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Navy to lay off 3,000 mid-career sailors
US News/MSNBC ^ | 11/23/11 | Lea Sutton, KNSD

Posted on 11/23/2011 1:29:22 PM PST by Nachum

SAN DIEGO -- Imagine joining the Navy ten years ago with a career in mind. Now, sailors with that career plan are getting pink slips as the military looks for places to save money.

Since June, 16,000 mid-career sailors have been waiting to find out if they will be forced out early.

Last week, the Navy began its layoffs when the first of two rounds of personnel cuts were announced.

Read the original story at nbcsandiego.com

"Nobody ever wants to pass this sort of bad news to somebody," said Captain Winton Smith, Naval Station San Diego's commanding officer. "It's a very difficult thing for any commanding officer to sit down with a hard charger and to tell them to prepare for the next chapter of their life.”

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.msnbc.msn.com ...


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KEYWORDS: lay; military; navy; off; sailors
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To: kearnyirish2

Actually they got a lot of takers. Navy had really strict promotion and HYT guidelines, the Army offered a second chance.


41 posted on 11/23/2011 3:12:02 PM PST by OldGoatCPO
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To: MrEdd

Well said.


42 posted on 11/23/2011 3:14:11 PM PST by Minus_The_Bear
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To: 04-Bravo
"But I didn’t personally meet any enlisted personnel who were effected, only company-grade officers (O-1 through O-3) with reserve commissions via ROTC or OCS."

USMA grads were also included in the RIF in the post RVN force draw down.

43 posted on 11/23/2011 3:14:17 PM PST by verity (The Obama Administration is a Criminal Enterprise.)
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To: 04-Bravo

That was me in 74. I had a choice of reverting to E-8 or retire after 27 yrs in navy. I retired.


44 posted on 11/23/2011 3:15:08 PM PST by spookie
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To: blueunicorn6
All fed employees are not GS. We get bashed a lot on FR. The Corps alone is cutting 13% of its civilian work force, and not over a ten year period. In my field there will be at least a 30% reduction in the civilian work force over the next two years. They are not being replaced by military members either. All Fed employees are not making 100K or more a year. Most around here are working for between $8 and $12 per hour. If you are in intel, IT or working inside the beltway, you are getting 90K plus a year. Intel requires a special clearance very few other civilians have, ITs are in demand because of cyber warfare, now inside the belt way is where you find your blotted civilian work force. I hold three degrees and have 30 years experience and I know for a fact that a union baggage handler at O'Hare makes more than I do. Hell, my wife is a Nurse and they make more than she does! DoD civilian employees will be hit and hit hard and it will impact the quality of life of our service members.
45 posted on 11/23/2011 3:25:33 PM PST by OldGoatCPO
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To: Nachum

I know Civilian DoD work is taking it in the face as well. I talked with some of my old cohorts that still work for a major DoD company based out of Maryland. From talking with them, they are cutting vacations and floating holidays. When I got laid off in 2008, you got 6 floaters which most people used as an additional week of vacation. Some managers didn’t like you taking the time as vacation and preferred you to spread the days.

On vacation itself, they are cutting on how much you can carry over but on the other hand, they are laying off so many where those wo are still working have a bigger load to deal with and will not be permitted to take time off unless it is a day here and day there.

Lastly, from talking to everyone still there, no one leaves early on Friday’s anymore. Also management expects you to be in all day now. Back when I worked there, the flex time schedule was a big thing they promoted and I was one of those who would be at work at 0530 and on Mon and Tue, I would be there until 1700 and then leave like at 1430 on Wed and Thu and put a few in on Fri and be gone by Noon.


46 posted on 11/23/2011 3:27:25 PM PST by CORedneck
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

Went to USMC Boot CAmp in 75, had three recruits giving the choice 4 years in the Corps or four in prison. We had one guy who just got out of prison, he could have his parole ended early if he went in the Corps. Last I heard he was doing well, the other guys were all sent back to the judges.


47 posted on 11/23/2011 3:32:21 PM PST by OldGoatCPO
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To: Nachum

But I bet the IRS still has 120,000 employees.

Have any GS’rs anywhere been laid-off?


48 posted on 11/23/2011 4:00:04 PM PST by VeniVidiVici ("Si, se gimme!")
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To: OldGoatCPO; SandyInSeattle

Are you all kidding? I went back on active duty in the summer of ‘84. There must have been 500-600 prior service people at Ft Dix heading to Europe alone.


49 posted on 11/23/2011 4:29:59 PM PST by Sarajevo (Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?)
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To: Tallguy

You can bet that won’t happen.


50 posted on 11/23/2011 4:30:58 PM PST by Sarajevo (Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?)
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To: SandyInSeattle

It also happened around 91.


51 posted on 11/23/2011 4:34:56 PM PST by Mr Rogers ("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
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To: OldGoatCPO

I’d think the people that saw the writing on the wall hopped on the chance, especially those with years already invested. I guess the layoffs are to deal with the rest.


52 posted on 11/23/2011 4:44:55 PM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: norton

I had to lay off an entire department one afternoon. Person by person. 18 in total.

I cried afterwards.


53 posted on 11/23/2011 4:53:17 PM PST by Vermont Lt (I just don't like anything about the President. And I don't think he's a nice guy.)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
You don’t make it to a mid level 10 year career if you are a poor performer.

I guess that all depends on the branch, skills and timing. I knew guys that I wouldn't trust to boil water getting $20,000 bonuses to reenlist. For a while there the Navy evaluation system was so screwed up that getting a 3.8 on a 4.0 scale meant you were a dirt bag. I don't know if they ever got it straightened out. I saw lots of guys who'd spent their careers in the shipyards earning bogus qualifications being promoted to E-7 without ever making a deployment on an operational ship.

54 posted on 11/23/2011 5:01:31 PM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: Nachum

Obama’s and the liberals change meant they want to change everything that Ronald Reagan ever accomplished for America. Trickle down economics turns into trickle up poverty. This is no different, Peace through Strength turns to War through Weakness.....

Like it or not that is exactly the change that America voted for in 08....


55 posted on 11/23/2011 5:03:39 PM PST by Typical_Whitey (Democrat socialist engineering of America is treason.)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Both, if he were not the first he wouldn’t do the second.


56 posted on 11/23/2011 5:25:41 PM PST by RipSawyer (This does not end well!)
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To: VeniVidiVici

The term for cutting GS’rs isn’t laid off, it’s RIF. Thousands of GS’rs were riffed as a result of BRAC’s during the 90’s and in 2005.


57 posted on 11/23/2011 5:30:58 PM PST by rwa265 (Christ my Cornerstone)
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To: 04-Bravo
One prior captain ... had a choice of either going to reserve status as a captain, or staying on active duty reclassified to E-5

In the late 50s - early sixties my dad was an Air Force NCO. He served with several former officers, including at least one former full Colonel. My dad said that back then, once you retired, you reverted to the highest rank you held before being RIF'd, so when he retired MSgt Whatshisname was became COL Whatshisname (RET).

58 posted on 11/23/2011 5:36:12 PM PST by Pilsner
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To: MrEdd
The military is there to protect the nation from violent harm.

What a quaint view? Are you serious? The military has been turned into everything that you listed plus some. It is now principally a social experiment for studying fornication of men/women, men/men, and women/women.
59 posted on 11/23/2011 5:48:32 PM PST by businessprofessor
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To: Tallguy
Did they lay-off a few excess captains or admirals?

Nope. More admirals per ship now than we had during WWII, and that was when we had a flag for units as small as a cruiser division.

60 posted on 11/23/2011 6:13:16 PM PST by GATOR NAVY ("The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -Dennis Prager)
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