operation of the Navy. That item or rank was the position of the Chief Petty Officer. As I entered service I quickly discovered that the Chief was the go to guy and the old saying “ask a chief” had a profound meaning. The Chief was a leader, mentor, and an expert in just about everything, all qualities that I lacked at the time. Then, twelve or so years later, the life changing event for me of being selected as a Chief Petty Officer in the US Navy came to fruition. It was near the end of a typical long
Few things in this world stand out and have a life changing impact to significantly alter the course of one’s own self. The value that the Chief Petty Officer Academy (CPOA) provided was one in which will never be paralleled again. Walking in to a completely new world of opportunity and responsibility as a brand new Chief Petty Officer, there is no better introduction to the depth and magnitude of what is now expected from me as well as my peers and our collective role as a Chiefs Mess. Transitioning
Petty Officer Bell is a leader with boundless ability to adapt to various platforms and operational needs. He directly leads from the front with his Sailors and delivers mission success to NCTS Far East. At the same time, he provided much needed mentoring and training to Sailors further enhancing mission readiness and capability to Forwarded Deployed Naval Forces. - As the Leading Petty Officer for the two largest departments at NCTS Far East during Fiscal Year 2015, he was overall responsible
Chief Petty Officer Academy offered me the opportunity to reflect on my career in the United States Coast Guard. It afforded me time to recount the years I spent serving with other leaders. The information I have gathered from the academy has helped me to make a conscious decision on what type of leadership style I think will suit me best. The Coast Guard is an unparalleled organization that prides itself on being the most well managed group of members serving this country. As a Chief Petty Officer
Chiefs Petty Officer Academy (CPOA) is an extremely effective tool to help refine leadership and understand one’s self. The CPOA course offers a vast opportunity for self reflection and learning how to communicate with a multitude of different personalities. There were a plethora of topics taught during the 5 week course; however the topics that had the greatest influence and inspiration for me personally were the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), Disc profile, and ropes course.
and effect pattern of organization enable me to complete anywhere from 10 to 25 equitably ranked job evaluations (Friedlander, n.d.). Below is the evaluation for my top Chief Petty Officer Hospital Corpsman (HMC) performer, Chief John Jones, Manpower Analyst. Responsibilities of the Job The position of Chief Petty Officer Hospital Corpsman (HMC) Manpower Analyst is located within Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), Director Total Force (M-1) under supervisory control of the Director, Military
amazingly - in his attaining the rank of Master Diver. In the fall, Twentieth Century Fox will release The Diver, the story of Brashear's struggle. Cuba Gooding Jr. stars as Brashear. The film also stars Robert DeNiro as Billy Sunday, a senior officer and Master Diver who is at first another obstacle, but who ultimately helps Brashear overcome his crippling injury, as well as racism, bureaucracy. Brashear joined the Navy in 1948 at the age of 17. The film follows his acceptance into dive school
Men of Honor Although it may be difficult to believe that a man who was once pronounced dead on arrival could later become the first amputee diver to serve in the U.S. Navy as well as the first African-American to reach Master Diver status, Carl Brashear is the man who did just that. The movie Men of Honor, released in 2000, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Robert DeNiro, only touches on the tremendous adversities that Carl Brashear has faced throughout his life. His story is one of struggle and
start drinking after that. I used his death as an excuse to drink exactly the way I wanted to: uncontrollably. The Navy didn't cause my alcohol abuse. I brought it with me. No Sailor initiated my alcohol abuse, no overbearing chief or leading petty officer, no long deployments or crazy working hours. Sometimes I could drink a couple of beers, play video games, and go to sleep. Other times I would unpredictably black out at the most inopportune times, and the people around me identified this behavior
The green flag drops on the first race in The National Dirt Racing Association(NDRA). It doesn’t matter where people go, on some little road in a small town, people will find a small dirt track. The speedways are mostly always located in city areas where a large amount of people live. After a weekend of racing the teams head to the shop to fix the car up again. Despite the fact, that racing had been around since before 1978; whenever Mr. Robert Smawley introduced NDRA, and later Mr. Bill France
