tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post5598713117901468454..comments2024-01-03T05:18:54.650-05:00Comments on CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday II - Electric Boogaloo: CNO insults entire generation of SailorsCDR Salamanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05981221786954902349noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-35949237387002549952010-08-31T10:43:27.000-04:002010-08-31T10:43:27.000-04:00Therapist1...sorry about missing my callsign. I&#...Therapist1...sorry about missing my callsign. I'm poor at navigating these different comment sections and thought I had to have some kind of login set up.The Navalistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-78807588392247771352010-08-31T01:37:58.000-04:002010-08-31T01:37:58.000-04:00What do you imagine are the "right qualities&...What do you imagine are the "right qualities"?<br /><br />Race?<br />Ethnicity?<br />30 years of solid performance at all levels as an officer?<br /><br />It's not at all easy to try to diversify the flag officer corps with hundreds of appointments but when it boils down to CNO..... That's just 1 of 1. He or she had better be the very best with a solid track record.<br /><br />No pictures. No mention whatsoever of race should ever be present at a promotion board. Promote on merit alone. Let those chickens come home to roost. It can be hard. I had some outstanding subordinates who didn't promote because their leaders did not know how to write a FITREP. It wasn't by malice. It was ignorance.Curtisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-3218753992980288592010-08-30T10:17:41.000-04:002010-08-30T10:17:41.000-04:00and more so, we actually agree and LIVE BY Dr. Kin...and more so, we actually agree and LIVE BY Dr. King's words of "not judging by the color of skin...but by the content of character."Salty Gatornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-11433838747922925192010-08-30T10:14:41.000-04:002010-08-30T10:14:41.000-04:00Hey guest, WTF are you talking about?
I personally...Hey guest, WTF are you talking about?<br />I personally brought "diversity" home to meet my parents and they agree she's smoking hot. And soon we'll be engaged.<br />Phib married "diversity" and his wife gave birth to a few kids.<br />The examples from the front porch go on and on and on. And it is documented.<br />So don't lecture us.Salty Gatornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-17948415410664611872010-08-29T13:00:30.000-04:002010-08-29T13:00:30.000-04:00Guest, put down the pipe and slowly step back away...Guest, put down the pipe and slowly step back away from it.... let me ask you a question: do you know the race or ethinicity of Phib's regulars, those of us who have comfortable chairs on his Front Porch?. Thought not. Since you don't have a clue and you only have a pre-formed opinion, suggest you open a box of shut the hell up and start eating.Byronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-54446431440711805572010-08-29T12:11:23.000-04:002010-08-29T12:11:23.000-04:00Guest,
I don't know what blog you are talking ...Guest,<br />I don't know what blog you are talking about ... but it ain't this one.cdrsalamandernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-73981646821544269582010-08-29T10:34:19.000-04:002010-08-29T10:34:19.000-04:00"<span>many in this forum think the onl..."<span>many in this forum think the only form of diversity is white and non-white"</span><br /><br />Au contraire. Read all of Phib's posts and the comments on them. Quite the opposite. The porch-dwellers here get what diversity of thought and backgrounds truly consists of. And they get that achievement, and not self-identification or politics of preference, is the true discriminator. <br /><br />The CNO and DoD in general have posited just the opposite. Racial and ethnic categories, and the politically-defined victim group du jour, has been how Roughead and the others have drawn the lines.UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-34636462648413136162010-08-29T10:12:21.000-04:002010-08-29T10:12:21.000-04:00guest,
