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Only 1 out of 4 Sailors Understand Get Real Get Better After Two Years, Leaders Say
U.S. Naval Institute ^ | AUGUST 27, 2024 | GIDGET FUENTES

Posted on 09/03/2024 1:08:31 PM PDT by Retain Mike

NAVAL BASE SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Approximately 25 percent of sailors in the surface fleet have bought into the “Get Real Get Better” principles two years after the Navy issued its push to improve culture in the service, according to surface fleet leaders.

The rest know little about it, according to a survey of about 1,000 sailors that a San Diego-based command conducted among ship crews on the waterfront to gauge what they knew about the Navy’s initiative.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do to really drive this down to the deck plate and have it be truly a part of who we are as a culture,” Rear Adm. Randall Peck, the commander of Expeditionary Strike Group 3, told an audience earlier this month at the Surface Navy Association’s 2024 Waterfront Symposium.

“About 25 percent understand what ‘Get Real Get Better’ as a cultural initiative is and have bought into it. And sadly, there’s a whole lot of other people… [who said] I’ve heard of it, but I’m not a believer,’” Peck said.

Back in January 2022, then-Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday issued the call to bolster the Navy’s readiness and warfighting capability by creating and embracing a culture that empowers its leaders and sailors to self-assess and work through performance issues. His successor, Adm. Lisa Franchetti, “has doubled down on it because culture is the most important thing to us as a Navy,” Peck said.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: getrealgetbetter; getwokegobroke; grgb; homosexualagenda; navy; sailors
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To: Retain Mike

Agree

LGBTQ+ and transgenderism, and from the Cultural Marxism of White Privilege and Critical Race Theory......

It didn’t come about by accident it’s the work of the enemy within.

It’s everything the democrat party stands for.


21 posted on 09/03/2024 1:46:48 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: The_Media_never_lie

“”because culture is the most important thing to us as a Navy,” Peck said.””

If that’s really the way he feels, he’s in the wrong country!!

Expeditionary - they’ll take the Marines to anywhere they need to go to put out fires in the world...let’s see how the Marines take to that attitude!!!!!


22 posted on 09/03/2024 1:49:11 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: PGR88

Looks like the corporate jargon BS training slides I was forced to sit through at my previous job

https://grgb.navy.mil/GRGB-Overview/GRGB-Quick-Reference/


Yeah, I recognize it too. This stuff has been coming out of MBA programs since forever: Continuous Improvement, DMAIC, Plan Do Check Act, Total Quality Management, Six Sigma, etc.

This looks like more of the same, just dumbed down a bit.


23 posted on 09/03/2024 1:53:15 PM PDT by Gideon7
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To: Retain Mike

“by creating and embracing a culture that empowers its leaders and sailors to self-assess and work through performance issues”

When the new culture is one to turn the military in to a LGBTQWTF support group don’t be surprised when sailors do that rather than focus on maintaining ships. If my ship is on fire as a DC tech now I would have to make sure I don’t misgender a fire hose before I actually put out a fire.


24 posted on 09/03/2024 1:53:29 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Lou L

“”A cute, catchy little jingle to make it sound like they’re doing something to fix a problem.””

That DOES seem to be the idea. I don’t know HOW the country ever got to this place..

I’m sure sailors and marines go on liberty to the same places in San Diego...imagine sailors trying to convince marines they have the wrong attitude!!!


25 posted on 09/03/2024 1:55:39 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Jumper

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I don’t know but come eat at our chow hall.


26 posted on 09/03/2024 1:57:24 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: Retain Mike; All

I remember when they tried to apply Demmings principals to quantify Navy performance....what a C>F> that was.... lots of training and lip service...absolutely NO IMPROVEMENT... some one needed to justify their existence.


27 posted on 09/03/2024 1:58:34 PM PDT by Still a Patriot
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To: Retain Mike

I’m sure admiral lisa will shape thngs up. /s Really?


28 posted on 09/03/2024 1:59:10 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (More important than why there was nobody protecting the AGR roof, how did Crooks know that?)
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To: Retain Mike

*** His successor, Adm. Lisa Franchetti, “has doubled down on it because culture is the most important thing to us as a Navy,” ***

Wokeness is going to get us all killed.


29 posted on 09/03/2024 1:59:16 PM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: wally_bert

That go slow to go fast was a huge messy mass of BS. One of the silliest things I ever heard. Some dolt brought it to one of the drill ships. It didn’t do any good. The best thing is, If you can’t get the job done you can’t stay. Next chopper or boat to the beach and home for you.


30 posted on 09/03/2024 2:02:11 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (More important than why there was nobody protecting the AGR roof, how did Crooks know that?)
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To: Retain Mike

You ALL are deserving of OUR THANKS so HUGE THANK YOU!!!


31 posted on 09/03/2024 2:02:47 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Retain Mike

I will be the last on both sides of my family to serve in the military: a grandfather in WWI, my father and stepfather in WWII, and I served from 76-84. I now have a 14 year old grandson, his stepfather (a former Marine) and I both agree to keep him away from the military’s clutches.


32 posted on 09/03/2024 2:02:59 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!s)
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To: DesertRhino

Yup. Back in the day these parasite consultants were thick as fleas, sucking blood from the fat bureaucracy. We called them “the beltway bandits.” By now it’s only gotten worse.


33 posted on 09/03/2024 2:09:09 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: Gideon7
The business consultant outfits show up with a schmoozer general partner to tell the boss how great he is and a trail of newly minted mba's. The kids are some mix of long legged girls or cute guys depending on the workforce mix. They go around and interview the work force about what they do and what they think needs to be done to make things better. After that the gang goes away to recommend some team building and some slogans and tells the boss he really has problems out in the labor force that need a lot more work. This in turns gens up more work for the consulting outfit and they become a fixture until someone either runs out of money or time for them. It is a friggin' racket and if you are in it you should be ashamed and disgusted you are a part of it.

If you are a boss or have been one that hires these charlatan's you should be fired because you don't have enough sense or energy to do your own damn job and lead your people!

34 posted on 09/03/2024 2:10:07 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (More important than why there was nobody protecting the AGR roof, how did Crooks know that?)
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To: Retain Mike
“Get Real Get Better” WTF?

How about "Become a disciplined fighting machine!"

35 posted on 09/03/2024 2:14:03 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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To: Retain Mike
His successor, Adm. Lisa Franchetti, “has doubled down on it because culture is the most important thing to us as a Navy,” Peck said.

************

When I was in the Navy I never heard the word 'culture'. Not once. All that mattered was competence and performance.

36 posted on 09/03/2024 2:15:48 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Olog-hai

I hereby nominate your comment for the Best Post of the Day!


37 posted on 09/03/2024 2:18:49 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Sirius Lee

“Get Real Get Better” WTF?

"Assess and Improve" rephrased to appeal to young people? It does sound silly.

38 posted on 09/03/2024 2:20:15 PM PDT by Gideon7
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To: Retain Mike
“has doubled down on it because culture is the most important thing to us as a Navy,”
39 posted on 09/03/2024 2:25:00 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: Retain Mike; SaveFerris; PROCON; SunkenCiv; rlmorel

No thanks.

As an aside, I was going to join the Navy but they didn’t have any positions for “land guy.”


40 posted on 09/03/2024 2:25:07 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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