Thursday, November 17, 2011

Diversity Thursday

So Chief .... busy on deployment? Feel like a warfighter in pursuit of life, liberty, and all that threaten it?

What? No? Bad collateral duty? Are you a meat-gazer? No? What?

There is something worse? Oh, Shipmate. I'm so sorry.
-----Original Message-----
From: [redacted], James M. AEC
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 4:41 PM
To: CVN-72 Chief's Mess; CVN-72 Wardroom
Subject: FW: DEOMI EO/EEO/Diversity/Cross Cultural Competency News
Highlights 7 October 2011

CVN-72 Leaders,

The attached and forwarded e-mail is information and a newsletter from DEOMI concerning pertinent topics of Equal Opportunity. Recommend that all leaders have a good understanding of EO competencies and project EO in their everyday leadership roles. This is quality information for all leaders at every level and I intend to share this information with you as I receive it. Please, give the information a review and see how you can use the information in your leadership arenas. Thank you!

Very Respectfully,

James M. [redacted]
AEC (AW) USN
CVN-72 USS Abraham Lincoln
J-[redacted]

-----Original Message-----
From: [redacted], Bryan S Civ USAF AFSPC DEOMI/PA
[mailto:Bryan.[redacted]@patrick.af.mil]
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 7:57 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: DEOMI EO/EEO/Diversity/Cross Cultural Competency News
Highlights 7 October 2011

This email is best viewed in HTML

Good morning,

As part of DEOMI's endeavor of disseminating pertinent EO, EEO, diversity, and Cross-Cultural Competency information, our library staff has developed various avenues for DEOMI faculty, staff and practitioners in the Field and Fleet to become aware of the "current issues" that affect our mission of equal opportunity and equal employment opportunity training, education, and research. One method of accomplishing this is a weekly document created by our library staff we call EO/EEO News links which capture stories concerning subject matter that our EO and EEO professionals may be interested in.

Note: For ease of navigation, the PDF file now contains internal bookmarks to all the sections and individual articles. To access the bookmarks, click on the second icon down in the vertical panel on the left side of the screen.

If you elect to share this e-mail with your peers in the field or your respective Service headquarters, the attached file can also be accessed on the main page of DEOMI's public Website at www.deomi.org by clicking to the right of the headline that says "Click here to read Current EO/EEO News," or go directly to the link within the Website at:
http://www.deomi.org/LibraryResources/CurrentEOEEONewsLinks.cfm. We are also keeping and archive of past issues of this document on this page as well.

It is our hope that the articles will help all of us capture "current issues" to share with others to ultimately become more aware of equal opportunity, equal employment opportunity, diversity and culture issues in the news. Our goal is to better educate ourselves and others to further our mission of equality and fairness for all.

Also, did you know: That you can visit DEOMI's Education & Training Programs link on our Website at:
http://www.deomi.org/Education&Training/FirstTimeStudentInstructions.cfm

... to enroll and take online E-learning courses anytime and anywhere? Let your friends, coworkers, family members, your child's teachers, etc. know about this great opportunity. You don't need a Common Access Card (CAC) to login and you can take the courses anywhere. This is a great opportunity to help make America a better place for everyone. DEOMI training officials have announced that another online e-Learning Course has been added to DEOMI's Learning Management System (LMS.) The "Bystander Intervention" course is the 15th course to be added to DEOMI's E-Learning Catalog. These courses are all available to anyone, anytime, anywhere.

The "Bystander Intervention" course provides information on who is a bystander, bystander responsibilities, and bystander situations. The course concludes with strategies on bystander interventions in the moment and after an event has occurred.

Other enhancements to the DEOMI E-Learning courses include: Full audio; student input survey; student demographic survey; enhanced completion certificate; and a reminder for students to update their official training records.

Currently the Learning Management System houses courses on topics such as Group Development; Communication Skills; Listening & Feedback Skills; Communicating Across Differences; Ethics; Socialization; Perceptions; Individual Diversity; Religious Diversity & Accommodation; Power & Privilege; Prejudice & Discrimination; Racism; Sexism; Sexual Harassment, and Bystander Intervention.

