During the brief visit to NHB, MCPON met with the commanding officer, executive officer and sailor of the year.
MCPON also held an all-hands call with Sailors at NHB to discuss what was on their minds.
Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Miguel Ferrer was quick to ask about the ongoing rating name change working group led by MCPON and several master chiefs from around the fleet.
“I asked CNO if I could lead this effort because it’s going to affect just about everybody that’s sitting here,” said MCPON. “The direction has been given by the SECNAV and we want to do the best we can to provide him some good recommendations.”
“We recruited ten leaders from around the navy to represent the different communities to conduct the rating review because I wanted all of this diversity of thought in the room.”
The recommendations will be delivered to the SECNAV on April 2, 2016.
Sailors asked a variety of questions ranging from retention to the medical separation process.
During one question, MCPON took an opportunity to provide some candid advice to the Sailors. “A duty station is everything you want it to be. I’ve been in some tough duty assignments myself and I learned early on that the duty station will not make me happy, you have to make yourself happy and take every opportunity to get the best out of every duty station that you possibly can.”
The day concluded as Sailors weaved lines through the chairs to indulge in a personal photo opportunity with their senior enlisted leader.
For more news from Chief of Naval Operations, visit
www.navy.mil/local/cno/.
| Date Taken: | 03.24.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 03.25.2016 15:24 |
| Story ID: | 193552 |
| Location: | BEAUFORT, SC, US |
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