To Rob, Tim, Jerry, Sinbad, Tony

Do we really need to have every Military.Com moderator blasting us here with every half baked new forum, cooked up by some army E-7.

I thought that the general use of the "ALL Forums" button was goinmg to be reserved for really important issues, such a Jerry's posting of the Missing Personal Information.

WHAT GIVES???????????

Jack

Careful Jack. Last time I chalenged the Mil.com machine, I was exiled to a tiny island in the South Atlantic for the rest of my unnatural life.

If I want conspiracy theories, I'll watch the "Reality Channel". And it's too damned early to even think about the '08 Presidential race now.

Gotta go, the bar is open.

Mark

Jack

I think some of those might have been featured in error. When I logged on 5 minutes ago, there were three featured threads, and now were back to just Jerrys. Not sure what happened there.

T

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Originally posted by M_Wood51:
Careful Jack. Last time I chalenged the Mil.com machine, I was exiled to a tiny island in the South Atlantic for the rest of my unnatural life...Gotta go, the bar is open.

Mark

But Mark, that is just you!

Jack, I am afraid I missed something here - sounds like it was resolved.

Tim

Tim,

The author of those two posts "accidently" clicked on the "feature all" button instead of taking the time for selective featuring. As you said, it has been resolved.

Mark

Mark,

Well, when are you hitting SacTown so I can buy you some Belhaven Scottish Ale at the Fox and Goose Pub?

Marc

I was out in the field most of the day, so I missed what else was highlighted.

I will continue to highlight what I feel is important to the troops.

If I highlight something you folks feel if frivolous, just let me know.

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If I highlight something you folks feel if frivolous, just let me know.

You don't need to highlight your hair for us...





--M

Sorry, but I resemble most the other Gerald...

Jerry

Please reread my Post. Your posting of the Work Life Program missing personal information WAS and is important, to US COASTIES. AND I stated that it was important.

What I was referring to, is the ability of some other moderator from another area, blasting every Mil.com forum, with news of his new TINHAT forum, or "placing bets on 2008"

Thanks.

Jack

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Mark,

Thanks for the advice. But what are they going to do, Sent me back to Vietnam, or God forbid, CG HDQTRS?

How was the fishing??? Have one for me, Tell the barmaid to put on my tab. Stay Well.


Jack

Jack,

I always loved it when some dumb Ensign or JG thought they could intimidate me by threatening to send me to Alaska, especially before seening my service record. I spent over half my career in the 17th District, 3 tours at isolated sites, 2 on ships - all voluntary.

For me, an exile on Ascension, St. Helena (where Napoleon was exiled) or Tristan da Cunha Islands would have been preferable to a tour of duty at some **** hole like CGHQ at Buzards Point or one of the two area offices.

But that's my opinion.

Mark

Oh, and the fishing was good. Dad caught 3 and I caught 2. All medium sized Rainbow Trout. I used dry flies, Dad used Night Crawlers. Made for a couple of great meals over the campfire.

"The gods do not subtract from the time alloted to mere mortals that time spent fishing."
-Ancient Greek proverb

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For me, an exile on Ascension, St. Helena (where Napoleon was exiled) or Tristan da Cunha Islands would have been preferable to a tour of duty at some **** hole like CGHQ at Buzards Point or one of the two area offices.

My sediments eggzactly!

I wanted to stay for 30 - and would have if some HQ drone hadn't decided I would look good pouring coffee for the senior guys in EEE.
I would not have lasted 2 weeks in HQ & I knew it, so I made the counterproposal of PLEASE send me to sea. Of course the answer (no doubt intended to stroke my vanity) was that I was too senior to "have to worry about sea duty". The CG is the ultimate proof of the Peter Principle, "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence".
Without intending to blow my own horn, I was VERY good in an operational setting - ship or LORSTA - but am not now and never have been a politician. I have also never had any patience with some egotistical senior SOB who thought he could run over me or my department, so I gave up and retired.
Jerrym

Jerry,

As an SK1 I was (and I am not bragging about it) handpicked for a billet in CGHQ on the Deputy for Personnel's Budget Staff. To this day I still don't know who specifically asked for me in the job but I was even given TAD orders to DC for a week for an interview and job familiarization.

