Archive for February 5th, 2007

A Little “Light” Reading

February 5th, 2007 by xformed

Two years ago, I spent a few days being a serial poster. I had originally done it at the “Junior Blog,” but found the time tonight to bring it all over into the database, update the links and now I’ll invite your attention to the series, “The Value of the Military Skill Set.”

If anyone has any inputs, sent them in. I did it as a sort of “cultural translator” from how “we” so often look at things and don’t seem able to sometimes make a good connection with those who haven’t served….

Here’s the index for your reading enjoyment:

Part I: Initiative, marketing, sales, project planning and program management skills
Part II: Auditing Skills
Part III: Operations 24/7/365
Part IV: “Point Papers”
Part V: Collateral Duties
Part VI: The “Git ‘er done!” Factor
Part VII: “Total Care”
Part VIII: Communications in the Workplace
Part IX: “Give a smart person with potential a chance”
Part X: Process Engineering, Continuous Improvement, Total Quality Management, Total Quality Leadership, or what ever you call it. The bottom line title: Making “it” better
Part XI: The Military’s Supply System
Part XII: “Red Blood or Red Ink”
Part XIII: Constructive Plagiarism

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Oct 2, 1992: (Very) Shortly After Midnight – USS SARATOGA – Part IV

February 5th, 2007 by xformed

Last post on the topic…

The roots of the Combat System Training Teams (CSTT) grew from the Engineering Casualty Control and Damage Control Training Teams (ECCTT/DCTT), where were put in place in the mid-late 70s in response to the poor maintenance condition of the ships in the later part and post- Vietnam War era. There, the standing up of the Propulsion Examination Boards (PEBs) in the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets, required a ship have an organic training capability. As best I can figure, this came from a philosphy that while an individual crew/watch team might perform well today, was there a reasonable expectation it would do so tomorrow, a month or a year from now. I can further speculate, but I never read anything that would connect this next set of dots, that the PEB and the inspections they performed, the Light Off Exam (LOE) and the Operational Propulsion Plant Exam (OPPE) had been “lifted” from the Nuclear Navy’s rigorous system of ensuring the safety of those operations.

The processes of the CSTT modeled the ECCTT/DCTT ones, which, as I discussed some time back, was a result of professional plagiarism, in a good way. One of the significant parts of the training scenarios is to plan for possible safety problems and then make sure the training team members are knowledgeable about the systems and able to step in and stop the drill if such a problem arises. Sometimes, separate safety observers were stationed to specifically watch for problems, while the main training team members are running the drills, or observing the crew’s operations.

During the pre-brief for the drills, the CSTT procedures required detailed discussions of the simulations and variations for real operations, and the safety concerns. Before the drills ran, the CSTT was to walk through the spaces and check to general safety status of the area, as well as to check particular equipment settings. The final reports to the CSTT team leader required “all safety checks completed” before the training scenario would commence.

This set of procedures may have rendered this thread of posting completely moot, had there been a CSTT established, qualified and trained aboard SARATOGA that night….

to be continued…

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“Nintendo, Wii Have a Problem!”

February 5th, 2007 by xformed

Yes, the game console craze is in “full swing” so to speak.

Need a little “dark” gaming humor to make you smile (and warn you of the dangers of Wii)?

Broken Teapot
One excerpt of note, a poem about the result of loosing a controller into the air, and where it fell, well, these people know where:

So, its Christmas eve. I’m happy, the family is happy. One wii sports homerun later. We have a broken decorative teapot. Blame the over zealous father. I wrote this poem to commemorate the occasion.

I’m a little teapot, short and stout.
somewhere is my handle, over there is my spout.
When I get all wii’d up, hear me shout.
“OH GOD, IT HURTS, WHERE IS MY HANDLE,
SOMEBODY HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!”

-Bradford

Check out the damaged pets, people, TVs and computers, as well as other breakable objects in the vicinity of gamers gone wild…

Trackbacked at:
Third World County

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