Or, at least..
"For Godsakes Lois, get off your ass and do some parenting!"
(Pickle and I call each other Lois a lot around this house)
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Being the FNG (Surviving rites of passage in your first squadron)
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"For Godsakes Lois, get off your ass and do some parenting!"
(Pickle and I call each other Lois a lot around this house)
No...it's Chief Select...trust me...
I had my head up my ass and didn't see the nametag...but he was cool about it, not a dick or anything.
Well played
Scoolbubba, you will always be retarded to me....
Pickle, good post, I got a chuckle out of envisioning you running around the squadron. I just find that this post would be comedic "gold" if it found its way to the Bulls for your hail and farewell....
Scoolbubba, you will always be retarded to me....
Pickle, good post, I got a chuckle out of envisioning you running around the squadron. I just find that this post would be comedic "gold" if it found its way to the Bulls for your hail and farewell....
That's okay...the O-4's in my squadron have already discovered it...I'm sure some grief is in order soon.
Fvcking hinges! .... oh wait...the O-4's in my squadron have already discovered it...I'm sure some grief is in order soon.
webmaster beat me to it. i guess age and experience wins this time.
And on the fourth day...
So it turns out there is a little more to SDO than I realized...okay a LOT more.
Instead of being the glorified phone receptionist of VT past, we actually do stuff and have responsibility. The PQS for SDO is about 3 pages, and is actually pretty well designed. The whole point is that you are, basically, working directly for the CO ensuring completion of the Flight Schedule and daily running/good order/safety of the squadron.
I had a good bit of reading this morning, from the SDO binder to the Mishap Plan, and a crash course on Sitrep/Message writing...(Template, chop, rewrite, chop, finish,send...) Then it was off to meet many of the players you deal with on a daily basis of SDO'ing (MO/OPSO/Legal O/Safety) to get their take on what you will be doing...although I think the best advice was not so much knowing "what to do" as it is "knowing where to look" to find out what to do and who to call.
If any of you are the FNG in the future be sure to get a really good, in depth understanding of these responsibilities...it seems like SDO can be a quick way to make yourself look like a real douchebag in front of the head office and DH's...or you can look like you have a good head on your shoulders and can handle the "adaptability/flexibility" that comes with having responsibility in a squadron...Have a plan, have the answer, know who has the answer,or be able to find it very quickly...and don't let the CO gt surprised because you kept him in the dark...
And on a final note, it IS a small Navy...sometimes you find out how small that Navy is when you hear about your posts, second hand, from other people in the squadron that you didn't know were on AW's...which means what you post DOES get read by people that DO directly impact your life...and hopefully you haven't said anything regrettable, foolish, or made yourself out to be any more of a douchebag than you really are...
I guess I'll find out soon...
Pickle
So it turns out there is a little more to SDO than I realized...okay a LOT more.
Instead of being the glorified phone receptionist of VT past, we actually do stuff and have responsibility. The PQS for SDO is about 3 pages, and is actually pretty well designed. The whole point is that you are, basically, working directly for the CO ensuring completion of the Flight Schedule and daily running/good order/safety of the squadron.
I had a good bit of reading this morning, from the SDO binder to the Mishap Plan, and a crash course on Sitrep/Message writing...(Template, chop, rewrite, chop, finish,send...) Then it was off to meet many of the players you deal with on a daily basis of SDO'ing (MO/OPSO/Legal O/Safety) to get their take on what you will be doing...although I think the best advice was not so much knowing "what to do" as it is "knowing where to look" to find out what to do and who to call.
If any of you are the FNG in the future be sure to get a really good, in depth understanding of these responsibilities...it seems like SDO can be a quick way to make yourself look like a real douchebag in front of the head office and DH's...or you can look like you have a good head on your shoulders and can handle the "adaptability/flexibility" that comes with having responsibility in a squadron...Have a plan, have the answer, know who has the answer,or be able to find it very quickly...and don't let the CO gt surprised because you kept him in the dark...
And on a final note, it IS a small Navy...sometimes you find out how small that Navy is when you hear about your posts, second hand, from other people in the squadron that you didn't know were on AW's...which means what you post DOES get read by people that DO directly impact your life...and hopefully you haven't said anything regrettable, foolish, or made yourself out to be any more of a douchebag than you really are...
I guess I'll find out soon...
Pickle
My first squadron also had a "duty Chief" (a watchbill of which CPO was "on call" on which days). I had always figured when everybody went home it was the ASDO and SDO until I had been in the squadron for about two years and somebody in the command got arrested on my duty day. Lucky for me it was a pretty good CPO who was on that night and I got his advice before I talked to the Skipper. Best of all I actually did my job right!
A duty Chief, whowoulddathunkit? One of those "duh... of course... it all makes sense" moments. (I still have those moments...)
Too bad no one mentioned that earlier.
No. The JO instructors stand duty.
That's freaking gay. SDO here is all RPs.
It's flippin' sweet.