Would I have included CGHQ on a dream sheet? Not on your life! Was it a good tour of duty? One of the best I ever had; 4 man office, the GS-12 made the coffee; as he got their first; in three short years I made Chief (heck of an initiation at Sta "A" - often times an initiation a month - Al Thiele and Vince Patton's signature, along with 47 other Chiefs on my creed) then mad CWO and left. Housing was awesome; it was before they built the MCPOO-CG housing on FT Myers - the last person to live in my house at FT Belvoir was the Navy's MCPO of the Navy...2,100 square feet, attached garage, 4 bedrooms biggest duplex I ever lived in; Fairfax County Schools (some of the best in the country).

Being an E6 at CGHQ, then making Chief, and finally CWO, was good - I stayed in the same job for 3 years (they just kept giving me more duties). We "controlled" over 1 billion dollars including the pay account, Workers Comp, Fica, and FEC funds, and I was tasked with bringing the Office of Personnel and Training Divisions (the personnel side - training had their own staff) online with LUFS. We edited and prepared the final versions of all the G-P responses to Congressional Hearings, and if you had to go to HQ it was the only way! There was a "secret" HQ Society; those who had been on cutters and at operational units (The Sailors) and you could tell them readily; a 1,000 yard stare, a bit of saliva forming in the corner of their mouths when you mentioned water and afloat...

Their were three "status" symbols at HQ that set you apart from your peers; they were (still are I bet) how many people you had working for you, how much money you controlled, and most importantly, where you office was and if you had windows...my office (which I shared with a GS-11 from another division; Shirley Green was her name and she maintained the master copies of all the Personnel Manuals including Rocks and Shoals from the 20's) was on the Anacostia River (south) side of the building, was the first office next to the Admiral's Suite, we had over 1 billion dollars, and I had 2 windows overlooking Bolling AFB and Anacostia Naval Station - unimpeded view. One day a Commander walked into my office, said to me whose office is this (he really wanted to know what an SK1 was doing, sitting at a desk looking at the river). When I said well sir, it is my office, he harumphed and stomped out. I found out later he was 1. not a sailor and 2. lived in a cubicle, in the inside of the building....

During my career twilight tour at CAMSPAC in Point Reyes, California, I was the manager for the facility's COMMSYS2000 automation project which essentially removed the teletype backbone from telecommunications and replaced it with Standard Workstation (SWS-II) based routing and communications systems.

In order to serve out my penance for homesteading so many years in the 17th District during my career (over 12 years), I was sent packing TAD several times to CGHQ at Buzzard Point.

On my first TAD, my car rental was stolen. On the third time, the front driver's side window was smashed, even though I kept nothing within sight inside the car.

Needless to say, the parking situation at Headquarters sucked and sucked absolutely for anyone not wearing scrambled eggs on the visor of their combo cap.

I've already mentioned my impressing on CGHQ in another thread, especially concerning the inmates walking around the passageways (halls for you sand peaps) and residents of one cubicle not knowing the names of those in the next cubeicle over in the same room. The Radioman Detailer's eyes were bloodshot and I observed the Vice Commandant walking down the hall muttering something to no one in particular. (I don't know, perhaps he was rehearsing a "can do" or "we can do more with less" testimony before some congressional committee or something to that effect.

In the world of careerism, Buzzards Point might seem to be the ultimate career goal at the top of the mighty pyramid. But for an outsider looking in, reality indicated differently.

Leaving Reagan International Airport on the redeye flight back to San Francisco never seemed as pleasurable during that particular time frame.

Mark, the parking situation at CGHQ was abyssmal for anyone who opted to drive themselves to work; Carpools, with 3 or more occupants got to park inside the building. Rare was the day, but still nice was when the other 3 members of the car pool stayed home and you had the car all to yourself. Carpool rules were rigid and enforcment was harsh...if a car pool said they left at 1530 it meant from the garage! More then 2 minutes late you could expect to take the metro home; repeat offenders often times found themselves looking for a new carpool. The only one exempted was the who's name was on the carpool permit!

On another issue though several people spent entire (to retirement from A School) careers assigned to CGHQ. One talented CWO4 Pers started in the Commandant's Office as an SNYN and retired as a CWO4 into GS11/12 job and never left the Commandant's Office.

Mark Wood,
There is a joke I heard from a source of mine at HQ is that among some of the civilian-dominated offices there. A civilian had worked 12 years there at HQ and left for another agency. One of the civilians that works in a cube over from him said wow, he is leaving after 12 years? I was just barely getting to know him after the 11th year.

Consider also the type of civilian at HQ. Most have not only a big ego but an entitlement mentality.

That is hilarious in regards to the Vice Commandant incoherent babbling. From what I hear, you can see that once in a while among the senior officers that walk like zoombies in the HQ corridors.

A. J.