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| navy swo career path: Navy Readiness United States. Government Accountability Office, Cary Russell, 2021 SWOs are U.S. Navy officers whose primary duties focus on the safe operation of surface ships at sea. In 2017, the Navy had two collisions at sea that resulted in the death of 17 sailors and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to Navy ships. Following the collisions, the Navy identified deficiencies in the SWO career path and staffing policies, and took action to improve these areas. Among other things, this report (1) assesses trends in separation rates of SWOs with those of similar U.S. Navy officer communities, and trends in SWO separation rates by gender; (2) describes how the career path of U.S. Navy SWOs compares to those of selected foreign navies and other U.S. Navy and U.S. maritime communities; and (3) assesses the extent to which the U.S. Navy has used or evaluated alternative career paths. GAO is making 7 recommendations to the Navy, including developing a plan to improve SWO retention; regularly evaluating its current approaches, including alternative career paths; and using these to improve SWO career options and proficiency. |
| navy swo career path: Watch Officer's Guide , 1992 This handbook addresses every aspect of a watchstander's duties at sea and in port. This revised edition offers new material on the rules of the road, weather, engineering, and more. |
| navy swo career path: Perspective , 1990 |
| navy swo career path: The Naval Officer's Career Planning Guidebook , 1990 |
| navy swo career path: Newly Commissioned Naval Officer's Guide Samantha Ann O'Neil, 2025-01-14 Fully revised, this third edition of Newly Commissioned Naval Officer’s Guide continues to be an essential resource for those making the pivotal transition from midshipmen and officer candidates to newly commissioned naval officers from all service communities. Chapters address the principles of basic leadership, naval policy, service etiquette, and personal and professional administration. With new insights from those who have recently made this transition, this book serves as a gateway to the many digital and print assets available to newly commissioned officers. It underscores continued preparation, repetition, action, leadership, accountability, and focus on the job at hand as lifelong career fundamentals. A brief history of the U.S. Navy is included, as well as sample communications and helpful hints, making this volume an important source of advice and information for young leaders who, by their service, make a difference in the U.S. Navy, the nation, and the world. |
| navy swo career path: Surface Warfare , 1986 |
| navy swo career path: Quarterly Supplement to the ... Annual Department of Defense Bibliography of Logistics Studies and Related Documents United States. Defense Logistics Studies Information Exchange, 1989 |
| navy swo career path: Against the Tide David R Oliver, 2014-11-15 Against the Tide is a leadership book that illustrates how Adm. Hyman Rickover made a unique impact on American and Navy culture. Dave Oliver is the first former nuclear submarine commander who sailed for the venerable admiral to write about Rickover’s management techniques. Oliver draws upon a wealth of untold stories to show how one man changed American and Navy culture while altering the course of history. The driving force behind America’s nuclear submarine navy, Rickover revolutionized naval warfare while concurrently proving to be a wellspring of innovation that drove American technology in the latter half of the twentieth-century. As a testament to his success, Rickover’s single-minded focus on safety protected both American citizens and sailors from nuclear contamination, a record that is in stark contrast to the dozens of nuclear reactor accidents suffered by the Russians. While Rickover has been the subject of a number of biographies, little has been written about his unique management practices that changed the culture of a two-hundred-year-old institution and affected the outcome of the Cold War. Rickover’s achievements have been obscured because they were largely conducted in secret and because he possessed a demanding and abrasive personality that alienated many potential supporters. Nevertheless he was an extraordinary manager with significant lessons for all those in decision-making positions. The author had the good fortune to know and to serve under Rickover during much of his thirty-year career in the Navy and is singularly qualified to demonstrate the management and leadership principles behind Rickover’s success. |
| navy swo career path: Navy Study Group's Report on Progress of Women in the Navy , 1987 |
| navy swo career path: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, 1989 |
| navy swo career path: Unrestricted Line Officer Career Planning Guidebook , 1986 |
