The things that I discuss with each Sailor who reports aboard the command are very straight-forward. We've done all we can to eliminate guessing from the success equation. The leaders in this command are here to direct the accomplishment of the command's mission. People (our Sailors and their families) are a priority - that hasn't changed; but we have to accomplish the mission. We will do all we can as leaders of this activity to ensure that every Sailors has an equal opportunity to succeed in his/her naval career. We recognize that, for some, that a career will only be a single enlistment and for others 20-30 years. In either case, you've got to make the most of it. Come to work on time, do your job correctly, do an honest day's work, treat your Shipmates with dignity and respect, add value to the things you do, pay your bills on time, be faithful to your spouse and family, and live the Navy's Core Values of Honor, Courage and Commitment. Do all that and I can virtually guarantee you will be a success - in the Navy and in life. Anything less is unacceptable. R/CO
20 comments:
Well said!
W/r
Anneli Kershaw
Was the slipshod attention to details such as spelling and word usage something you did or something the CO of that place was responsible for? Seriously, that was totally pathetic.
Anon at 10:16 AM
My sincere apologies for the typing errors.
#1 I need to wear my glasses
#2 I should have at least one cup of coffee in the morning before I post.
#3 You should find something else to do with your time.
@Mike - #3. Here Here!
Sadly,
I have a screenshot of the "proof of the power of our intelligence community's devotion to getting the damned information they glean from "sources" right and then analyzing it, and sharing what they feel we can know."
Mike, you're the top of the heap. You were an 06.
I'm not saying that you should transcribe the news but THINK OF WHAT THE MESSAGE IS TO US!@@!@
That is the kind of crap we get after people just like you fail to get your Fee#21i! coffee in the morning. Are you satisfied with that product? I know you're not. You swiftly and silently changed it and then invited me to fuck off. So did a lickspittle.
People put lives on the line based on information you sent them. Did you always blame bad intel on lack of coffee?
That has been my heartache with you and all of you ever since 1981.
You want the screen shot of what you originally sent downrange? I got it.
I'm getting shit on by you and those like you because you changed the first INTSUM without telling anybody. Was that your habit? Is that what all of you do?
I learned to know that yes, it was and is, what you and those like you do. I can read you guys like a book.
Sadly,
I have a screenshot of the "proof of the power of our intelligence community's devotion to getting the damned information they glean from "sources" right and then analyzing it, and sharing what they feel we can know."
Mike, you're the top of the heap. You were an 06.
I'm not saying that you should transcribe the news but THINK OF WHAT THE MESSAGE IS TO US!@@!@
That is the kind of crap we get after people just like you fail to get your Fee#21i! coffee in the morning. Are you satisfied with that product? I know you're not. You swiftly and silently changed it and then invited me to fuck off. So did a lickspittle.
People put lives on the line based on information you sent them. Did you always blame bad intel on lack of coffee?
That has been my heartache with you and all of you ever since 1981.
You want the screen shot of what you originally sent downrange? I got it.
I'm getting shit on by you and those like you because you changed the first INTSUM without telling anybody. Was that your habit? Is that what all of you do?
I learned to know that yes, it was and is, what you and those like you do. I can read you guys like a book.
Mike,
I'm curious.
You ask for sincere apologies for what the first commenter brought to your attention about your typographical errors and then you invite that person to fuck off.
Is that the normal leadership practice in your past and present life?
What say you Jim and Anneil?
Is that how both of you lead? Is that how you handle criticism?
I think it is.
Anon
I don't understand the source of your anger. A couple of typos? Something larger? I didn't invite you to FO. I just suggested you find something else to do. I readily admit, there are typos on my blog. It happens. I don't like it. But, it happens.
Sorry Mike.
Seriously.
I'm afraid you reaped 4 in one. I read each of your last 4 posts before I replied to any of them. What am I to think of the recent comments? Did they see what I saw when I posted my initial comment or did they see some unhinged lunatic because you revised and edited your post and left my comment floating out there as the ravings of a mad person?
If you took an original source and typed the entire thing in rather than copying and pasting...what does that say? Who does that? I had no reason to think you sat down and fingered that entire article into your blog. Nobody does that.
What it looked like from out here was that either the CO put out garbage or his office put out garbage in his name, or a navy correspondent garbaged what that Command put out, published it and then you copied and pasted it without reading it.
Not one of those reflected well on anybody. They were all, in fact, discreditable.
You seriously saw anger in there? Srsly? Why? What?
Clearly my evil twin Anonymous needs to relieve some stress, let off some steam, and even perhaps get la...well best left unsaid.
The intent of the note provided is a great one, and the typos while a minor annoyance, are just that, minor. Besides, it's a blog, not a publication that goes through editting.
