Monday, March 15, 2010

CNO goes Salamander

Hey .... where have I heard this over the last few years?
Finally, we are pursuing evolutionary instead of revolutionary designs to deliver required future capabilities.
You're welcome.

Hey, I know I ping on the CNO a lot - he has an exceptionally difficult job - and though I may disagree with him 40% of the time; that means I agree with him the other 60%.

After a decade of fighting transformationalists - I will take this down as another small victory for 'ole Sal.

Who'd'a'thunk; 2010 and Admiral Gary Roughead, USN, Chief of Naval Operations, joined Salamander as an antitransformationalists; kind of.

Welcome aboard Admiral. If
Chasse can join Wellington - then Roughead and Salamander should be able to work together just fine. Miles to go .... miles to go.

24 comments:

sid said...

<span>FWIW.... </span>
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Remembering  a bit of quality reflection here, in Tobago, I requested a berth aboard CDR Sal's porch  after I saw the craziness going on with all this "trasnfomationailst" crap.</span>

You know a good skipper when you see one....

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UltimaRatioRegis said...

Behold Phibian Salamander.  The "shadow" CNO.  Henry VI had his kingmaker....

Byron said...

You had to request a berth? Hell, five years ago, I got a work order to fix the handrail around the porch, I've been squatting out on the same job ever since :)

Maybe the wheels in DC and the Five Sided Wind Tunnel on the Potomac have finally wised up that they should listen to this burr under their comfortable sadles...

SCOTTtheBADGER said...

WOW! What a nice porch!  T'would be an honor to sit on it!

YNSN said...

I am curious...

Is it that the enviroment of ideas has changed around the CNO, or that the CNO's ideas have changed? 

The first time I heard the term revolutionary vs. evolutionary was from your site here Sir.  I think it was back in '06 when I first read that here.  I wonder though, if the CNO has always felt this way and had to let events catch up with him to be able to voice that opinion?  Or, has he himself now been convinced that the kool aid is not good for you?

I err on the side that the CNO has always thought along the lines of evolutionary.  Everytime I've heard him talk (3 times, 1 as USFFC, 2 as CNO one of those 2 here in AFG) he becomes most impassioned when talking about ships.  You can tell he freakin' loves ships and thinks about that the most.

So what is it, how does the dynamic of blogs and the internet now affec the decision making process at the Pentagon and in the Navy?  Next time I talk to him, I will ask.

Byron said...

Be careful where you lean, I'm still not done with the handrail. Every time I try to get the work order signed off, Phib comes out with another beer and hands me a change order 8-)

Chris Dudas said...

Phib, do you know you have your own action team over at NETWARCOM? I was discussing some requriements stuff with them and you site came up and you think I said "sailor" in a Doonesbury strip...... Anytime you hit on some major programs you have a bunch of folks over there doing fact checking. I laughed pretty good at that one.

sid said...

Broken link above.

Good view of the wonderful vista to be had at the fort on the hill in Tobago here...

And, for those who don't know what happened there in Scarborough...Check this out.

Highly recommend a visit.

MR T's Haircut said...

HAHA

MR T's Haircut said...

Umm kinda like closing the barn door after the horses got out... we'll see....

sid said...

'specially since the good CNO is on record saying this.....

cdrsalamander said...

Well .... if I screw up, I hope they send me an email. 

..... I wonder if my blog ever made it into a FITREP bullet ...  8-)

Byron said...

Be careful, CNO could call you back up, give you a stripe (or two :)   ) and make you CHINFO :-P

Byron said...

I always thought his porch was more like this :

http://www.collegehumor.com/picture:112083

:)

WESTPAC Warrior said...

More DDG 51 hulls for all my friends . . . .  

jim_in_fla said...

Such abodes are plentiful along the Chassahowitzka river on the Fl west coast. Not a Disney river ride.

xbradtc said...

Workhorse?

More like "My Little Pony"

Therapist1 said...

There is a lot of money tied to transformationalism; I will believe in the change when I see it.

DeltaBravo said...

Awww, heck, just give him stars....

DeltaBravo said...

'ell Naw! Byron, that's YOUR front porch.  With gators under it.  And crawdads cookin' in a pot on the stove.

;)

DeltaBravo said...

"A Casanova with sea legs" who "courted Southern Belles".  No wonder they have his tomb in the Holy of Holies at Boat School...  ;)   A man to emulate, no?

Byron said...

"Crawfish", my dear lady, crawfish. Only heathens who use them for bass bait call them "crawdads" :)

LT B said...

I wouldn't say it was a "bullet"  but it DID make my FITREP.  :)

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