Admiral Greenert has joined the blogosphere. No kidding.
He has his first post up here. Head on over and welcome him to the land of the great unwashed!
To be frank, I am very encouraged by this step and more importantly the substance of his first post. He restates his three priorities and three tenents.
They are simple, clear, and clean. All of our leaders from LPO to Vice CNO can use them to influence their day-to-day decisions.
Very well done CNO!
Hat tip Byron.
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<span>"He restates his three priorities and three tenants."</span>
So he's a landlord?
Tenet <span>: a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true; especially : one held in common by members of an organization, movement, or profession </span>
Yes, yes ... I fat fingered that new guy. So, anything to add to the conversation?
Mefixie.
Ok, typos be damned! Now, how do we feel about this? We shall see. ADM Harvey had a blog, and still I was not overly happy with, say the outcome of the Honors case, and we still have an LCS.
I like the consistency though. If he acts consistent w/ his message and does so even against the winds of politics, then he will have my undying gratitude and admiration. Maybe we can get the Navy back from the social experiments and actually be mission ready. One can dream, one can dream.
First day here and you're already sassing the English teacher? Gonna be a tough row to hoe for you, buddy 8-)
Two ways that this has played out: 50-something tech guy realizes that new social media provides a great outlet for unfiltered dissemination of "the word" and is easily accessible to his target audience as well as his multi-faceted "Board of Directors," e.g. SECNAV, SECDEF, POTUS, CJCOS, Congress and the American people. Or, 50-something former techie turned bureaucrat has been told by Staff Info Toadie that he needs to "get with the 21st Century" and that the Flag Writer will write a "blog" with the corporate message that will post periodically under his name. My deepest hope is this is the former; my deepest fear is that it's the latter.
When I look at the CNO's 3 tenets, and I look at the substance of his messages released so far to the Fleet, I am wondering how long it will be before we get serious rudder orders to the PAO to steer nothing left of Maritime Superiority and avoid at all costs the shoals of Global Force for Good. A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower / Maritime Strategy be damned, it is time for a rewrite! We need something that takes into account the current fiscal environment and that re-articulates what our mission set as a Navy is. the current 313 ships / GFG strategy does not meet the mark.
We could cut out a lot of layers of fat if it is the former.
And, if I may be so bold, CNO, when you write the MARSTRAT, do not feel the burn to be a slave to the cult of the Joint. So much of what we do in the Maritime Domain is alone and unafraid, largely unsupported. Our key contribution to the Global War on Terror was not the IA program, even maritime security operations / MIO. It was deterring a war between us and IRAN and or CHINA.
Not sure if CNO has had his brief on Phib yet, him being a bubblehead and all that. Might take him a bit before he adds the CDR to his morning "must read list" :)
Damn, "guest" was me. Cleared my cookies yesterday doing a bit of housecleaning...
Ahhh...he addressed everyone as shipmates. Nice. Let's hope he means it. But I like how he used the "h" word. In that the USA does NOT need a "hollow" Navy.
Sounds hopeful to me. Proof is in the pudding.
If he acts consistently against the political winds I'll name a son after him!
On the other hand, I reserve the right to snark unrestrainedly if (and when, sadly) he bows to the needs of the Current Occupant and goes all Roughhead on us.
The AOD intelligence network tells me that CNO, SECNAV, sometimes CMC and VCNO all read and have read CDR SALAMANDER for at least two years now.
Good to see the brass tech savvy...but I hope it doesn't end up looking like ADM Harvey -everything he writes is followed by a bunch of comments praising him for insightfulness. (Probably staff with noses buried far up the backside).
This reminds me of the burst of hope and enthisiasm the came with Zumwalt's attempts to get his message out unfiltered via his "Z-Grams" back in the Olde Days.
I really like what the new CNO says, and if consistent and enforced it will be major changes for the better.
I wonder if that Pentagon display waste is going forward unimpeded, or if they have heeded CNO's guidance. If failing to heed it, heads should roll to emphasize the need to get with the program.
I am waiting for CNO to review the LCS fiasco and fantasies and see if that is an affordable investment in needed capabilities for the future. He may be waiting for the inevitable budget cuts to jettison that failed program, but I hope he does so as soon as possible.
If successful in implementing his goals, he will deserve credit for saving the Navy from its current death sprial into irrelevant social services experiments instead of being a naval force to protect our nation.
Are you saying that 4-star admirals end up w/ butt snorklers? Say it isn't so! :)
If the admiral is interested in something then you are fascinated in that something.
But do you have to be publicly fascinated is the question. If you are truly fascinated by an issue and take personal ownership of it AND BRING SUCCESS to closing out the issue, your FITREP will reflect. If not, then you are wasting trons and taxpayer dollars by paying lip service to his 4 star ass!
HOLD ON HERE!!! Where the hell is diversity?! How can we go foward as a Navy without making diveristy our #1 "tenant" ??????????
Not really impressed. The blog will just be a fling / flirt with technology. If he was serious about writing, he would have done so at a lower grade. Wait, maybe now his king of the hill, he can do what he wants and is not concerned with his career. Silly me, I can only dream.
The fact that the first post was authored by "cservello" makes me think the latter.
Again, I'm old fashioned but I don't want my CNO blogging or on Twitter and Facebook or any other such things. It just looks ridiculous in my mind. Most feedback is rather sycophantic in nature and only serves to reaffirm.
If he wants honest feedback, find some old CPOs, LDOs and CAPTs/CDRs who have no desire to be FOGOs. He might also consider leaving the office periodically without his horseholder's knowledge and simply engage people. I had one 3-Star when I did my tour of the Puzzle Palace who would routinely show up at my desk when I was a LT and plop down in the chair next to me and ask what I thought. The thought of him on a blog would be as foreign as thinking of him in a tutu.
My last CO was like that...A Marine O-6, "if the boss is interested, then I'm *fascinated*". Yeah, so if the boss is stupid, you're freaking *brain-dead*? Often, that was the case.
<span>"The AOD intelligence network tells me that CNO, SECNAV, sometimes CMC and VCNO all read and have read CDR SALAMANDER for at least two years now."</span>
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Good to see they're trying to get smarter :)
cservello = LCDR Chris Servello, CHINFO, OI-52, Communication Strategy?
I figured it was someone like that. Reminds of one FOGO who had his staff print out all of his emails to which he hand wrote responses upon followed by his staff then typing them back into an email.
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