From NAVY TIMESCaptain John Schultz, head community manager at Navy Personnel Command, uses the farming analogy of “seed corn” for junior officers, a valuable resource for future needs.
“One of the things we’re working today is clearly defining what that agriculture base should be. We put a lot of emphasis on the control-grade work, but you don’t get people in the control grades unless you have a healthy O-1 to O-3, the seed corn,” he said.
My thoughts:
The Navy uses the farming analogy later on when these seed corn grow into O-4s and O-5s. They call it sorting the wheat from the chaff. And later, when they are O-6s, the Navy puts them out to pasture. This is all too much farm talk about Sailors as far as I'm concerned.
Sailors are our most important asset, maybe we shouldn't refer to them as an agricultural base. Makes me worry about them being tilled under (E7-E9 continuation boards) to produce a stronger crop.
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As an analogy, it's right up there with "Human Capital" (for "people") in the degrading department. I call the young people I'm hiring for my organization today "my replacements" :-)
This is a very important discussion down here within the BUPERS-3 organization. I am fortunate enough to be a part of the cross functional team that will make recommendations on the ideal billet structure that will actually allow us as a community and Navy to grow into the control grade requirements. We are undermanned at CDR not because our inventory is too low, but because our billet requirements are too great (and unobtainable given very valid DOPMA constraints). Stand by for something akin to "Top Six Rolldowns" on the enlisted side.
Uh...we're undermanned at the CDR level because we botched the 90's drawdown and we promote to percentages, not to vacancies.
When I was a LCDR there was 1 body for every 3 billets...so,100 LCDRs eligible for CDR filling 150 LCDR billets
Select 90% to CDR
Now you have 90 CDRs filling 135 CDR billets
Select 75% to CAPT
Now you have 68 CAPTs filling 101 billets.
And that's for ONE year group...not spread across the 4 or 5 that make up an individual rank inventory.
The numbers are made up, but the import of the drop off is not.
Could we solve some of this by reducing billets? Sure...but who's doing the work that said CDR billet, or CAPT billet, was funded for? A LT, a LCDR, a contractor? Should we just kill all vacant billets and see who screams? Not an easy discusison. Good Luck NPC!
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