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From reading OP's other posts on the first page, I think it's more likely that the OSO has told OP that he's not a good candidate for an officer program and is presenting him some other options for service.

Eh, yes and no. Being higher ranking means they're more responsive if you waive the bullshit flag on something that doesn't make sense, and they're less likely to treat you with the entering argument that you're faking illness to get out of work.

The military has most of the critical elements of socialism, especially for junior enlisted. Socialism =/= government handouts; people in soviet Russia were conscripted to work after high school and those who couldn't or refused were denied benefits and sometimes jailed. The country has had long...

That seems to be the going fad by using the phrase 'people of color' to refer to all racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. Regardless, are you claiming that the 6% of Asians in the U.S. are oppressing the 13% of blacks, and that's why educational and income disparities exist? Do you realize...

No, it's not obvious because that hypothesis doesn't explain why Asians have a median household income of $98k, Indians have a median income of $100k, while whites have a median household income of $70k. It doesn't explain why hispanics outperform blacks in median household income by 25% ($51k...

I think the first step is to stop using a more verbose version of a 1950s phrase for black people to lump all minorities together. I don't think that we have to get down to every individual level. However, I think that if we parsed by race / ethnicity, and also by the region of the nation where...

I think it's important to understand that people who experienced the civil rights movement and subsequent backlash on both sides are still alive today. Although from a law perspective the civil rights movement was successful, I don't think that an entire generation of Americans suddenly changed...

It doesn't. I thought your question was about the general public, not specific authors and founders of the movement.

It's simple - they heard or read a distilled interpretation of it, cherry picked the parts they liked (i.e. speaking out against systemic racism), and hopped on the bandwagon. It's kind of like supporting Nazism because it stood for the unification of Germany while ignoring all of the racism and...

Because that's not the tenent of critical race theory. They argue that the liberal concept of equality of treatment is insufficient to combat racism. Not every ascriber to CRT may believe this, just like not every Democrat believes in medicare for all, but the debate is over the official...

A large part of the problem is that the term "extremism" is stupid. It's supposed to be synonymous with terrorism, not a term used to dismiss opinions that are not mainstream.

Honest question: Is it possible that the book is on the CNO reading list because it was directed by SECNAV or SECDEF and the CNO is just falling on the sword here?

I apparently have a 0.02x chance of dying as the average person. Furthermore, I have an absolute mortality rate of 0.5 per 10,000,000. I'm scared. I think I'm going to petition to telework, keep my kids home from school, and buy all the toilet paper. Note: I'm sure this calculator is very...

Asking someone if they are vaccinated is an underhanded way of asking them "are you the reason that the government is taking away my rights?" It completely misses the point that the person's vaccination status is A) private information and B) has nothing to do with political stupidity.

I wasn't aware that the preponderance of American society attends grade school over the age of 18. Thanks for the insight.

Have some kids and report back.

If you say so. In my experience, kids learn that people of different colors are 'different' in school. My kids know relatives who speak very little English and never asked a thing about them until...yep... some teacher told them some bullshit. They all 'look white,' so eventually there will be...

It's ultimately irrelevant what the majority believes. What's relevant is that the decision matrix of a typical school administrator is going to prioritize the path of least resistance, which means placating the loud minority.

I don't. Do you really think that > 50% of white American families sit their kids down to have 'a talk' about different races? That > 50% of families regularly disparage minorities and use racial slurs in the household? If not, then the difference is made up in school.

Ironically, this is how most kids learn racism. Before assignments like this, the brown kid sitting next to them is just another kid.

It's almost like the disease kills old and fat people.

The amount of double-speak by national political leadership has been very frustrating. They spent the last year and a half on a media campaign to scare everyone into not doing anything, and as recently as last month paraded Dr. Fauci on TV to tell vaccinated people to wear two masks because of...

Weight lifting isn't bad, just understand that the PT you'll do at OCS will be more focused on calisthenics and muscular endurance (e.g. holding a down push-up position, planks, etc.) If you weight lift in the 3-6 rep range then shifting to a routine with an 8-12 rep range would probably be...

We should officially rename COVID-19 restrictions 'Karen laws.' No one follows them (including Karens) unless in an environment where Karens can judge them.

No I don't. Please follow along here: I don't know why we should care about climate change. If plastics in the ocean doesn't cause climate change, then clearly that's outside the scope of my position.

Can you explain the mechanism by which plastic in the ocean changes the Earth's temperature?

