Turns out you could also just do your fucking job and be satisfied with the knowledge you did your fucking job. All this chest-lettuce crap is another layer of bureaucracy that takes time/money/effort away from executing the mission. Ever chop 200+ FLOC/LOC/NAM/COM 1650's and writeups because everyone gets a participation ribbon at the end of a deployment? 2 months into a 7 month deployment?! All of which were written by ABE's and ABH's? FML
This award process is broken and has turned into an end of season soccer awards ceremony for 8 year-olds driven by a broken Eval process that doesn't allow us to actually promote the most valuable Sailors because "God forbid they pass someone ahead of them."
This award process is broken and has turned into an end of season soccer awards ceremony for 8 year-olds driven by a broken Eval process that doesn't allow us to actually promote the most valuable Sailors because "God forbid they pass someone ahead of them."