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JustinHEMI05:
thesparo,

Welcome to the site. Just be careful with the terminology until you get to know it. :) But I think you realize that by now.

Anyway, as a former EOOW trainer (officer trainer) I have seen many different types of officer students come through the pipeline. Some super smart but unable to handle the "stress" of a maneuvering watch, some super "dumb" but could stand one hell of a watch. Some with MIT degrees but washed out, some with a little community college and no name state school 4.0 the course. Some from the Academy that were some of the coolest people I ever had the pleasure to serve with and some that had a the longest, thickest stick they could find where the sun don't shine. Point is, there are many many unique backgrounds in the program and in my experience, those that do the best are those that are humble, respectful and genuinely interested in hearing what their instructors have to say. Those that do the worst and probably have unsatisfying, bitter careers were those that had the big chips on their shoulders and thought they could push their butter bar around by doing silly things like ordering me to give them a check out (biggest mistake of their lives until that point, I tell you) or not listening to my guidance in maneuvering. Anyway, point is that although you are special to your Mom, you aren't special to anyone in the program until you prove yourself. I think you know this by now and the choice of what type of officer you may be someday is up to you. As rough as the advice can be here sometimes, its only because people genuinely want to see you succeed and sometimes abrupt course corrections are in order. :)

Good luck and thanks for your interest!


Justin

mlslstephens:

--- Quote from: thesparo on Apr 15, 2008, 06:14 ---I'll just be quiet now and do some research  :-X

***EDIT: Just found out I had the Mustang thing completely backwards!
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LOL  :P

No problem.  I think you will do just fine with your attitude.  FYI

In the Navy, a Mustang is an Officer who has promoted up from the ranks of Navy enlisted personnel through an in-service procurement program, with no interruption of his/her active duty status. It is also understood that the Mustang Officer was a career Sailor, and normally wears one or more Good Conduct Medals.

Thus, the Navy Mustang is either a Navy Limited Duty Officers (LDO), a Chief Warrant Officers (CWO), or commissioned through the Direct Fleet Accession, Seaman to Admiral (S2A) program, or through the Enlisted Commissioning Program.  taken from http://navymustangs.com/whatis.phtml

mlslstephens:

--- Quote from: JustinHEMI on Apr 15, 2008, 08:13 ---thesparo,

Welcome to the site. Just be careful with the terminology until you get to know it. :) But I think you realize that by now.

Anyway, as a former EOOW trainer (officer trainer) I have seen many different types of officer students come through the pipeline. Some super smart but unable to handle the "stress" of a maneuvering watch, some super "dumb" but could stand one hell of a watch. Some with MIT degrees but washed out, some with a little community college and no name state school 4.0 the course. Some from the Academy that were some of the coolest people I ever had the pleasure to serve with and some that had a the longest, thickest stick they could find where the sun don't shine. Point is, there are many many unique backgrounds in the program and in my experience, those that do the best are those that are humble, respectful and genuinely interested in hearing what their instructors have to say. Those that do the worst and probably have unsatisfying, bitter careers were those that had the big chips on their shoulders and thought they could push their butter bar around by doing silly things like ordering me to give them a check out (biggest mistake of their lives until that point, I tell you) or not listening to my guidance in maneuvering. Anyway, point is that although you are special to your Mom, you aren't special to anyone in the program until you prove yourself. I think you know this by now and the choice of what type of officer you may be someday is up to you. As rough as the advice can be here sometimes, its only because people genuinely want to see you succeed and sometimes abrupt course corrections are in order. :)

Good luck and thanks for your interest!


Justin

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Justin is right on!  K to ya.

Not to belabor the point Justin made, but more to second his thoughts.  In my last job, I had the pleasure of counseling young O-gangers who had problems making it through the pipeline.  85% of the Ensigns I counseled who were struggling had GPAs in the 3.4 - 3.6 range.  Prototype is a far cry from "Canoe U".  My job also gave me the privilege to see the Navy's finest people conduct training in some many different environments.  To see the genuine concern of the staff and the enormous amount of extra hours poured into each shift week.  However, some of my favorite moments were watching the officers with attitudes get completely humbled in the box.  Justin, great post and I know I've said it before, but thanks for doing what you did at the toughest shore duty assignment in the Navy.  As a Senior Watch Officer in the fleet several years ago, I benefited from your hard work.  Thanks.

JustinHEMI05:

--- Quote from: NaVLI4 on Apr 15, 2008, 08:31 ---Justin is right on!  K to ya.

Not to belabor the point Justin made, but more to second his thoughts.  In my last job, I had the pleasure of counseling young O-gangers who had problems making it through the pipeline.  85% of the Ensigns I counseled who were struggling had GPAs in the 3.4 - 3.6 range.  Prototype is a far cry from "Canoe U".  My job also gave me the privilege to see the Navy's finest people conduct training in some many different environments.  To see the genuine concern of the staff and the enormous amount of extra hours poured into each shift week.  However, some of my favorite moments were watching the officers with attitudes get completely humbled in the box.  Justin, great post and I know I've said it before, but thanks for doing what you did at the toughest shore duty assignment in the Navy.  As a Senior Watch Officer in the fleet several years ago, I benefited from your hard work.  Thanks.



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You're welcome. :)

Justin

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