Navy ETHOS

[S.O.B.]

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/10/navy_ethos_update_101308/

Hopefully we don't let the people in charge of pt gear work this initiative.

 

[Single Seat]

Wasn't "Honor, Courage, Commitment" good enough? Isn't there something more prudent do devote these man hours towards?

 

[Spekkio]

I concur w/ single seat.

"Ship, Shipmate, Self" sure is a great ethos for those of us who work on boats...

 

[picklesuit]

Calling a person "shipmate" is like saying "fuck yer mother"...I never used the term (or heard it used) except as an attention getter before an ass chewing...i.e. "Shipmate...why the fuck are you sleeping on watch?!" or "Hey Shipmate...you know that huffer-cart won't fit under the P-3, right?"

 

[phrogdriver]

When you don't have enough money to build ships, you have to find some other science projects to work on!

 

[llnick2001]

Stuff like this pisses me off (probably more than it should). It's like the Sailor's Creed. Is the oath we all already took not enough anymore?

 

[phrogdriver]

Yeah, but don't you just feel more motivated already, knowing that someone's working on the problem? :icon_tong

 

[lmnop]

Yes, new slogans are definitely the answer....

 

[HueyCobra8151]

I concur w/ single seat.

"Ship, Shipmate, Self" sure is a great ethos for those of us who work on boats...

Isn't that just the last half of the Constitutional paradigm? (ie: applicable to everyone)

 

[jt71582]

I thought it was "Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash"

Just me? Just me.

 

[Mumbles]

^
That was one of Winny Churchill's best quotes!

 

[NavAir42]

"written, all encompasing and politically correct..." Why do we need all that? I vote we go with an interpretive dance version:

 

[lmnop]

^
That was one of Winny Churchill's best quotes!

If only he had actually said it...even he wished that he had come up with that one.

 

[BlackBearHockey]

Isn't there something more prudent do devote these man hours towards?

Somewhere, a very politically correct public affairs type was just inspired. A kindler, gentler, more politically correct ethos is now in the thinking stages.

 

[robav8r]

Learned this at the AIRLANT SOY board in 1994 - "Tradition, Integrity, Professionalism." Obviously prior to our current "Honor, Courage & Commitment" ethos. Interesting note - apparently "T.I.P." NEEDED to be changed after Tailhook '91 and the "contributions" of Paula Coughlin. TRADITION was something that needed to be scrubbed from our "ethos."