Because we already have through legislation that implemented more strict emissions standards. Do you have any evidence that the current standards aren't good enough? The point I'm making is that whether LA's smog changed the climate in Germany (notional example) is irrelevant here because the...

The thing about extremism is that it's extreme, so it's really easy to recognize it when you see it (in spite of lots of gnashing of teeth that the DOD hasn't defined it, which could be as easy as just referring to the FBI's list - they use the phrase 'domestic terrorist'). Groups like the KKK...

Pollution is a red herring to climate change here. It's entirely possible to have localized areas of high pollution that harms people yet aren't large enough to impact the global climate. If we can show data that certain emissions standards and waste disposal standards lead to lower incidence of...

I know I was being hyperbolic, but what risk are we mitigating here? Harp seals losing their iceburgs? Global warming? The public debate over climate change largely seems to revolve around whether or not it exists. I'm not really sold on what dangers to people, near or long term, we're really...

If you say there's no problem then it's proof that there's a problem.

Yes it was sarcasm. Too late to edit the /s. It seems like pretty much anytime SECDEFs name appears in the news lately it's related to either extremism or sexual assault. Just don't tell Congress that you don't think extremism is a problem. It might not go well.

I'm confused. Why should I care about climate change? Are we really arrogant enough to think that humans alone can make the Earth uninhabitable in the next 1,000 years?

No. They left it up to the installation commanders, figured that following local guidelines was sufficient, and moved onto other problems.

The DOD guidance that the FRAGORD implemented wasn't specific to the Navy. It just wasn't a big deal to other services so it wasn't enforced as vigorously; they are more concerned with tackling a white supremacy problem that we mostly don't have to deal with.

Absolutely. Brought up an issue that we've been dealing with far too long and it helped result in action. I can't answer for sure. I would guess one reason is because it took a while for the data to build up, and the vaccine's effectiveness was not proven longer than 3 months at the time it...

For the Navy, the restrictions in the FRAGO signed out by USFFC only apply to HPCON C. For the other services largely ignoring the issue, probably nothing.

I wouldn't necessarily call an Op-Ed on USNI 'bad press.' That the scuttlebutt that we can't lift restrictions for immunized individuals because it's not legal was just that - scuttlebutt.

http://www.sailorbob.com/files/SECNAVCOVIDGuidanceDelegationMemo30APR.pdf http://www.sailorbob.com/files/OSD003544-21RESFinal.pdf What bad press are you referring to?

The one that says immunized sailors and marines may not be subject to restrictions any higher than HPCON B, regardless of installation HPCON level.

Did SECNAV sign an illegal order today?

The guidance might be coming from a flag. The current guidance gives flag officers the ability to delegate out of area leave approval to unit COs, but in my neck of the woods they did so with clear "you will not approve leave if..." stipulations. One of those is if the county the member wants to...

I feel like a "hey, we all know that you don't have to wear a mask to be safe once you've been vaccinated, but since it's not practical (or legal) to check for vaccination status at every private venue we're asking everyone to wear a mask indoors until enough vaccines have been produced so that...

Oh. Yeah, I agree. Classic case of rules for thee and not for me. I think this is splitting legal hairs. What is actually going on is that CO can't cut PO3 Timmy on 5 days of leave out of area because the ship can't spare the additional 14 days of ROM, but he can cut vaccinated PO3 Jones on 5...

Yes. Ultimately, the SECDEF cares about the POTUS's opinion on the matter, and the service chiefs are making policy from that guidance. From the SECDEF, we currently have an active stop-movement order and a mask mandate for military installations; neither of these include exceptions for...

I think the implicit assumption is "if everyone got the vaccine, we could return to normal." That's what leads to the angst / negative judgment. So far, our federally elected leaders are not demonstrating that assumption is true.

The new COVID-19 mask guidelines are functionally not any different from the old ones, just re-worded with a stop light chart to go with it. I'm more concerned about the implications on military policy; namely, that vaccinations won't relieve the intense liberty restrictions placed on sailors...

That's pretty much what I was saying - encouraging previously infected people to get vaccinated has less to do with immunology and more to do with getting rid of an impossible math problem.

People have been infected with COVID-19 for over a year and a half. The data and information is there; we're just either choosing not to study it or choosing not to make the results part of public discussion. When we're rolling out a vaccine in limited supply, it would make sense to prioritize...

Eh, the implicit thing I was griping against is two-fold: first, that the information campaign for getting the vaccine has not been completely honest about the status of research for the vaccine's effectiveness. Telling people the truth that we don't know if the vaccine works longer than 6...