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Navy can eliminate the load by writing honest fitreps from day one. Everyone walks on water at the E5 level and all have a warfare pin by the time they are a E3. Really?

In accordance with NAVADMIN 268/10, the Navy mandates that all Sailors receive their primary warfare pin no later than 30 months after reporting aboard a warfare qualifying command. MCPO Mark Burns we both know that this was a standard that subs always used and they did not cheapen their warfare program because non-rates qualified. In fact, their Sailors were all qualified to fight the ship in case of danger and I maintain that ships in the Pac FLeet MAY have benefitted from this practice as well if they did not adhere to the NAVADIM.

Having said that, I fully agree that our evaluation system reeks! we have very few honest evaluations in our Navy and that goes for ALL levels. It may be time to take the evaluation marks out of the advancement system and maybe then we will get honest ones, at least for advancement to E-6 and below! Since the entire service record goes to the board for E-7 and above, I am really not sure how we fix their evals but willing to listen! Any board members out there with insight?

CMDCM Gene Treants - No arguments out of sub sailor quals. Surface is what I was referring too. AN E3 with a SW pin but could tell you what's on the mast is another. Yes there are hot runners, I met a few who could muster with the best of the old salts. I think we'd like to see all with a full ribbon rack and X 3 warfare pins before their first hitch. Just saying hasting the process may give a few false hopes or dreams. For fitreps. When ADM Boorda introduce the new fitrep system , it was good. a 3.0 sailor E4 or E5 was good like 01, 02 or 03 was still good to be 3.0. But it didn't take long for the politics play into it. By accident I saw and read a 03 ring knockers fitrep. In short he should have been the CNO base on the 5.0 and walks on Jesus write up. He was a smart guy but an average sailor at that time. If everybody walks on water then we should not see all the SNAFUS today. I can only imagine the selection baords but some of them have those walks on water fitreps too.

MCPO Mark Burns - The thing is Surface now (along with all other Warfare areas) have a mandate to allow all Sailors to try to qualify in the areas they are stationed within 30 months. IF said Sailor fails to qualify, s/he may NOT be promoted. That goes for all Sailors E-1 to E-8 at a new Warfare command. It also applies to all E-9s up to and including the newly appointed Command Master Chief of that Command.

Just like Subs, we want all of our Sailors on Surface Ships to be able to fight the SHIP wherever they might be in case of an emergency. I can only hope that ESWS Quals are run like mine were and never gundecked. If Sailors on all Ships are truly qualified, then I want everyone to earn and wear their pins proudly.

PO Maynard, I retired in 1992 and back then it was fat drunk chiefs and if you weren't a graduate of alcohol rehabilitation school you were put behind those that did because the majority of those sitting on the boards were.

CPO David Marlowe ouch! I had that coming. But, I did find that fact in my supervisory chain if command as a petty officer. I knew I wouldn't make it far in the Navy because the rule breakers wrote the evals and conducted the inspections.

I wrote my own evals for 7 years, word for word by multiple CPO 's.
I made a point of not doing that when I got my anchor. My only problem happened when a 2nd Class left his eval input empty. His eval reflected his lack of participation.