Justin,
I think her point was that alot of us on here had a huge gripe about higher ups in the COC not listening, not being informed, acting surprised when told of issues, etc. So, maybe she felt she was helping. Let her. If she feels that she can effect change from her vantage point, maybe she can, maybe not. Hell, it's better than trying to effect change through a website. ;-)
Cyclicrings,
Oh where should I begin. Ahh yes, you are a NR Engineer. So what your job entitles is that you have no NAVY experience, and you are going to come in and show us how to do things per our instructions. I don't know if you have read ANY of our RPM's, SPM's, RADCON, or Chemistry manuals yet, but as nukes, we take everything in those manuals very literally. If you put a should or a could, its optional. If you put a must, or a will, its law. As I overheard one of the fine people who wrote one of these books say, we as Navy Nukes take things way too literal, when we should be focusing on the simple requirements.
I do not know if you have seen or been trained on how NRRO performs their audits yet, but if you haven't I'm sure you are in for a surprise. Imagine if you will, seeing or issuing an audit, that the only hit on it was a "dirty catch". Then imagine taking yourself to that area, and seeing the catch has a minor layer of dust on it. If you would stand by for a few minutes, you would see a chief getting his panties all bunched up because his suboordinates did not have it spotless prior to the audit, even though less than an hour ago, there was a worker grinding in the area, creating a cloud of dust to sprinkle all over. The corrective action for this hit, was that the junior sailor was counseled, and the catch was cleaned and all compressible items were bagged as radioactive material. Wait you say, why are they making all this RAM? Just because the color of the catch is yellow.
Now thank you for your time to post on here and offer assistance, but as you can see, the problem is very deep ingrained into most levels of management because there are too few people who will tell an NRRO auditor that their hit is bogus (this is because the NRRO auditor gets to sit down and have a chat with the commanding officer of the ship after his audit).
What this program needs, is auditors that are STRICTLY by the book. Not this good practice crap. If you didn't violate any procedures, regulations, or requirements, you are within compliance. If you effectively lowered the man-rem for a job, hell get a pat on the back, not told that you still did it messed up and need to change your tactic next time.
Oh and as to my qualifications, I have spend 7 years in this company, completed one MS degree, almost done with the next MS, and yes, I have trained NR Engineers on some aspects of their job. I have seen the Navy do some terrible things to some good people, all because they couldn't "play the game" well. I have seen this same Navy commend and award buttkissers on a daily basis. You will see enough of this I am sure as well.
Oh well, enough of my ranting.....back to calling my congressman.....
Jason