Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command and Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet announced on Wednesday a realignment of the command structure for the respective fleets.Yep, that second paragraph cracked me up.
Officials say the new structure establishes unambiguous command and control and administrative control lines of authority and accountability for ship manning, training, equipping and maintenance issues.
The action includes the realignment of Commander, Naval Air Forces and Commander, Naval Surface Forces from Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command to Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet. The Navy also says, since naval forces are assigned to Type Commanders and not Fleet Type Commanders, the revision includes the direction that only Type Commanders have the authority to man, train, equip and maintain assigned forces.
The Navy's action also establishes a Fleet Integration Executive Panel chaired by both Commander U.S. Pacific Fleet and Commander U.S. Fleet Forces Command, replacing the Fleet Readiness Enterprise, formerly led by U.S. Fleet Forces Command.
With the realignment, the Type Commanders reporting to Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet include: Commander, Naval Air Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet / Commander, Naval Air Forces (AIRFOR); Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet / Commander, Naval Surface Forces (SURFOR); and Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet.
The Type Commander reporting to Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command include: Commander, Naval Air Force, Atlantic; Commander, Naval Surface Force, Atlantic; Commander, Submarine Force, Atlantic / Commander, Submarine Forces (SUBFOR); Commander, Military Sealift Command; Commander, Navy Cyber Forces; and Commander, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command.
I guess until this MSM award citation was written we had, "... ambiguous command and control and administrative control lines of authority and accountability for ship manning, training, equipping and maintenance issues." ... and we were cool with that for how many years? In a time of war? Really?
Might explain a lot. OK Staff Weenies - time to update your C2 slides. Chop chop.
Hat tip Tom.
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Go to ADM Harveys Fleet Forces Command blog...first three posts are "WTF?!" or politely, "request clarification and/or flow chart :)
ya know, this actually makes things MORE difficult for me. I guess I will re-staff everything I have in the chop chain. Oh well. Kinda funny now that instead of 1 boss I will actually have 2. I swear it used to be easier......
...snort...just back from CFCC blog post comments. So, whaddya figure the odds are that someone spent the weekend redrawing the org charts, which are being revised again this morning?
uhh, sorry: that's two "F" esses in CFFC, not to be confused with the Cape Fear Community College (CFCC)
Wha, Uhhh, Huh!?!?!
So what does this mean in the long run? Am I going to have to rewrite a whole bunch of QA/CDI tests cause instructions (like the NAMP) have changed hands yet again? Or does it mean that they are cleaning up the numerous Nx offices and trying to stream line them again to being something simple and easier to understand? Will someone please make an exectuive decision to be the Don, pretty please with cement shoes on thier feet.
I am getting way to confused down here on the deck plates as to who my ultimate bosses boss is.
I got an idea. Let's do it by mission and task and call them: Task Force, with subordinate Task Groups, wit subordinate Task Units, with subordinate Task Elements. Task Force 61, Task Element 61.1.2.3, you know.
Have all the reasonably related Task Forces work for a Vice Admiral and call the sum of the parts a "Numbered fleet". Make it by function, like Navships & all its chillun go under 20th fleet. Seagoing fleets get numbers 1-20. Each work for the named (geographically) fleet commander. PacFlt, CentFlt, HomeShipFleet, Home AirFleet. Home Administrative Fleet.
Alternatively, the shore outfits get named a Bureau and function, BuPer&Admin. Buships, BuAir, BuTrain, BuLog, BuMed. BuShips Task Force 1 = Puget Sound Shipbuilding and Repair, as an example.
What to call the guy with lineal number 1? Commander, US Fleets. Number? 0 or 100, whichever.
Works directly for Sec Nav. Call it a "board": Gen Board, InSurv Board, like that.
Just a suggestion.
That's crazy talk. It'll never work. It isn't transformational either.
And I'm not seeing any word about how, by employing the over-arching concept of a diverse service force, you could possibly make this an overwhelming force for goodness, rainbows and unicorns. Could you work me up a PowerPoint presentation for briefing, say, by tomorrow morning?
And by tomorrow we mean you will need to also work this weekend to finish both the TPS, diversity, manpower, and finally readiness reports.
And by tomorrow we also mean you will need to complete the TPS, Diversity, Manpower, 3M readiness, and overall readiness report.
Oh and before I go, the XO has said that tomorrow is Dress Blues with large medals for all personnel not on watch, all watchstanders unless they are standing topside watches will be wearing the Service Uniform, unless they are standing Engineering watches who will be wearing Coveralls, unless they are working forward of frame 25 where NWU's will be authorized, unless your on the pierwatch where you will be wearing dress blues undressed without neckerchief and ribbons, oh and only the raincoat will be authorized for all watchstanders.
This whole thing reminds me of this quote from Office Space:
"It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now. "
" I beg your pardon?"
"Eight bosses."
" Eight? "
"Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired. "
I don't do Powerpuke. If you can't understand it in english prose, DIE IGNORANT.
You may quote me.
SAP: Uniform of the day complexities are delegated to the Chief Yeoman, enforcement to the CMAA and training therein to the MCPOC/COB.\
Delegate (and follow up). Command by negation. Manage by walking about. You have subordinates so you can get out from behind the desk and LEAD.
No hill for a stepper. Mrmph. Kids. Hrrmph.
Oh Sure, but how am I supposed to verify that all my divison is abiding by the U of the Day, when I am trying to deliever the TPS Report, 3M report, Manning Document, Diversity section of the overall EO briefing, 1st Qtr Budget, fixes to the last AMI audit, all of which are due tomororow. By which my CPO meant it was due on Friday so they could throw it back at me cause it the Admin O has dictated the the pre requsite opening verbage for all these reports and the reality is the Skipper doesn't want to see it at the DH meetings until the end of the month.
<span>Oh Sure, but how am I supposed to verify that all my divison is abiding by the U of the Day, when I am trying to deliever the TPS Report, 3M report, Manning Document, Diversity section of the overall EO briefing, 1st Qtr Budget, fixes to the last AMI audit, all of which are due tomororow. By which my CPO meant it was due last Friday so they could throw it back at me cause it the Admin O has dictated the the pre requsite opening verbage for all these reports isn't there and the reality is the Skipper doesn't want to see these reports at the DH meetings until the end of the month.</span>
But tommorrow is the second Tuesday of an even month!
A post reply was, "<span>Do we answer to PACOM for ship maintenance, training and future planning?"</span>
Really? How is someone throwing the Commander of military forces in the Pacific AOR in that discussion?
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