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Saturday, April 14, 2012
Unusual Amount Of Naval Officers Being Fired
The Navy has seen a disturbing trend in the number of commanding officers fired because of behavioral issues. About 22 were dismissed last year. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert said the specific causes run the gamut — from drinking to fraud to adultery. In response, the service is boosting leadership training at command schools. It's using the recent firings as case studies. Greenert said sexual assault also continues to be a problem among all ranks. The Navy averages one or two episodes daily.
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Imagine that !!!
22 out of how many total? 22 isn't a big number considering the total number of officers. Let's put this into perspective, please. Give me a percentage. I'll check it out for myself, but this is the problem I have with the media. Inflate something to be something it isn't. And it isn't just the Navy.
1:36 PM
Greenert said he thinks commanders with poor leadership traits make up only about 1 percent of the Navy's cadre of roughly 1,500 commanding officers.
Nonetheless, he said, the Navy is trying to make sure its younger officers who are about to take command responsibilities know the potential pitfalls of leadership. Four star admirals now visit all of the Navy's command school sessions to discuss the issue with soon-to-be commanders.
"It's a one-week course, but we spend about four hours with them to talk about the kinds of things we're seeing that cause (commanders) to fail," Greenert said. "It's not a finger pointing exercise, but it's to warn them that when you get command it's an intoxicating kind of thing. It's the Bathsheba Syndrome."
It may or may not be a large number but it does seem like it is unprecedented.
As far as other branches, I could not find anything about other CO's being fired, but I didn't look too hard.
You are welcome to search and disclose what you find.
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