Re: Are these USS Kitty Hawk uniforms worth buying off eBay?

Absolutely Right Dave, thanks for clarifying and expounding on that.
Not everyone can make Chief. We don't all possess those desired
leadership qualities we look for in advancing a sailor to Chief. Being
just technically competent won't get you selected. If you don't
possess those needed leadership skills, the only other way to make it
is to "suck up" as you stated and slip through the cracks, and wind up
as an E-7, kinda like the other services. You never did get the fact
that the "brass" that writes your evals are the Chiefs? (whom in your
words are incompetent) I suppose if you woulda made it you would have
been the only competent one? See, they all sit around in the mess,
recognize who has those needed leadership skills, then proceed to
groom and write the future leaders the good evals and rankings. They
don't want an E7 technician in thier mess that can't lead. They want a
Chief in their mess. OBTW all of us CWO's/LDO's (thousands) all
"sucked up" to promote from E1 to where we are now. Glad you
enlightened us all. Thanks ;)

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 01:08:41 GMT, Dave in San Diego
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>Michael Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>  [EMAIL PROTECTED] (UUMe) wrote:
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>>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2206398881&category
>>> =36068 
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>> 
>> Four idiot stripes and still an E-6. How many watches did you fall 
>> asleep on?
>> 
>> --Mike
>> 
>
>Begging your pardon, SIR...
>
>A sixteen year corpsman in today's Navy is not unusual, as it wasn't when 
>I retired some years ago. Not everyone can make Chief, and in the current 
>competitive environment, it's not what you know, it's who gets the best 
>suck-up points. When the eval system becomes objective, and the brass who 
>write and approve them become competent, then maybe the promotion system 
>will work like it's supposed to. 
>
>Having said that, HM1 X could have been "entirely competent" at that 
>level, but still "lacking critical leadership skills mnecessary to 
>advance to Chief Petty Officer".
>
>Not all you folks make Captain; not all of us make Chief.
>
>Dave Bowles
>AT1 USN Ret
>quoted from my own evals