Why are you Leaving?

[Randy Daytona]

I thought the saying was luck is where opportunity and preparation meet. That would mean

Luck = Opportunity + Preparation

the corollary of which would be

Opportunity = Luck - Preparation

therefore,

The more you prepare, the less your opportunity.

Q.E.D.


(This is matches the traditional advice to enjoy Pensacola instead of studying ahead for API.)

Thanks for the catch Jim. Got distracted by my daughter pulling all of the cables on the TV and stereo......

 

[jtmedli]

Also, once a Golden Child does not necessarily mean always a Golden Child. Have seen guys who were being groomed by the CO suddenly hit full stop when the new CO came in and had his own ideas.

Or they get what they wished for and end up in-over-their-heads in some job they weren't capable of doing in the first place.

 

[Max the Mad Russian]

No kidding. CVN ship drivers suck. I've never heard a halfway decent reason why people drive a 100,000 ton ship like they are blind, deaf, and shitfaced. I think it comes down to the fact that, at the end of the day, everyone else will get out of their way...usually...

Maybe I have some kind of an answer. Definitely this have been written in Naval War College Review as in 1987 but I found the repeating publication in 1998, it's here - https://usnwc.edu/Publications/Naval-War-College-Review/ArchivedIssues/1990s/1998-Summer.aspx
A small qoute from there is attached. Look please at endnote#25, I have deliberately glued it right under the statement. This little endnote could explain something. If the carrier's bridge is akin to a poker table, it is quite understandable why "to sail in formation with a carrier is a shitty job" from average CRUDES guys standpoint. And maybe the Brits who sent a non-aviator in a CO's chair of their brand-new carrier, have read this NWC old stuff
The question remains how we can trust the long-hair Berkeley MBA teachers, but people says that a glance from outside is usually right enough