Comments on: Yeah, that’ll do it http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/22/yeah-thatll-do-it/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:20:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: badbob http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/22/yeah-thatll-do-it/comment-page-1/#comment-413899 badbob Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:23:17 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/22/yeah-thatll-do-it/#comment-413899 A lesson to all the JOs or those on AD intelligent enough to decipher this..... As Skippy alludes to. Don't buddy-up with subordinates when you are in command. Command is lonely because it needs to be. You would not believe what comes out when the chips are down and the Q&A starts and when self-preservation supplants Honor. I've seen it a thousand times.... A profession REQUIRES professionalism. I know some of you enlightened newbies will think.."But my leadership" appeal transcends this type of thing from happening...WRONG. b2 A lesson to all the JOs or those on AD intelligent enough to decipher this…..

As Skippy alludes to. Don’t buddy-up with subordinates when you are in command. Command is lonely because it needs to be. You would not believe what comes out when the chips are down and the Q&A starts and when self-preservation supplants Honor. I’ve seen it a thousand times….

A profession REQUIRES professionalism. I know some of you enlightened newbies will think..”But my leadership” appeal transcends this type of thing from happening…WRONG.

b2

]]> By: Justthisguy http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/22/yeah-thatll-do-it/comment-page-1/#comment-413898 Justthisguy Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:31:12 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/22/yeah-thatll-do-it/#comment-413898 I'm with Max, here. That said, this was way extraliminal, and the falsifying of the report, well, git a rope. Military folks depend,more than most, on their comrades telling them the truth. Lie to your enemies, maybe, for necessary ruses of war, but don't lie to your own folks. I’m with Max, here. That said, this was way extraliminal, and the falsifying of the report, well, git a rope.

Military folks depend,more than most, on their comrades telling them the truth. Lie to your enemies, maybe, for necessary ruses of war, but don’t lie to your own folks.

]]> By: MaxDamage http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/22/yeah-thatll-do-it/comment-page-1/#comment-413897 MaxDamage Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:18:57 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/22/yeah-thatll-do-it/#comment-413897 I noted in the comments on the linked story somebody immediately decided the ship was a nest of alcoholics. Now it seems to me if one is an alkie joining a dry Navy probably isn't something one is interested in. Having a drink on liberty every few months doesn't quite fixate that jones, you know. On the other hand, there may be something to being at sea for six months without a drink, hitting a libery port, and over-doing it. You know, binge drinking. Seems to be a pretty common thing with college students who've only just recently become legal to drink, it sort of makes me wonder... Kind of makes me wonder if the Brits, with their grog ration, didn't have a better idea. -- Max I noted in the comments on the linked story somebody immediately decided the ship was a nest of alcoholics. Now it seems to me if one is an alkie joining a dry Navy probably isn’t something one is interested in. Having a drink on liberty every few months doesn’t quite fixate that jones, you know.

On the other hand, there may be something to being at sea for six months without a drink, hitting a libery port, and over-doing it. You know, binge drinking. Seems to be a pretty common thing with college students who’ve only just recently become legal to drink, it sort of makes me wonder…

Kind of makes me wonder if the Brits, with their grog ration, didn’t have a better idea.

— Max

]]> By: Skippy-san http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/22/yeah-thatll-do-it/comment-page-1/#comment-413896 Skippy-san Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:50:40 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/22/yeah-thatll-do-it/#comment-413896 We used to let guys in the duty section go to sunset parade receptions on Coral Sea. That way we could meet our "quota" of bodies standing around with out screwing someone out of a well earned day of liberty. That was your "watch" . You could drink-unless you had something else going later. In other words-the wardroom was treated as adults. Which is a far cry from the world of today. We used to let guys in the duty section go to sunset parade receptions on Coral Sea. That way we could meet our “quota” of bodies standing around with out screwing someone out of a well earned day of liberty. That was your “watch” . You could drink-unless you had something else going later.

In other words-the wardroom was treated as adults. Which is a far cry from the world of today.

]]> By: Lee http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/22/yeah-thatll-do-it/comment-page-1/#comment-413895 Lee Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:07:11 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/22/yeah-thatll-do-it/#comment-413895 The "there but for the Grace of God" was applied to myself. For temptation the evening I was in a similar circumstance was truly tempting... Coulda been me too. The “there but for the Grace of God” was applied to myself. For temptation the evening I was in a similar circumstance was truly tempting…
Coulda been me too.

]]> By: lex http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/22/yeah-thatll-do-it/comment-page-1/#comment-413894 lex Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:58:00 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/22/yeah-thatll-do-it/#comment-413894 That's true, but inport there's usually a duty section that acts as the first responders. That’s true, but inport there’s usually a duty section that acts as the first responders.

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