Posted on 08/21/2017 9:20:52 AM PDT by 11th_VA
The Navys top officer says the services new emphasis on character in its leaders is meant as a wake up call for the service to be more competitive.
Particularly in the maritime weve enjoyed preeminence. Those times are coming to a close and we are being contested now in some very important parts of the world and so there is this return to competition. There is a need for leadership, said Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson in an interview with Federal News Radio.
Last week, the Navy revamped its training paths for officers and enlisted leaders to better emphasize personal attributes that could be beneficial to the service.
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The push for those attributes comes after the Navy dealt with a series of scandals from some high level leadership, most notably the Fat Leonard scandal in which a contractor bribed Navy officers.
The push for those attributes comes after the Navy dealt with a series of scandals from some high level leadership, most notably the Fat Leonard scandal in which a contractor bribed Navy officers.
But the plan is more than just making sure Navy leaders are good people, it creates room for leaders to break out of the cookie cutter pathways to leadership and allows for some personal broadening.
Enlisted ranks will take local classes made up of lectures, group discussions and coaching. The pinnacle of enlisted leadership is the senior enlisted academy.
Officers will go through formal leadership schooling associated with major career milestones at the Naval Leadership and Ethics Center. The courses will include department head, commanding officer and major command classes.
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LOL, good point.
Too busy worried about which bathroom to use. People who can’t decide if they are men or women shouldn’t drive ships.
“As far as what the CNO said, I dont know what the hell he said or meant.”
I understood what he said. He said we’re going to start requiring good character and personal responsibility. (As we always did before the Klintonoids and Obamanations screwed things up.)
The question is whether this will be properly implemented.
Sorry but he is a real straight shooter and refuses to discuss anything pertaining to operations. He won a Bronze Star in Afghanistan and has not said a word about what he did. He certainly does not need Ethics training
“The Navys top officer says the services new emphasis on character in its leaders is meant as a wake up call for the service to be more competitive.”
Very bad timing for Richardson to have this story appear.
He needs to determine if he can stop these boats from crashing.
If he can’t, he needs to turn the job over to someone who can. And I don’t mean sometime next week.
It is really difficult to get the first wisecrack onto this site.
In general, the federal government has long been promoting people into senior positions not on the basis of ability, but rather on diversity and political considerations. It was just a matter of time before “affirmative action” infected the military and effected our force readiness and morale. That’s what happens when mediocrity is promoted over merit.
The Navy should focus more on the bow and less on the poop deck.
I knew we were in trouble when the memorandum came down saying that it wasn’t fair to evaluate Soldiers by their performance in combat.
I wonder if these collision incidence are related to the Obama purge of experienced officers throughout the military? It took several years for the military to come back to competence after Clinton and worse, after Carter. The success of Bush’s “surge” in Iraq was not primarily due to the increased manpower but mostly to the fact that the officer corps had finally been reinvigorated by talent coming up through the combat ranks. The Surge made it much more effective but probably would not have accomplished much had it occurred a year earlier.
That’s right, more trannies and more people with tattoos from asshole to appetite, piercings everywhere, crazy haircuts with orange, green and purple hair, diversity is our strength, anyone who looks as if they know how to add two and two should be eliminated.
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