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PENSACOLA, Fla. – Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Steven Giordano met with Sailors and toured commands onboard Naval Air Station Pensacola (NASP) May 8-9.
The visit included stops at Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC), Naval Aviation Schools Command (NASC), Naval Education and Training Professional Development Center (NETPDC), Center for Information Warfare Training (CIWT) and NASP facilities.
During an all-hands call addressing hundreds of Sailors from area commands, Giordano answered questions about the proposed new evaluation system, combat action ribbons, advancement, sea-billet gaps, and the future of enlisted service records.
Giordano stressed the importance of being aware of strategic documents that shape and guide the focus of leadership and drive policy.
“Who’s heard of the Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority?” Giordano asked. “Who’s heard of the Navy Leader Development Framework?”
Information Systems Technician 2nd class Tiffani Ditzian, stationed at Navy Information Operations Command (NIOC) Pensacola, asked a question about the implementation of the new evaluation system.
“We need to re-look at this evaluation system, because right now it is very competitive and very restrictive,” Giordano said. “We know by the system itself, the numbers don’t allow us to fully identify your potential just by that metric alone.”
MCPON described how the new evaluation system will provide a leadership team the right amount of time to evaluate a Sailor on individual merit, taking competency and character into consideration.
“It’s going to take a little bit, as we kind of work through things, and we’re going to pilot it for a little while,” said Giordano. “Probably sometime towards the early to mid-part of next year, we expect to have new evaluations.”
MCPON concluded the all-hands call by giving Ditzian a coin and encouraging all Sailors to continue to ask questions.
“Let leadership know what is on your mind,” Giordano said.
Giordano ate lunch with Sailors in the NATTC galley and toured the NASP child development center and the Radford Fitness Center.
While at NATTC, Giordano watched demonstrations of the Multi-Purpose Reconfigurable Training Systems (MRTS) 3D Mobile Electric Power Plant (MEPP) simulator in the Aviation Support Technician (AS) laboratory. The simulator is a virtual training system designed to provide initial accession aviation maintenance personnel virtual theory of operations and maintenance task familiarization.
He also toured the Aviation Rescue Swimmer School and Water Survival School.
At NETPDC, MCPON was briefed on Voluntary Education (VOLED) and the Advancement Exam Readiness Reviews (AERR).
"The Navy Advancement Center team has a huge task as they process 280,000 exam answer sheets and develop 500 exams for 83 ratings each year," said Giordano. “The entire process, from the construction and development of bibliographies to scoring the exams, is an enormous team effort."
Giordano concluded his visit at NASP Corry Station. He discussed cryptologic technicians (technical) training in the new AN/SLQ-32 (V) 6 electronic warfare (EW) system classroom, observed information systems technician students in the Digital Tutor course, and spoke with new accession students in the life skills class at Information Warfare Training Command Corry Station.
“We really appreciated MCPON coming to see our training firsthand,” said CIWT’s Command Master Chief Mike Bates. “Everything in the Navy starts with training, and with all the ongoing initiatives with Ready, Relevant Learning and Sailor 2025, having MCPON get a frontline assessment of what we’re doing here in Pensacola was a great opportunity.”
While at Corry Station, Giordano continued to speak to leaders and Sailors encouraging them to think about what they have accomplished in their careers each day as they put their uniforms together with the devices they worked hard to earn. He stated the goal is to continually strive “to be better than what we were.”
"MCPON reinforced his expectation for the Chiefs Mess to keep taking a leadership role and fulfilling the critical responsibility they have in molding the future of the Navy," said Bates. “He encouraged our young Sailors to take pride in their service, considering so few Americans are even eligible to serve today.”
Force Master Chief Karim Cole summed up MCPON's visit by saying, "It is always good to get a perspective on leadership and where the Navy is today and where we are going."
For more news from Naval Education and Training Command, visit www.navy.mil/local/cnet/.
| Date Taken: | 05.09.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 05.10.2017 13:22 |
| Story ID: | 233321 |
| Location: | PENSACOLA, FL, US |
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