| navy swo career path: Thunder Below! Eugene B. Fluckey, 2013-04-01 The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS Barb, who frequently found themselves somewhere between enemy fire and Davy Jones's locker. Under the leadership of her fearless skipper, Captain Gene Fluckey, the Barb sank the greatest tonnage of any American sub in World War II. At the same time, the Barb did far more than merely sink ships-she changed forever the way submarines stalk and kill their prey. This is a gripping adventure chock-full of you-are-there moments. Fluckey has drawn on logs, reports, letters, interviews, and a recently discovered illegal diary kept by one of his torpedomen. And in a fascinating twist, he uses archival documents from the Japanese Navy to give its version of events. The unique story of the Barb begins with its men, who had the confidence to become unbeatable. Each team helped develop innovative ideas, new tactics, and new strategies. All strove for personal excellence, and success became contagious. Instead of lying in wait under the waves, the USS Barb pursued enemy ships on the surface, attacking in the swift and precise style of torpedo boats. She was the first sub to use rocket missiles and to creep up on enemy convoys at night, joining the flank escort line from astern, darting in and out as she sank ships up the column. Surface-cruising, diving only to escape, Luckey Fluckey relentlessly patrolled the Pacific, driving his boat and crew to their limits. There can be no greater contrast to modern warfare's long-distance, videogame style of battle than the exploits of the captain and crew of the USS Barb, where they sub, out of ammunition, actually rammed an enemy ship until it sank. Thunder Below! is a first-rate, true-life, inspirational story of the courage and heroism of ordinary men under fire. A Main Selection of the Military Book Club. Winner of the Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature given by the Naval Order of the United States, New York Commandery. |
| navy swo career path: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2006 United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, 2006 |
| navy swo career path: Command at Sea Harley Francis Cope, 1951 |
| navy swo career path: An Analysis of Sabbatical Leaves for Navy Surface Warfare Officers Roland J. Yardley, 2004 Naval Surface Warfare Officers (SWOs) spend long periods at sea, where they cannot attend to their families or to personal business. This can reduce morale and negatively affect retention. The Navy has been exploring programs that would better accommodate the needs of SWOs through increased use of sabbatical leaves. These programs include allowing former SWOs to return to service, offering leaves of absence, or allowing extended leave between duty stations. This briefing assess the problem, examines the proposed solutions, and offers concluding observations. This research focused on the potential return on investment (ROI) for each program, rather than whether it would directly improve retention. Although all three programs can provide quantifiable benefits and improve morale, both returns to service and leaves of absence offer positive ROIs, although the latter would cost more. The benefits of the personal leave option, on the other hand, do not outweigh its costs. Note that, to capture the full benefits of these programs, retaining more SWOs longer requires a corresponding decrease in SWO accessions. |
| navy swo career path: Redefining Information Warfare Boundaries for an Army in a Wireless World Isaac Porche, Christopher Paul, Michael York, Chad C. Serena, Jerry M. Sollinger, 2013 In the U.S. Army as elsewhere, transmission of digitized packets on Internet-protocol and space-based networks is rapidly supplanting the use of old technology (e.g., dedicated analog channels) when it comes to information sharing and media broadcasting. As the Army moves forward with these changes, it will be important to identify the implications and potential boundaries of cyberspace operations. An examination of network operations, information operations, and the more focused areas of electronic warfare, signals intelligence, electromagnetic spectrum operations, public affairs, and psychological operations in the U.S. military found significant overlap that could inform the development of future Army doctrine in these areas. In clarifying the prevailing boundaries between these areas of interest, it is possible to predict the progression of these boundaries in the near future. The investigation also entailed developing new definitions that better capture this overlap for such concepts as information warfare. This is important because the Army is now studying ways to apply its cyber power and is reconsidering doctrinally defined areas that are integral to operations in cyberspace. It will also be critical for the Army to approach information operations with a plan to organize and, if possible, consolidate its operations in two realms: the psychological, which is focused on message content and people, and the technological, which is focused on content delivery and machines.--Page 4 of cover. |
| navy swo career path: Voices of Historical and Contemporary Black American Pioneers Vernon L. Farmer, Evelyn Shepherd-Wynn, 2012-05-15 The stories of black American professionals, both historic and contemporary, reveal the hardships and triumphs they faced in overcoming racism to succeed in their chosen fields. This extraordinary four-volume work is the first of its kind, a comprehensive exploration of the obstacles black men and women, both historic and contemporary, have faced and overcome to succeed in professional positions. Voices of Historical and Contemporary Black American Pioneers includes the life and career histories of black American pioneers, past and present, who have achieved extraordinary success in fields as varied as aviation and astronautics, education, social sciences, the humanities, the fine and performing arts, law and government, and medicine and science. The set covers well-known figures, but is also an invaluable source of information on lesser-known individuals whose accomplishments are no less admirable. Arranged by career category, each section of the work begins with a biographical narrative of early black pioneers in the field, followed by original interviews conducted by the editors or autobiographical narratives written by the subjects. In all, more than 150 scholars and professionals share inspiring insights into how they persevered to overcome racism and succeed in an often-hostile world. |
