He gets a bad name because he's vocal about being an NFO and not only a "member of the team" but more like the guy in charge; for example, claiming a certain number of arrested landings. Many pilots don't like that, and they'll ***** about it in high-profile meetings and dinners (sat next to a bunch of them, heard the complaints). The other thing he seems to have done is adopted a lot of the modernized ethics curriculum back at the Boat School, which is way too "touchy-feely" for some hard-line types (and me, it was slightly ridiculous), hence the "horrible officer" label. Never took the guy's class but anyone who hears a young lady from the Philippines Navy talk about cattle prods being used in training recruits...and then says with a straight face "Ok, your callsign is going to be Shocker" in front of a room full of 30 guys can't be that bad, right? Like I said, worst sin has probably been the appearance of "selling out" the Tailhook generation, but I'm not far enough along in any pipeline to claim any knowledge of what this means. Any thoughts, Schnuggapup?