Posted on May 14, 2015
Do you think these changes from the CNO will actually improve quality of life?
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1. SECNAV plans to open all operational billets to women.
2. Base day care centers to open earlier and remain open later.
3. Better co-location policies and joint service co-location policies.
4. Legislation has been proposed that will double paid maternity leave from 6-12 weeks.
5. SECNAV is planning to revamp the physical fitness assessment to include current body fat measuring techniques.
6. Beginning June 1, SECNAV is ending GMT as the Navy knows it. Stopping all DoN-directed GMT on NKO.
7. Legislation has been proposed to expand Career Intermission Program from 40 to 400 billets.
8. Meritorious Advancement Program will expand to include shore-based units.
9. Initiatives are aimed at getting the right people in the right jobs at the right time.
10. The Navy is trending toward uniforms that don't divide Sailors as male and female, but unite them.
http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/ftrStory.asp?id=87095
2. Base day care centers to open earlier and remain open later.
3. Better co-location policies and joint service co-location policies.
4. Legislation has been proposed that will double paid maternity leave from 6-12 weeks.
5. SECNAV is planning to revamp the physical fitness assessment to include current body fat measuring techniques.
6. Beginning June 1, SECNAV is ending GMT as the Navy knows it. Stopping all DoN-directed GMT on NKO.
7. Legislation has been proposed to expand Career Intermission Program from 40 to 400 billets.
8. Meritorious Advancement Program will expand to include shore-based units.
9. Initiatives are aimed at getting the right people in the right jobs at the right time.
10. The Navy is trending toward uniforms that don't divide Sailors as male and female, but unite them.
http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/ftrStory.asp?id=87095
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Several of these changes fall under the "about #%^ time!" category.
Glad to see them.
Glad to see them.
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Overall, no, I don't think it will improve quality of life. Why? Because most of these changes are couched in vague government speak.
3. Better co-location policies and joint service col-location policies.
OK, what does that mean? Better for whom? For the service members or for the government?
6. Beginning June 1, SECNAV is ending GMT as the Navy knows it. Stopping all DoN-directed GMT on NKO.
So since we're not doing it on NKO anymore does that mean more time sitting in a theater somewhere doing the "death by PowerPoint" drill to fulfill the GMT requirements?
9. Initiatives are aimed at getting the right people in the right jobs at the right time.
Isn't that the job the detailers have been supposed to be doing for years? decades?
I hope these changes do improve quality of life, but I need to see more details on what they are actually changing and not just vague promises to make things "better."
3. Better co-location policies and joint service col-location policies.
OK, what does that mean? Better for whom? For the service members or for the government?
6. Beginning June 1, SECNAV is ending GMT as the Navy knows it. Stopping all DoN-directed GMT on NKO.
So since we're not doing it on NKO anymore does that mean more time sitting in a theater somewhere doing the "death by PowerPoint" drill to fulfill the GMT requirements?
9. Initiatives are aimed at getting the right people in the right jobs at the right time.
Isn't that the job the detailers have been supposed to be doing for years? decades?
I hope these changes do improve quality of life, but I need to see more details on what they are actually changing and not just vague promises to make things "better."
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My thoughts exactly, LCDR (Join to see). I applaud them for putting forth an effort, but at the same time it's a lot of vague platitudes and double talk that offer zero specifics. I'll believe it when I see it, but hopefully it'll be a change for the better.
I had good feelings about #6 initially, then I started getting worried that they'd mandate face-to-face training. The training dink lists would grow exponentially on the reserve side if they didn't give us the option of doing GMTs on NKO or similar.
I had good feelings about #6 initially, then I started getting worried that they'd mandate face-to-face training. The training dink lists would grow exponentially on the reserve side if they didn't give us the option of doing GMTs on NKO or similar.
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