you make too much sense. many in this forum...guest,<br />you make too much sense. many in this forum think the only form of diversity is white and non-white. they think in the starkest terms possible, but diversity may arrive in the most personal form possible when their kids bring home 'diversity' to meet the parents ;) <br />uncle ruckusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-5802156125077506852010-08-29T09:20:34.000-04:002010-08-29T09:20:34.000-04:00"Be he agent, or be he principle....""Be he agent, or be he principle...."UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-78059442221391873702010-08-29T09:10:54.000-04:002010-08-29T09:10:54.000-04:00I think the difference is that she actually believ...I think the difference is that she actually believes that tripe. He sounds more like he is trying to sound empathic, hence the "I" at the beginning of almost every sentence.Therapist1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-70644896526886961702010-08-29T09:08:36.000-04:002010-08-29T09:08:36.000-04:00You bring an interesting focus to the discussion, ...You bring an interesting focus to the discussion, one that CDR has harped on for some time [see this weeks FBF]. However please put a pseudonym or name to your posts, it is just good form.Therapist1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-23055172654773155032010-08-28T11:40:28.000-04:002010-08-28T11:40:28.000-04:00On the surface, the CNO's statement isn't ...On the surface, the CNO's statement isn't wrong...he doesn't SAY anything about race or ethnicity.<br /><br />He's right, when he looks around the table all he sees are CRUDES SWOs and F-18 Aviators who have MBA's or Finance degrees. If he had, say, an amphib sailor with experience in irregular warfare or a Helo driver with two deployments chasing drug smugglers under her belt, or maybe a guy with a grad degree in History or Sociology he might hear different things. He might have greater insights into how to approach maritime asymmetric threats or 21st century naval warfare.<br /><br />Diversity doesn't have to be related to race or gender. But ducks pick ducks in the promotion system, and the Navy continues to have an education policy that is focused on producing the next batch of civilian management specialists and business leaders. The race/gender issue is a red herring so they can ignore the greater problem that the Navy risks producing a leadership full of group-think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-45824617996530189942010-08-26T13:33:16.000-04:002010-08-26T13:33:16.000-04:00You had me on the first paragraph, but I fell off ...You had me on the first paragraph, but I fell off my chair in laughter with the left handed lithuanian lesbians... who sez Lex is the only one who can spin a yarn!Mark Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-79382203002998142592010-08-26T12:55:22.000-04:002010-08-26T12:55:22.000-04:00Everytime the CNO speaks about diversity, I am rem...Everytime the CNO speaks about diversity, I am reminded of Ross Perot on the Arsenio Hall show (I was in 6th grade at the time) speaking about "you people."Salty Gatornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-52307608111762889092010-08-26T12:03:38.000-04:002010-08-26T12:03:38.000-04:00SUCKA!
I PITY THE FOOL!SUCKA!<br /><br />I PITY THE FOOL!MR T's Haircutnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-84806908022204431812010-08-26T11:39:38.000-04:002010-08-26T11:39:38.000-04:00Love your suggestion re: the Lithuanians. Way un...Love your suggestion re: the Lithuanians. Way underrepresented and probably pretty ticked off about it.Kristennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-27722058668839671332010-08-26T08:57:31.000-04:002010-08-26T08:57:31.000-04:00I am in a touchy-feely profession and what amazes ...I am in a touchy-feely profession and what amazes me is the absolute idiocy of the statements. <br /><br /><span>"but <strong></strong><span>I</span> can also look around the table and look around the room and <strong></strong><span>I</span> can see that some perspectives are absent"</span><br /><br />Does he mean that someone will actually sit there and say, "As a black data processor, we see the information coming out of Al-Qaeda differently. 300 years of bondage allows us a unique perspective on the irrational Muslim mindset." WTF?Therapist1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-57072116633090460502010-08-26T08:25:34.000-04:002010-08-26T08:25:34.000-04:00too early....not enough focus. That guest was me....too early....not enough focus. That guest was me.xformednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-77222115935087133382010-08-26T08:25:10.000-04:002010-08-26T08:25:10.000-04:00Is there somehting in the DC water that is a stron...Is there somehting in the DC water that is a strong derivative of the recently discovered element Guiltium?<br /><br />That's sad. I guess he was once blind, but now can see...that the President has a definite like of those who love him.<br /><br />Posturing at the expense of readiness of the National Security.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com