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by stephen_g
1522 days ago
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My experience of Navy personnel from ship visits as a contractor (commissioning and sometimes fixing SATCOM equipment for Australian Navy, US Special Operations ships etc.) has been that quite a lot of the higher ups seem to be pretty good. Maybe they try to weed out the jerks and psychopaths before they get up that high, or perhaps there are natural processes that do it? I have heard that the other services (especially Army) are a lot worse, so perhaps it's all to do with the realities of all these people having to be stuck together for months on ships or subs that means it's much more important to have good leaders at sea? I had a time when I'd flown out to fix our satellite terminal, it was literally the only thing holding up this patrol boat from deploying, and the CO (commanding officer) came and asked how I was doing and then went and got me a Coke from the galley himself! There was absolutely no annoyance and anger at me because our company's equipment was holding it up, just "what can we all do to get this working as quick as possible". Another time we had to replace a large part of a gimbal on a frigate, with myself and a tech from our company and a couple of low-ranked seamen, and the top WEEO (Weapons Electrical Engineering Officer) happily jumped in and helped us drag a big crate up the side of the ship. Of course it's different being a contractor coming in than being one of the lower ranked enlisted people, but on all the ships I've been on it always seemed to be pretty good relationally. Of course, I'd usually be on just before deployment so a few weeks or months later things may not have been so rosy either! |
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