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Don't you miss the days when leaders simply called their Sailors, "scallywags?"
If you know the Fleet you serve in isn't the Fleet you hear about in the popular media - do you wonder why our senior leadership won't defend it ... or do you wonder if they agree with the slander?
I'm pondering over at USNIBlog. Come visit and let me know what you think.
According to stipulations in The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, random and unannounced visits might be a provision of the new government healthcare program. Those eligible and enrolled in the ‘Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program’ (MIECHV) can expect to receive random visits, especially those who are in “high risk categories”.
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HSS) recognizes high-risk categories as:
- Eligible families who reside in communities in need of such services.
- Low-income eligible families.
- Eligible families who are pregnant women who have not attained age 21.
- Eligible families that have a history of child abuse or neglect or have had interactions with child welfare services.
- Eligible families that have a history of substance abuse or need substance abuse treatment.
- Eligible families that have users of tobacco products in the home.
- Eligible families that are or have children with low student achievement.
- Eligible families with children with developmental delays or disabilities.
- Eligible families with individuals who are serving, or formerly served, in the Armed Forces.
Well, there you go.
Interesting country we're making here.
Hat tip WS.
Good to see where one of our better journalists cut his teeth.
It is also kind of funny that he didn't get the brief on when NOT to come to Gator Country. Boy looks like the heat and humidity was a bit much for him.
Note to ya'll's from off yonder; come do your outdoor stuff down here OCT-MAY. JUN-SEP will flat melt your thick Yankee blood, bless your heart.
A topic I like to touch base on now and then - one to be honest isn't all that popular with readers if you judge things by links and hits - is that of our requirement morally to return our dead home.
From Libya, to George-One, to Greenland and other places - it is too easy for the living to shrug off honoring our dead; even those who we have promised to return.
Thankfully, though some officials may not make quite the effort we would like; a lot of individuals are at least making the effort.
Regular listeners to Midrats know where I'm going.
If you have not listened to our interview from a few years ago with CAPT Hudner, do so now.
"Well be back for you."
The video from VOA is the best reporting I've see so far.
I don't need to tell you why this is so Fullbore.
... had their BSC rolled-down or deleted; it would be a good start. Yes, I know this is like getting excited about a pond filling up after a rain, but still. As we go after more Fleet billets soon, this the way to start the conversation - cuts from the top.
Upon the recommendation of the Chief of Naval Operations, the Secretary of the Navy has approved a plan that will result in 34 Navy Flag Officer positions being reduced, eliminated, or consolidated
The plan aligns Navy Flag Officer billet structure to inventory, complies with statutory limits of USC Title 10, and preserves Navy’s ability to meet Joint flag officer requirements,
Nice to see the CNO has executed Phase 1 of Plan Salamander. I look forward to entire shore-Staff mergers and/or eliminations next.
I especially like the 1-star billets re-coded as CAPT. A note to Skippy-san, your windmill/white whale is on pages 4 & 7. I'll tip a drink for you tonight.
Here is the outline from USNINews;
Hat tip JSS.
Troupe, eh?
So, have we really spent enough man-hours on training for SAPR yet?
It seems like the answer is, "Of course not."
Even though we have layers upon layers of training already on the topic, we act like wWe've got plenty of post-sequestration money to throw around, and who could ever say that we have conducted enough training?
Actually, that is a very good question; who is willing to say, "Enough. Our culture is in line with the rest of the nation, even better. If we have bad actors, we will take care of them. We have done enough training and will continue to train, but we have to prepare for war."
No one is the answer.
-----Original Message-----
From: [redacted], Mike T CIV NAS Whidbey Is, N01P
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 13:15
To: NAS Whidbey Is All Hands
Subject: SAPR No Zebra's Performance
*** ALL HANDS ***
Special SAPR event
An acting troupe called No Zebra will conduct Sexual Assault Prevention & Response performances at Sky Warrior Theater on August 19 at 1300 and 1500. These performances are for active duty servicemen and women, particularly members, particularly junior Sailors. The show lasts between 1-1.5 hours. For more information, please contact NASWI's Sexual Assault Response Coordinator (SARC), Kathleen Schofield, at 360.257.[redacted].
Mike [redacted] Public Affairs Officer NAS Whidbey Island 3730 N. Charles Porter Ave Oak Harbor, WA 98278 360-257-[redacted] DSN: 820-[redacted] michael.[redacted]@navy.mil
So, I'm sitting here late on a Tuesday night trying to figure out what I wanted to pontificate about for Wednesday, but I'm in a funk. I've been that was since Sunday afternoon. I don't have writers block, there is plenty I want to type out, but frankly I just don't have the desire to let it come out of the nogg'n and on to the keyboard.
I really have no reason for being in a funk, I'm so blessed it's stupid. But funk-wise, I seem to be in fairly good company. It didn't help my funk any, but Monday AM I found Karim Delgado's work.
Spend some time bouncing around his site a bit. I especially recommend his short b-roll film, "Humans of Afghanistan."
... I think I’ve come to realize that here in the West, people’s opinions about the region, its people and the war have really congealed into this sickening sort of knee-jerk bring-the-troops-home or these-colors-don’t-run blather that ignores the humanity of everyone involved. I think it’s very easy to ignore people when we don’t want to genuinely confront the difficult questions that come with acknowledging their existence. It’s easy, but it’s wrong.
I don’t want to tell people what to think about this war, whether it’s good or evil — that would be an arrogant presumption on my part and I’ve learned from Afghanistan that nothing is so unambiguous — but I want them to think of the broader implications for humanity in their considerations of where we should go from here. We can’t always avoid making mistakes but we can at least avoid being uninformed. And that means more than reading the news. It means understanding the people.
What he said. Here it is.
This Wednesday my goal is to go to bed early and wake up unfunkified.
If not, I'll try cat-blogging or rainbow riding unicorns shi'it'n skiddles picture posting.
Hat tip bbc.
