Here are some submarine-related tidbits that have come out in the last week or so:
1) The
CO/XO and
DH screening messages came out. Everyone on them is so young that I have nothing to add to the traditional "I can't believe that puppy-molester screened" conversation Submariners have. That being said, if you do have something to add, please don't use names in the comments.
2)
CDR Salamander had
a post about a letter sent out by the CNO directing NAVSEA 08 to "stand up a Navy-wide working group" to reduce administrative overhead. I remember the last such initiative, under ADM Boorda. I remember how there was a message from the CNO directing that one particular program (the part of the ORSE Admin requirement that required A-gang participation) be cancelled immediately. I remember how, at the next ORSE (not officially an NR program, of course, but everyone knows the score on that one), they asked me for these records, and I gave them the message from the CNO from 9 months earlier saying it had been canx'd. I clearly remember how the ORSE board member (look, I didn't capitalize it! Man, that's liberating) said he'd never heard of such a thing. Figuring this would happen, I then gave him the records, since I knew that NR would never let something as insignificant as a direct written order from the CNO get in the way of their ORSE Admin requirements.
That being said,
ADM Richardson has been known to be interested in
reducing unneeded admin, so we'll see if this initiative comes to anything. Heck, it might even be more successful than the clearly doomed-to-almost-immediate-worthlessness of the
new "21st Century Sailor office".
3) USS Cheyenne (SSN 773)
got back from a WESTPAC! Subic Bay, Pusan, Yoko, and Guam. I've seen worse sets of port visits.
4) Looks like vehicle decals for Navy bases are going to be
a thing of the past as of next month.
5) Hey, we should launch a discussion about the U.S. government intercepting communications on a submarine blog! Not.
6) THE NAVY IS
GETTING RID OF ALL-CAPS MESSAGES.
7)
Scandal or non-event? I'm thinking that, as most submarines are commanded by O-5s and we still call them "Captain", it's not a big deal.
Update 1518 18 June: 8) A Brit officer becomes just the 2nd UK officer to
earn American gold dolphins.
Read the complete post at http://bubbleheads.blogspot.com/2013/06/light-weekend-reading.html
Posted
Jun 15 2013, 08:23 PM
by
The Stupid Shall Be Punished