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Article by John Lehman:

Is Naval Aviation Culture Dead?

4 posted on 09/18/2011 12:58:30 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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If it’s anything like the USAF, it’s not that it’s wrong to be disrespectful of other people. It about putting all or nearly all the focus on the wrong things. Based on my experience, it’s no longer about being the absolute best you can be about doing your job. It’s about all the other stuff, like not offending anyone, being active in areas outside your core job, and devoting yourself to physical fitness. Physical fitness, for example, is a good thing, but is it more important than flying airplanes? You can be terrible at your core job, literally wasting hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars from mistakes, and survive, maybe even get put in a staff job, but heaven help you if you fail to do the requisite number of situps or say something that offends someone.


19 posted on 09/18/2011 1:32:29 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (What's special about bad? Bad is easy. Anyone can do bad. I prefer good!)
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