{"id":73859,"date":"2017-08-08T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73859"},"modified":"2017-08-08T07:49:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T11:49:02","slug":"navy-chiefs-going-to-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73859","title":{"rendered":"Navy chiefs going to sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bobo sends us a link to the Navy Times<\/a> which reports that hundreds of Navy chief petty officers are being forced into sailing the seas;<\/p>\n

The new Navy policy announced Monday will take effect immediately and aims to fill the nearly 3,000 unfilled senior enlisted billets at sea.<\/p>\n

Most of those gaps \u2014about 2,080 \u2014 are at the E-7 level. Just over 700 are for senior chiefs and almost 200 unfilled billets are for master chiefs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you make chief petty officer, I always tell them their job is going to get harder and part of it getting harder means we need you in those billets at sea, teaching those sailors,\u201d Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (SG\/IW) Steven Giordano told Navy Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t understand the problem – it’s the Navy, aren’t they supposed to be floating around on a big boat somewhere?<\/p>\n

At the crux of the problem for the senior enlisted ranks are 25 ratings that are overmanned ashore. Navy personnel officials estimate that the bulk of those being sent back to sea will come from these ratings, and new orders could be handed down within the next few months.<\/p>\n

Sailors most at risk for involuntary orders are in the following ratings: AD,AE,AM,AT,AWO,BM, CS(SS), CTI Eastern Europe, CTI Latin\/South America, CTR, EMN(SW),ETN(SS), ET(SW), FC, GM, HM, ITS, LS(SS), MMN(SW), MM(SW), PS, QM, UT, YN, YN(SS).<\/p>\n

As many as 1,100 chiefs could be packing their seabags ahead of their normal rotation, cutting short current assignments.<\/p>\n

The overmanning ashore does not stem from any mismanagement, officials say, but instead is the result of strict adherence to sea-shore flow and sea-shore rotation rules<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, if I enlisted in the Navy, I’d expect to spend my time on the water….that’s why I joined the Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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