Keep up the blogging Mike, there will always be those less adept at sharing valueable information or thught provoking comments that feel the need to "make themselves big" by pointing out flaws in their betters...much like the overweight, middle aged, and unhappy sports fanatic you find at any sports bar that rages at the television because someone isn't doing something they themselves would never be able to.
I don't think spelling or word usage on a blog rises to the level of pathetic. Seriously or otherwise.
Anon
Lives on the line?
Once again, the anger (or maybe just trolling) of the anonymous poster. Anon, you have no problem calling out Jim and Anneli and anybody else who has the guts to use their name, how about you? Keep posting, Mike. If they don't dare sign their name to their work, that's their problem.
I'll give you a tiny sample anon if that's alright?
N2 at 3 star command assures/tells me that there is absolutely no sign that the enemy has any high explosives or even access to them. I base my force protection plans on that because I trust him. Wouldn't you?
About 2 weeks later, Khobar happens.
Have you ever heard of a thing called an explosively formed penetrator? Was it a no coffee day or a bad typo day when such things were not relayed to aircrews as a serious threat?
You ever rely on intel for data that you used to plan your route survey up an msr?
to anon, "lives on the line?" NOT YOURS!
Me and those like me. How many guys sitting in a scif were blown up after 9/11? AFTER?
Anon @ 8:12PM on September 15
Who takes screen shots of typos on a blog? And, I genuinely don't know how typos on a blog tracks back to intel failures at Khobar Towers.
I can understand a need to grind your axe but I don't understand the connection you are trying to make here.
Long time reader and commenter who commented a score of times under my own handle. It was not, "anon."
Mike, what clue had I that there were typos on your blog? I thought the data were the real deal as delivered from NSGA Yokosuka and I'm actually kind of familiar with the sort of people from places like that who, shall we say, 'redact' crap they said when later it proves to be a lie or just not true.
Why did I take the one and only screen shot of any blog AFTER I wrote my first anon response and got back a beat down? I already told you why I took the screen shot.
I saw endless products delivered to the FLEET user by NSGA and various X that effortlessly gooned the facts, skipped the important details and redacted the rest. I know, they were doing us a service.
Mike, I lost respect when you gooned the fingering and then gooned the refingering and flat out hid the glaring 'singing' sailors in your original post. Why don't I quote: "a career will only be a sing enlistment."
I will tell you how it goes. Everybody gets one bite. Your demure changes to the 'typos' didn't escape my notice and no, I haven't bothered to recapture them. You just glossed over the major, "typos" like the sing sailors.
Your post and "re"post was an archetype of exactly what I was commenting on with regard to all three of your last posts..I think they all had to do with leadership and empowering every single sailor.
Accuracy and attention to detail are the sine qua non of real professional sailors.
It bothers me that nobody here agrees with me and that you hid the only evidence which was in fact provided solely by you when I was attempting to make my point. Professionalism lies in accuracy in the details. It was all I ever asked. It was all I was ever taught. It was what I did.
And now I'm the bad guy?
I wonder. Are you at all curious now what kind of leader or follower comes here to read your guidance about training, leadership and building a professional force? I know.
It has not escaped my attention that my reply to Jim on the next thread vanished a full day ago without posting.
I apologize for my delay in taking your words to heart. Retired navy * such as myself don't trade on the credits the shiny things we used to wear on our collars earned us. That my words failed to persuade is enough. I have failed to make my point.
Think about this whole post and all the comments. I came here, enjoyed, posted the odd comment, not soliciting anything but perhaps an instant to reflect on points of view from another point of view that spent decades deploying because the actual Fleet Commanders at C5F and C7F kind of begged us to. They were moved to act by staff. By the Intel staff. I deployed mobile units and teams in response to their RFF for 20 years.
so long Mike, It was interesting. I cannot read where I cannot comment so I won't be back.
Anonymous has made some great comments here and elsewhere. I'm betting we will see more anonymous comments in the future. He's not going anywhere.
I'll be back.
Mike
Appears anonymous was not a follower on your blog, so you haven't lost anything.
Thanks for the comments Capt Lambert.
As far as the rest, I spent the first 12 of my 24 years as a Marine, I can understand frustrations with support to those in harm's way. At some point along the way one of my platoon sergeants told a fired up squad leader that despite all best efforts, once troops are in contact an enemy has a bad habit of trying to not get themselves killed. Bottom line: no plan or assessment survives first contact; leaders observe the situation and adapt.
Painting every intel, IW, supply etc. professional the same for bad experience would be the same as assuming every SWO, pilot etc. based on the poor performers in those communities.
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