Respectfully,


Bryan S. [redacted]
Public Affairs Officer

Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI)
366 Tuskegee Airmen Drive
Patrick AFB FL 32925
(321) 494-[redacted] DSN: 854-[redacted]
www.deomi.org
Find us on FaceBook at: www.facebook.com/DEOMI.DoD
Readiness...Is DEOMI's Guiding Principle
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26 comments:

  1. Alo01:21

    It must be so fulfilling for Brian the Air Force civilian diversity bureaucrat to get paid for being a joyless scold.

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  2. AW1 Tim01:37

    There's a reason that Chiefs have that look on their face like they want to kill someone.

     There damned well better be a pony under that pile of EO manure they have that poor AEC shoveling.  He's earning every penny of his pay dealing with all that crap.

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  3. Former 336406:08

    He will be more joyless when he checks his inbox this morning Sal, his email address is there for all to see.

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  4. LT B06:28

    yep, his email is easily reached.  Everytime these douche nozzles include diversity along with equal opportunity they completely diminish their credibility.  "We want equal opportunity, but we want to be treated special and different than everybody else."  That is crap.  Oh yeah the last line?  "Readiness" is their guiding principle?  Yet they freaking shovel this crap?  I do not think readiness means what you think it means Bry the Balkanization guy.

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  5. Justthisguy06:51

    Sorry, Sir, my eyes glazed over when I tried to read that. What did it say, really?  I tried to read it again and didn't get far before feeling a desire to chew on a wrist and curl up under the desk here. I resisted that and managed to act normal.  I won't try again, as that might bring out my inner rational aspie and cause me to jump up and down and hurt myself, or something, or somebody. (just _slightly_ exaggerating, there)

    We used to have a pretty good Navy.

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  6. cdrsalamander07:59

    Thought I got that.  Mefixie.

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  7. MR T's Haircut08:39

    couple of observations.

    1. DEONI office on Patrick AFB is located on "Tuskagee Airmen Drive"  Nice... ivory tower?
    2. A CPO sending Spam to the ENTIRE ship CPO mess and Wardroom.. I would delete the spam.. too much competing priorities like upcoming portcall, heads and beds dirty and Big XO inspections are due..

    really?  WE HAVE BETTER S(@*@ to do with our time... 

    I PITY THE FOOLS

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  8. MR T's Haircut08:40

    Do you get a joint ticket if you work on diversity jointly?  a whole new spin on "purple"

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  9. Grumpy Old Ham08:46

    Had to infer this from one of their slick powerpoints, but DEOMI looks like about 150 billets that could be repurposed to real warfighting (i.e., COCOMs, not reincarnations of JFCOM offices).

    OBTW, their leadership profiles reflect a distinct lack of diversity, IMNSHO.

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  10. The Usual Suspect11:29

    I have a solution; go to the "Tools" tab on your e-mail tool bar.  Select "Rules".  Enter offending e-mail address and any pertinant words in subject area.  Select "Action" tab and check box "Send to Trash", click on "Apply" and then "Run Rule Now" and "Save".

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  11. LazyChop11:33

    "<span>Currently the Learning Management System houses courses on topics such as Group Development; Communication Skills; Listening & Feedback Skills; Communicating Across Differences; Ethics; Socialization; Perceptions; Individual Diversity; Religious Diversity & Accommodation; Power & Privilege; Prejudice & Discrimination; Racism; Sexism; Sexual Harassment, and Bystander Intervention."</span>
    <span></span>
    <span>So, what are the going odds on how long it will take for these to be added to annual GMT, and also how long it will take for that GMT to go from CBT to mandatory classroom instruction (as it stands now)? God knows we all need more mandatory force-wide training.</span>

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  12. LazyChop11:38

    Just ask how this training supports any particular NTA in your NMETL, or how it might support tasks in your ROC/POE. Or how it gets reported in DRRS-N for your ISIC to review. I bet you dollars-to-doughnuts it would be met with blank looks.

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  13. Grandpa Bluewater12:01

    Killjoy.

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  14. Grumpy Old Ham12:48

    If he's the PA guy, he should be used to lots of incoming mail...and if he isn't, he should consider it OJT.  :)

    Y'all could always send feedback to deomipa@patrick.af.mil, as published on their home page; I suspect those messages land in the same area.