having two commercials in the 2004 Super Bowl. He is the only other person to do this since Muhammad Ali.(Fleischman 7). Also, Dale’s father and brother are the only father and two son in history to start in a Cup race since Lee, Richard, and Maurice Petty in 1960(Fleischman 8). He also helped many kids by teaching them how to drive a NASCAR car, saying this quote, “I learn as much from them as they do from me,”(Fleischman 14). Even though he Dale felt more comfortable in his role in racing and as a
many evolution have been happen to the ships, equipment used and navigation style. Now the ship officer has myriad of marine navigation equipment which makes his life a lot simpler compare to older times where the ship navigation officer had to take help of unconventional ways to plan and navigate a voyage at sea. Some improvement also made to the maritime
First I want to say that I was a little hesitant in choosing this book. The saying that “you can’t judge a book by its cover” certainly holds true for this book. When seeing the size of the book, I thought that there was no way I would be able to read this book in ten days. The cover shows what I thought was a hot air balloon. The first connection I made with the book were from the images on the cover. I visualized images of Wizard of Oz before I even opened to the first page. As I read the book
Safety in Auto Racing Thesis: Auto racing is becoming a safer sport with all of the new innovations introduced in the past couple of years including the caught fence, safety barrier, and Han’s device. When someone goes to a race track what they really want to see is the wrecks. They want to see a car flipping over or even catch on fire. Even though it might look awesome from the outside of the car, inside the car it's extremely dangerous. The community of auto racing is working altogether to create
Prohibition, and the development of the sport NASCAR NASCAR wasn’t always one of America’s favorite things to watch or a multimillion-dollar sport. It was actually inspired by criminal activity during the twentieth century. How racecars became part of American life goes back to the early days of prohibition and how gangsters avoided the law. During this time temperance organizations wanted to restrict or abolish the consumption of alcoholic beverages. By the early 20th century, women’s groups throughout
“Into the Great Wide Open” How many people try to make it big but don’t succeed? A character named Eddie, had just moved to Hollywood, got a job as a Bouncer then made it to the music industry, he was famous. Then something went wrong and he hit rock bottom. Tom Petty’s narrative poem, “Into the Great WIde Open,” tells a story of Eddie and his short time of fame, using changing tones, and realistic events. Tom Petty’s song tells a story about a rockstar named Eddie, rise and demise from fame. When
Racing Her Way Into History “I just understand that if you put the hard work in before you go out there that you can have a little peace of mind knowing that you’ve done everything you can and just let it happen.” Danica Patrick had been a very powerful role model to women everywhere. She has changed history and society for women by being the first woman to win the Daytona 500 poll or any NASCAR premier series event, breaking the NASCAR barrier between men and women, and also winning Japan’s Indy
Imagine endless parties, a girlfriend, a taste of stardom, and what seems like an endless rock and roll dream, and then you lose it all. This is exactly what happens in Tom Petty’s song “Into the Great Wide Open” when Eddie moves to Hollywood, California to try and make it big in the music industry. Tom Petty’s narrative poem “Into the Great Wide Open” has a shifting tone and tells the story of a realistic life of a rockstar. Tom Petty’s “Into the Great Wide Open” is a narrative poem that tells
I went to see a solo musician by the name of Jay Bowcott, a Calgarian who relocated to Medicine Hat about ten years ago with his family. The show was at Mikey’s Juke Joint here in the Beltline in Calgary. Mikey’s is a small place that is modeled after a 1930s era barrelhouse complete with rough wood floors, distressed copper tabletops and a matching copper bar. The concert wasn’t officially titled “Constant Rain” even though it was part of a small tour to promote Jay’s recently released album. The
Actor Paul Newman and Kyle and Pattie Petty are the founders of Victory Junction Gang Camp (VJG). The beautiful, natural setting for the VJG is seventy-two acres of land nestled in a hardwood forest. The camp is located in Randleman, North Carolina, approximately fifteen miles outside of Greensboro. Nestled in the foothills of the Piedmont Triad, this site offers a forest with several creeks and woodland streams running through the property. Richard Petty donated the land to VJG. When the ground