Comments on: The Walrus and the Carpenter* http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/11/30/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:19:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dave http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/11/30/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter/comment-page-1/#comment-320111 dave Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:42:20 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6442#comment-320111 Funded OK, spent to death. Every year the defense budget is filled with PORK added not by the military but by Congress that are buying votes at home. Remember the BRACs, how many times did Congress vote to keep bases that the Pentagon ask to close. Sorry the dem's have pork barreled their way to the majority. Funded OK, spent to death. Every year the defense budget is filled with PORK added not by the military but by Congress that are buying votes at home. Remember the BRACs, how many times did Congress vote to keep bases that the Pentagon ask to close. Sorry the dem’s have pork barreled their way to the majority.

]]> By: Curtis http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/11/30/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter/comment-page-1/#comment-289724 Curtis Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:04:03 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6442#comment-289724 Nice thing about the new Navy fitrep/eval thing is that it does the board's work for them. We went from everybody is a 4.0 sailor and the write-up distinguished the wheat from the chaff to one that forces the whole command to rank every sailor against his/her peers and truly demonstrate in writing who really are the top 5% and the top 10% in any given peer group. As much as I dislike the new system it used to really bother me that I had subordinates who failed to screen for E-7 or E-8 because their evals looked like they'd been written by 12 year olds complete with misspelling, poor word usage and insane punctuation. Back in the old day I used to invite the young gentlemen into my office and show them their eval/fitrep and tell them that I could only write really really good ones or really really bad ones. I had no idea how to write mediocre. Nice thing about the new Navy fitrep/eval thing is that it does the board’s work for them. We went from everybody is a 4.0 sailor and the write-up distinguished the wheat from the chaff to one that forces the whole command to rank every sailor against his/her peers and truly demonstrate in writing who really are the top 5% and the top 10% in any given peer group.

As much as I dislike the new system it used to really bother me that I had subordinates who failed to screen for E-7 or E-8 because their evals looked like they’d been written by 12 year olds complete with misspelling, poor word usage and insane punctuation.

Back in the old day I used to invite the young gentlemen into my office and show them their eval/fitrep and tell them that I could only write really really good ones or really really bad ones. I had no idea how to write mediocre.

]]> By: Pogue http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/11/30/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter/comment-page-1/#comment-289478 Pogue Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:20:54 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6442#comment-289478 Ah, Bill, now the CW4 makes sense... Ah, Bill, now the CW4 makes sense…

]]> By: BillT http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/11/30/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter/comment-page-1/#comment-289463 BillT Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:04:47 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6442#comment-289463 And then, there's the Guard -- where superb numbers and both immediate and senior raters' comments of "Promote Immediately" don't mean squat if, at the previous year's Annual Conference, your wife happened to be wearing a gown identical to the one worn by the wife of the Adjutant General... And then, there’s the Guard — where superb numbers and both immediate and senior raters’ comments of “Promote Immediately” don’t mean squat if, at the previous year’s Annual Conference, your wife happened to be wearing a gown identical to the one worn by the wife of the Adjutant General…

]]> By: Lee http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/11/30/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter/comment-page-1/#comment-289439 Lee Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:20:11 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6442#comment-289439 Virgil Xen, we also gots that "Board" thingy for our Chiefs (E-8) Senior Chiefs (E-8), and Master Chiefs (E-9). Nothing like a peer-review to skew the numbers up, mostly they (the numbers) only serve to sort out the wheat from the chaff. Takes the time tested discerning eye of a salt crusted Master Chief to see the sublte shifts of the tell-tales on the sail to determine who shall pass on to the next "life". Oh, and then he/she had better be a damn good poker player to sell it to the whole board of aforementioned salt crusted Master Chiefs. So while the flowery verbage has its uses, there is so much more to it than that AND the numbers to make the grade. But, I'm sure strictly looking a the numbers has its advantages... Virgil Xen, we also gots that “Board” thingy for our Chiefs (E-8) Senior Chiefs (E-8), and Master Chiefs (E-9). Nothing like a peer-review to skew the numbers up, mostly they (the numbers) only serve to sort out the wheat from the chaff. Takes the time tested discerning eye of a salt crusted Master Chief to see the sublte shifts of the tell-tales on the sail to determine who shall pass on to the next “life”. Oh, and then he/she had better be a damn good poker player to sell it to the whole board of aforementioned salt crusted Master Chiefs. So while the flowery verbage has its uses, there is so much more to it than that AND the numbers to make the grade. But, I’m sure strictly looking a the numbers has its advantages…

]]> By: virgil xenophon http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/11/30/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter/comment-page-1/#comment-289305 virgil xenophon Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:44:25 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6442#comment-289305 Don't know how the Navy does it these days, but the OERs (Officer Effectiveness Rpt) we had in the AF were designed such that the numbers were primary--the word picture strickly secondary. If you had the numbers, even a less than stellar word picture didn't mean a thing until you were being compared with those with similar number scores, i.e., a glowing word picture wouldn't save you if the numbers weren't there. Don’t know how the Navy does it these days, but the OERs (Officer Effectiveness Rpt) we had in the AF were designed such that the numbers were primary–the word picture strickly secondary. If you had the numbers, even a less than stellar word picture didn’t mean a thing until you were being compared with those with similar number scores, i.e., a glowing word picture wouldn’t save you if the numbers weren’t there.

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