SNFO Primary...how long?

[ea6bflyr]

Let's be honest. If you can stop the clock for this reason or that, then it's not really time to train. It's a myth. Bottom line is this: TTT should equal the total # of days you took to finish that block of training accounting for everything. The bean counters have it wrong when they are looking at just reducing the TTT number to as small as it can be and by messing it up by allowing for "holds" and other things that don't count. Our preceious Flight Doc Time (and yes in TW6 our Docs do more than just fly when they are in the spaces) should not be wasted doing admin drills to start and stop TTT clocks. What we have here is a failure in the system in which the bean counters data mis-management is starting to drive the boat vice the operators.

B'ster,
Welcome to AW. Yes the system is not perfect. The MNTS system is not perfect. I agree that total TTT should be from start to fleet or even start to FRS. But we are constrained by the system and if we are told to make lemonade with limes, we do it. Damn MNTS, FULL SPEED AHEAD!

-ea6bflyr

 

[Uncle Fester]

The TTT fictions reflect what's happening in the Navy at large. Whenever you assign a metric as a goal, and become boresighted on acheiving a fixed number as opposed to subjective analysis based on education and professional experience and judgement...the purpose becomes massaging reality to fit the numbers, not the other way around.

But then, we've become a military of systems analysts and engineers; unless we can assign an objective number value to a quantity, it's somehow not "real".

 

[ea6bflyr]

Fester, you've hit the nail on the head: the Military loves quantitative vice qualitative.

-ea6bflyr