does anyone care about NKO

[LoneSailor]

.. "Math for Marines"..

Just the title alone makes you wonder if it is put in a special way of teaching Math to Marines . What a scary thought..

 

[pourts]

Curious, but why would an Air Force guy want to know about the Army NKO site, a site that has no bearing on the service in which he currently belongs and also has nothing to do with the service in which he is trying to transfer into. I'm confused.

Maybe he just wants to see for himself. You know, trust but verify. Or maybe he plans to change it once he becomes an Admiral.

How do you know about the Army's site?

 

[snake020]

Curious, but why would an Air Force guy want to know about the Army NKO site, a site that has no bearing on the service in which he currently belongs and also has nothing to do with the service in which he is trying to transfer into. I'm confused.

Seriously, what's the site?

 

[snake020]

UM..just a guess: us.army.mil

actually it wasn't a guess it is called GOOGLE get a hint.

Lazy today

Anyone know why AF portal and AKO are open to all DoD but NKO is only open to Navy?

 

[KimberlyD]

I guess I'm a little confused ab NKO. My husband redesignated to METOC & spent December on transfer leave doing hours of NKO stuff on Meteorology. He would start a course at noon & not be done until after dinner. He was told he had to do all these courses before being qualified in the new community. He has done some stupid stuff on NKO like the alcohol & defensive driving stuff (which USAA will discount your insurance for in some states) but otherwise it seems to apply a baseline of knowledge for him to build upon.

If we want to talk ab stupid Navy programs, the Reading Program should be at the top. Seriously, NCO's are reading space novels & JO's are reading Freakonomics, how does this prepare our military for anything?

 

[KimberlyD]

The World Is Flat is on my bookcase, he read it, gave it to me & told me to read it. I haven't started it yet but honestly wasn't in a rush to after reading Freakonomics & some Blackbeard book. Yes, reading stimulates the brain but I think there are better books to read, maybe TWIF has more on leadership than Freakonomics offered in information on why people choose to sell drugs.

 

[KimberlyD]

Maybe then on the premise that reading stimulates the brain, the program makes sense.

 

[e6bflyer]

Reading is important for a lot of reasons;
Makes you more intelligent (proven that your brain actually grows when you EXERCISE it)
makes you SOUND more intelligent (ie improves grammar and vocabulary)
allows you to understand what is going on in the world and how it REALLY DOES affect you
It improves your vocabulary and comprehension

C'mon...you are a mother, you should know this...it PISSES ME OFF when people hold reading in such high DISregard.

Not sure about this freakonomics stuff or whatever, but I am currently reading "The World is Flat" and I think it is an EXTREMELY important book for this day and age...any officer should read it..

Come on, man. Books are for poor people. Everybody knows that. Why read the book when you could see the movie?

 

[KimberlyD]

Come on, man. Books are for poor people. Everybody knows that. Why read the book when you could see the movie?

A better question would be "why read the book when the drive to NASP is so danged long fr Whiting & you can download the audio version?"

 

[raptor10]

Books also help to develop spelling and grammar skills.

 

[Brett327]

Leadership books are useless (you either have it or you don't)...all they are is some guy either telling people how great he is or how Fvcked up he was...economics, world events, politics...good stuff.

While I hate the whole TQL forced leadership training thing the Navy seems to go through every once in a while, you CAN learn plenty about leadership by reading. It's no different than watching good and bad leaders to see examples of what works and what doesn't. Colin Powell's autobiography has tons of stuff like that. Leadership is a combination of innate ability AND things you learn along the way from experience - actual or vicarious.

Brett

 

[squorch2]

I guess I'm a little confused ab NKO. My husband redesignated to METOC & spent December on transfer leave doing hours of NKO stuff on Meteorology. He would start a course at noon & not be done until after dinner. He was told he had to do all these courses before being qualified in the new community. He has done some stupid stuff on NKO like the alcohol & defensive driving stuff (which USAA will discount your insurance for in some states) but otherwise it seems to apply a baseline of knowledge for him to build upon.

If we want to talk ab stupid Navy programs, the Reading Program should be at the top. Seriously, NCO's are reading space novels & JO's are reading Freakonomics, how does this prepare our military for anything?

Hey Kimberly - have you read Starship Troopers? Or Freakonomics? Or Shield and Sword? Better yet, are you an officer? If not, please don't criticize the Navy Reading Program.

 

[Brett327]

I am not saying you can't learn about leadership through reading, but I think a lot of the "leadership' books are equivalent to the financial books that don't really have any "meat". I also don't consider an autobiography of a general to be under the leadership genre

Concur. Like I said (and I think we agree), the Steven Covey genre is useless. It boils down to "Let's conjure up seven leadership traits that begin with letters which form an acronym or catchy phrase."

Brett

 

[snake020]

Exactamente

"Airwarriors" é um lugar na internet para conversa sobre "Naval Aviation" do marinha dos ESTADOS UNIDOS, não o mexico, e não o brasil, assim precisa dizir em INGLÊS por favor.

 

[Brett327]

"Airwarriors" é um lugar na internet para conversa sobre "Naval Aviation" do marinha dos ESTADOS UNIDOS, não o mexico, e não o brasil, assim precisa dizir em INGLÊS por favor.

Y con quesso.

Brett