Showing posts with label SECNAV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SECNAV. Show all posts
Monday, August 29, 2022

The Eeyore Leadership Model for Our Navy

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To paraphrase Papa Salamander's favorite saying, " No one owes you a Navy ." It has been eight decades since there was such a ...
Tuesday, August 02, 2022

How Many Fireboats Can You Buy for $1.2 Billion?

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As we go through today's post, I'd like everyone to keep in mind an intangible that impacts not just our Navy in the eyes of the peo...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

SECNAV Promotes an Official Religion

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Under the prior Democratic administration, we saw seabags full of personal and institutional capital - not to mention a lot of actual capita...
Thursday, November 05, 2020

Diversity Thursday

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So, the day after the election, what does the USCG really want its officers performance evaluated on? Of course. Para 3 covers it. R 041533 ...
Friday, June 19, 2020

SECNAV & CNO on TR and Captain Crozier

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In place of FbF today - a rare occurrence - I offer to you the below, the best link I can find to the statement and press conference today. ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Unsolicited Advice for the SECNAV Designate

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Guest post by Bryan McGrath Nine months ago, in the bandwidth of this very same forum, I took the opportunity to render some unsolicite...
Friday, April 10, 2020

No Rush on SECNAV Hearings

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Rightfully, the month of April for navalists has been dominated by COVID-19's impact on the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), the Acting ...
Tuesday, February 04, 2020

Is Lucy, tee'n up the Ball for Charlie Brown Again?

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Beware of the Good Idea Fairy riding in to save you on the back of a unicorn. How many times will we have to go through this cycle?  H...
Tuesday, December 03, 2019

SECNAV: Turnaround Specialist Wanted

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Besides getting tripped up at the end, I think on average of the last couple of decades, Spencer did a fine job … but … either stayed too ...
Monday, November 25, 2019

What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is Going on Around Here?

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What a way to start the week. News broke halfway through yesterday's Midrats with Bryan McGrath that now former-SECNAV Spencer was f...
Monday, July 08, 2019

Moran’s Defenestration

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Back in May, in a rare set up for a smooth transition in an administration characterized by “acting” officials, gapped billets, backlogged...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

SECNAV Makes a Statement

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A few days before Christmas, SECNAV Spencer visited Marines and Sailors at TFSW in Afghanistan. When you see it ... nuff said ... .  ...
Monday, December 11, 2017

SECNAV Spencer: Stow the Optimism, There Will be no Naval Renaissance

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With apologies to The Bard; Friends, Navalists, members of the Front Porch, give me your attention. I have come here to bury the 350 Shi...