the deeper issues is that this update to the instruction must have been in the works for over a year at NAVPERS and the momentum of routing up through the Front Office was not halted when the winds of change occurred on 05NOV24 or hell, even after SECDEF was confirmed and his mind was known to anyone who cared to listen. To me it screams either indifference or worse....
Fun fact, RADM Brown was NAVWAR and at a command wide virtual town hall he brought up the fact that everyone complains about NMCI being terrible to which he responded "we are NMCI" and that NAVWAR has the responsibility to make it better. So much for that. Also, a GS stood up and asked about continued 100% telework and he said that he didn't see us (NAVWAR) ever going back to in-person work. I guess that aged like raw milk on a hot Georgia day.
I’ll add for the edification of all that eNavFit has been an unmitigated disaster of an application through BoL. It doesn’t like MS Edge for certain functions, and is painfully slow compared to any other website. As in multiple minute load times for routine tasks of examining and writing evaluations.
In my case the statement would be “Command has had no sexual assaults in the last twelve months, and GMC continues to support and implement Navy EOSH policies.” It’s a waste of space, just as requiring reporting senior’s cumulative average on all our evals.
Are you suggesting that “Command has had no sexual assaults in the last twelve months, and GMC continues to support and implement Navy EOSH policies.” is little more than uttering some platitude?
That's what it'll be in truth. If most of the CHIEFEVALS say something along those lines, there is no benefit to having it.
It should be expected and only noted in the remarks when it either fails to meet the standards or exceeds them.
I agree, but the Millington Nomenklatura wants otherwise.
In an ideal world, a tour at Millington would require OBLISERVE for sea duty. No more retirements from there.
Congrats. You finally published one that was sooo "Inside Navy" that I was pretty much reading everything and understanding nothing.
"Blah bla blah blah, Armorer, "blah blah blah." You Larsoned me. 😁😄
Looks like we have been under the "interesting times" Chinese Curse for quite a while now. The US Army War College curriculum has been set by the Speaker of the House of Representatives for years. Under Speaker Pelosi, future flag officers were challenged to analyze and argue on the lessons for military leadership from the film "The Devil Wears Prada"...perhaps this was a factor as to why Mark Milley and others could not win a war yet focused on unimportant "social justice" tropes. I don't know if Speaker Johnson has ended this "assignment" or not...but I am pretty certain that Fox Conner, his protege Dwight Eisenhower and their cohort did not have to endure such frivolous and destructive senior military education.
Phil: Back around 1990, at a corporate training session on leadership, our group watched "Twelve O'clock High," starring Gregory Peck as the new commander of a battle-weary squadron of B-17 pilots, based in England (the aerial combat scenes were taken from real combat footage; hairy stuffy). Some years later, I showed the same film to the team at a start-up biotech company I was running. "The Devil Wears Prada" is definitely more relevant than "Twelve O'clock High" if you want to run the bridge of a Navy ship like a women's fashion magazine.
Thanks Bill! I appreciate your perspectives in the corporate sector and salute your entrepreneurship starting a bio-tech firm! Showcasing decision-making over 1943 Germany sounds like a very sobering case study for any leadership team. By the way, didn't Peck demonstrate a first-class butt-chewing to one of his subordinates? As for the "Prada" example, I didn't consider that alternative motive... you are probably spot on with that assessment as well. Thanks for sharing!
Phil: Yes, Peck's character chewed out a subordinate (a B-17 pilot) for going soft and caring too much about his crew. Powerful stuff which probably would not fly these days, neither with film audiences nor with the military.
Speaking of "Twelve O'clock High", as a junior sailor I saw a DVD of it, and sent it to my dad for his birthday, as he joked it was his favorite move for how often it was shown in training.
I still have not seen it!
12 O'Clock High was a fixture in DivO SWOS in the early 80's. As I understand it there is no DivO SWOS anymore, is that true? Last I heard the lads and lassies got a box of CD's/DVD's and called it good.
We watched it as part of DivO SWOS when I attended in late 1985 - early 1986.
that puts you 3-4 years after me.
Not to be a wet blanket - but it was closer to WWII than to today when you attended! It's about equal for me. Yeah, we're that old.
Any movie with Anne Hathaway is worth watching and don’t blame her for the liar and traitor Milley.
It actually is a good movie especially when she is told to shape up or ship out as there is a job to be done and no one is going to give you an A on your paper.
The movie is really a modern version of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.