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  15. Grumpy Old Ham12:49

    <span>If he's the PA guy, he should be used to lots of incoming mail...and if he isn't, he should consider it OJT.  <img></img>  
     
    Y'all could always send feedback to the address linked on their home page; I suspect those messages land in the same area.</span>

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  16. Grumpy Old Ham12:50

    <span>If he's the PA guy, he should be used to lots of incoming mail...and if he isn't, he should consider it OJT. </span> :)
    <span>  
    Y'all could always send feedback to the address linked on their home page; I suspect those messages land in the same area, anyway.
    </span>

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  17. LT B13:36

    Dude, I just read that statement w/ a blank look.  Can I look all that up on NKO?  ;)

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  18. LT B13:40

    The new CNO is about warfare first, I hear.  Maybe we can start firing these knuckleheads and hire guys that focus on unification, team building, pride in service, and focus on Navy Core Values.  We're already Balkanized in the services.  The A-gangers fight w/ the ordies, the OS's fight w/ the QM's, the sailors fight w/ the Marines, the Marines fight w/ everybody, the Army fights with the Marines and the Air Force kicks butt on the golf course (home field advantage).  Now we are trying to Balkanize by color w/in each service?  The other stuff is just good clean fun, racist doctrine will, however, tear us all apart.

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  19. LT B13:42

    Can you hit action and have a reply sent back that says, "you've been retooled?"

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  20. LT B13:45

    Power and Privilege; Prejudice and discrimination, etc...  aren't those Jane Austen books? 

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  21. The Emigrant09:54

    I don't care whether it is a popular opinion or not, but a chief should not be sending the wardroom mass emails, especially where there is a potential to be seen as telling the entire wardroom how to do their jobs. It is bad for good conduct and discipline, and once upon a time I would not have had to caveat my statement by saying "I don't care whether it is a popular opinion or not".

    The Navy needs to figure out whether there is a need for officer and enlisted divisions. If so, it should start living by it and stop the not-so-gradual merging of the chief and officer ranks (with chiefs actually being more than equal). If not, it should stop the fraud and figure out something new. Everytime this kind of thing happens I believe you kill the ability or willingness of the O-2/3/4 to exercise initiative and leadership, and though I cannot prove it, I believe it does play a role in the seeming inability of some to actually exercise command once they have it, and thus requiring them to be relieved. How big a role it plays I do not know, but I simply argue most people cannot simply be emasculated middle-managers for 15-18 years and then somehow become Captain Courageous.

    The blunt fact is that the officer ranks should be about warfighting--command in battle--and all the ancillary requirements necessary for that--and the chief's ranks about making the ship run in accordance with the direction of the officers. That means that a certain point the officer ranks have to be on a seperate--and not penetrated--plane, and the officers have got to be able to act like officers. If there are those in the chief's ranks truly talented enough to be considered sufficiently officer-like as to merit the ability to lecture the officer ranks on its duties, then they should be made officers. James Cook, after all, started as an able seaman in the Royal Navy. I have no issues with enhanced mobility to warrant and officer ranks for those of talent in the enlisted ranks--we should do more of this. I have a fundamental issue with the gradual elimination of functional distinctions between the officer and cheif's ranks, for I do not think it will end well (for a variety of reasons).

    This email, if necessary for the wardroom's eyes, should have come from the Executive Officer of the ship.

    Catcalls, denunciations, attacks, and slams can now begin.

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  22. subiconoclast11:19

    <p>Apparently CVN 72 aspires to be more Top 50 Employer than Warship.  
    </p>

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  23. LT B11:26

    No argument here.  I had to inform one of my LT colleagues (she was a mouse and didn't really want to be addressed by her rank) that she did NOT take orders from enlisted, EVEN if he was a master chief.  You can seek counsel, use their experience, work with, but do not take orders from the master chief.  The master chief, later, tried to tell me that he should order the JOs around.  Negative.  You are right, there is a break at the E to O level. 

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  24. Grandpa Bluewater12:03

    Nice summary, B.  They should read to all O and CPO upon becoming eligible for khaki trou.

    The fundamentals are just, well, fundamental.

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  25. Grandpa Bluewater12:05

    Naw, volume titles for a history of Russia 1900-2000.

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  26. Grandpa Bluewater12:07

    Purple and double jointed. What a concept (shudder).

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