Posted on Jan 17, 2016
Do you think the Navy needs to revamp the way PO's are selected and advanced?
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Should the Navy have "merit" based promotions or should we stick with our Biased Evals and tests?
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PO2 Brandon Grier - Shippie, I'd rather see the evaluation system be overhauled than the advancement system. There has to be a better way to recognize performance and there needs to be a 360 degree evaluation of leadership, technical proficiency l, and followership. I'd also like to see a fitness for higher leadership within a quantifiable strata. We have all seen that one advance who met education and community/command involvement wickets because she/he couldnt handle increased responsibilities in the shop. That's what should change.
You need demonstrated requisite knowledge and the examination process helps you show that. Do the right things - true merit will get you there. Good question - thanks for sharing!
You need demonstrated requisite knowledge and the examination process helps you show that. Do the right things - true merit will get you there. Good question - thanks for sharing!
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If they didn't promote, it was probably for PFA failure. That's the only thing I've seen. Granted, they DID make me fog the mirror twice, just to be sure.
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PO2 Robert Cuminale
LCDR Rabbah Rona Matlow - We had an Ensign who was not promoted to LTJG. Must have been his cowboy boots and all the parties at his house with the enlisted people who worked for him in the ComCtr.
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Oy vey. That I've never seen...
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I believe it should remain the way it is. We need to realize why we have this system in place. In the Navy, there isn't a one size fits all way to make advancement work where everyone comes out on top. Unfortunately, we need to maintain our budget and one of the biggest pieces of the Navy's budget is payroll. This is a very effective way of managing it as well as attrition. Just my 2 cents... :D
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SN Greg Wright
LT Michael Cavaggioni Lieutenant, what's your source for payroll being one of the Navy's largest pieces of the budget? I ask because it seems like the purchase and maintenance of hardware would be much larger.
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LT Michael Cavaggioni
Well it's not the largest but a very big portion. I will give you an example. At my current command, our payroll is 4X our operational budget... People cost money, hence the downsizing of the military as we move towards "peacetime."
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Pay and benefits accounts for approximately 25% of the DoD budget as a whole, it makes sense that for any one unit payroll would be one of the single biggest expenditures from year to year.
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CDR Kenneth Kaiser
LT Michael Cavaggioni - But good people cost the same as bad people and unfortunately we often loose good people first because they have an easier time getting employment in the civilian sector. I would think that the cost of recruiting and training replacements is a cost that is often overlooked in this equation. Our Navy is becoming more and more technology dependent. We don't get instant submariners, aviators, IT professionals, mechanics or others they have to be developed and it takes time. We talk about entering "peacetime" when if you look around, things are going to hell in a handbasket. Recruiting is a real problem and so is retention. We are becoming a social engineering project rather than a fighting force. Fewer folks are signing up. If the balloon goes up we are going to be in worse shape than we were with Japan or Korea and because of technological improvements on the part of the potential hostile forces we will not have the luxury of playing catch up.
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