Posted on Aug 12, 2015
SFC Stephen King
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Think about this are you irreplaceable or is their someone else that can do what you do are doing or planning to accomplish in this life?

Thus if you have a understanding that all people are replaceable it can help with your job production?
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SCPO David Lockwood
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There are people who do a phenomenal job and then there are those who do a great job. You may miss a person because of their abilities but the job goes on without them and you will survive. That's why the Navy always taught us to train our replacements. If you were missed you didn't do your job!
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SCPO David Lockwood Absolutely true and still relevant.
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SFC Stephen King Everyone is replaceable to a limit. If you have an individual that is hording jobs and doesn't want to share in training others this is a big issue. While the individual may feel that they are providing job security for themselves, they are are setting their command and the mission up for failure. If something happens to that individual now the command will have to jump through hoops to retrain someone else while dealing with the fall out. However like SCPO David Lockwood said, in the Navy, we as leaders are taught to are constantly train our replacements. No one individual should be more important than the overall mission.
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Well said PO1!
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I concur well said and a great perspective PO1 (Join to see)
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I served on a Destroyer Tender. We had a number of skills that were sourced by one sailor. If that sailor fell out for some reason, there were troubles to be had.

Other than that, no-one, including the CO to the CNO is irreplaceable...
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LCDR Rabbi Jaron Matlow Totally agree Rabbi.
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