Good point on Anne...and Milley is a traitor!
I thought it was decent, but really a female-friendly version of Swimming with Sharks, which was excellent (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114594/).
I recall a parody that was significantly even more rude, but I can't seem to find a link to it.
Can't wait until the pictures of Miley in lipstick & high heels come out.
At the moment annual SAPR training is on hold. It’s locked and won’t allow you to start the course. It’s likely not a blessing.
Agh!! The enemy within persists.
Under every rock. Every. Single. Rock.
Oh whoa... NAVFIT98A! Another trip down memory Lane. It's still around? Not in the Museum of Natural History, next to exhibits of extinct Pliocene mammals? Still, I remember way back then. Navy was going all "computerzzz" on us. We were going to get networked & stuff; and I mean like you've never been networked before. Do more with less. Minimal manning on ships (cuz the word "man" was still okay). Cyber-hubris, much of it. Still, and decades after it all, I remain eternally grateful for one particular directive from an old CO... "If you don't have an email address, get one."
Byron, the DD-214 and 250 are still around. And you know people have to been attempting new forms/major revisions to get that EoT award and yet the basic soundness of the form survives./s
I have an old Win2000 machine in storage, but I recycled everything older. Of course, there are still places using 8" floppy drives, so it could be worse. Hopefully DOGE will identify and be able to get the Administration to push through workable, reliable, modernization.
I have an Apple IIe somewhere...
I've got a WIN95 laptop I'd be willing to donate to the cause.
Though modem is strictly dial up...
About 15 years ago I looked around my basement and saw seven or eight unused computers and said "why would I pay $1000 in real money for some made up electronic thing when I could just make them myself if I wasn't lazy" and then I never made any Bitcoin anyway.
oops
sounds like, “Introverts of the world unite! But separately and at home.”
Well, I guess NMCI (Not Much Comes In) didn't always actually slow things down by not working as intended. Two wrongs don't make a right, but three or four might.../sarcasm off.
You know what would lead to “psychological safety?” Fire drills. Flooding drills. Three a day. Graded fire drills REFTRA style. Nothing leads to psychological safety better than knowing you are on a ship whose crew is well-trained in the art and science of DC.
No, no, no....
That's too myopic. You must be able to embrace the energies and feel calming effect of your positive feelings.
Only then will you not feel pain at drowning, burning alive, or being blown to bits.
Can you imagine trying to make "Seven Sailors" today?
The possibilities are endless -- limited only by the boundaries of one's cynicism -- but I'm gonna leave it as an exercise for the reader....
UK version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af3veRBDJm0
US version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt7EI_pqhlE
Both inappropriate and could not be made today.
Chipping and Painting does wonders for self-image as well! :)
Another Harvard professor (at the Business School, 1990s and forward) whose courses and publications on "change management" were all the rage was Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Prof. Moss Kanter was a sociologist. One of her early books was "Commitment & Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective." A whole generation of America's top business and government leaders was fed this stuff and Prof. Kanter was an idol in the female business world.
At the same time they were reading The End of history by Fukuyama. How did that work out?
CDR, I don't know why you mock the Senator from Hawaii. That question should be asked of every member of Congress when they take their oath.
Ask of all, or none.
You mean like?
"Since you have become a member of Congress have you paid anyone as a settlement relating to an accusation of sexual misconduct?"
Yes. We may need to qualify as in "...have you or anyone on your behalf paid..."
One of the deeper issues is that this update to the instruction must have been in the works for over a year at NAVPERS and the momentum of routing up through the Front Office was not halted when the winds of change occurred on 05NOV24 or hell, even after SECDEF was confirmed and his mind was known to anyone who cared to listen. To me it screams either indifference or worse....
Fun fact, RADM Brown was NAVWAR and at a command wide virtual town hall he brought up the fact that everyone complains about NMCI being terrible to which he responded "we are NMCI" and that NAVWAR has the responsibility to make it better. So much for that. Also, a GS stood up and asked about continued 100% telework and he said that he didn't see us (NAVWAR) ever going back to in-person work. I guess that aged like raw milk on a hot Georgia day.
American intelligensia, once again proving POL POT DID NOTHING WRONG.
Making a utopian omelette require breaking many eggs.
CDR I assume you are referring to Crazy Mazie. Shes been in a year less than the other senator.
Oh…well…she has more mileage.
Plus, “TAR” spelled backwards is “RAT”…so there’s that ;-)
But "FTS" has other useful interpretations