| navy swo career path: HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED FIRST CONGRESS ON S. 1085 , 1989 |
| navy swo career path: Crossed Currents Mary-Beth Hall, 2014-09-01 This new, revised edition of the path-breaking first history of the female members of the U.S. Navy has been updated to include the recent integration of Navy women into the crews of combaant shops and tactical aviation squadrons, and the contributions of Navy women to the space program. It is a comprehensive chronicle of inspirational service spanning nearly the entire century. |
| navy swo career path: Air Warriors Douglas Waller, 2013-07-16 Veteran journalist and author of The Commandos Douglas Waller chronicles his rare and intimate experience with the training program for Navy pilots in this “engrossing saga that will likely become an unofficial recruiting tool for naval aviation” (Publishers Weekly). Waller, who was granted permission to participate in the pilots’ grueling training regime, has written an absorbing behind-the-scenes account of the physical and psychological trials endured by the most specialized group of pilots in military history. From his bird’s-eye view in the passenger’s seat, Waller follows pilot trainees through two years of intense preparation. He offers vivid illustrations from the fray: hair-raising aerial dogfights; stomach-swallowing dive-bombing runs; high-speed tactical maneuvers grazing the desert floor; and numerous nerve-twisting aircraft carrier takeoffs and landings. In addition to his own experiences and those of the group of trainees he joins, his research is based on interviews with hundreds of other students and their instructors. Hurtling through the air at death-defying speeds, these pilots-in-training struggle to maintain their composure while withstanding conditions that are designed to challenge them to the very limits of human endurance. Waller’s deftly drawn portraits of the men and women he encounters in this singular culture of elite pilots are as satisfying as his adventure narrative. The pilots, whose grit, determination, and mental agility operate on an elevated threshold, come into sharp focus behind Waller’s keen lens: their aspirations, awe inspiring. Air Warriors combines an examination of the modern Navy, recovering from past sex scandals, with a portrayal of a privileged cadre of men and women whose ambition and commitment coexist within a tightly knit group. Waller is able to capture images of these pilots training, living, and fighting with an acuity and intelligence that are often absent from Hollywood and television treatments of this diverse and fascinating subculture. Air Warriors takes us inside the cockpit and behind closed doors for the real story of the making of a Navy pilot. |
| navy swo career path: Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute United States Naval Institute, 2016 |
| navy swo career path: Raising the Flag Kimberly Jackson, Katherine L. Kidder, Sean Mann, Natasha Lander, William H. Waggy (II), S. Rebecca Zimmerman, 2020-09-15 This report describes the professional experiences and other characteristics general and flag officers in the military services tend to share due to each service's approach to personnel management, and potential implications of those approaches. |
| navy swo career path: Officer Career Development John R Bruni (Jr), Gerry L. Wilcove, NAVY PERSONNEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER SAN DIEGO CA., Navy Personnel Research and Development Center (U.S.), United States. Office of Naval Technology, 1988 This report is the ninth in a series of officer career development. In 1983, the Navy instituted a major career path change in the Surface Warfare Officer community. The purpose of this change was to increase the technical knowledge and skills of department heads, and thus, hopefully, operational readiness. The survey research was designed to assess the preliminary acceptance among officer of this career change. Questionnaires were completed by 2,583 surface officers as part of an ongoing research project studying the impact of career management policies on officer career decisions and actions. It was found that officers were generally favorably disposed toward the new policy. There was no preliminary indication that the adjustment in the career path would have any impact one way or the other on an individual's desire to make the Navy a career or to extend beyond 20 years. Recommendations were made for further research and for developing reliable, objective measures of departmental and fleet readiness. (SDW). |
| navy swo career path: Department of Defense Appropriations for ... United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, 1989 |
| navy swo career path: It's Your Ship D. Michael Abrashoff, 2014-07-02 The former commander of the U.S.S. Benfold describes the management principles that he used to command one of the U.S. Navy's most modern warships and explains how these principles can be used in a business environment. |
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| navy swo career path: Challenging Time in DOPMA Peter Schirmer, 2006 Many of the laws and policies that govern officer career management (often collectively referred to as DOPMA, after the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act of 1980) have been in place for decades. DOPMA has served the needs of the services reasonably well, but the current system may not meet the requirements of the future operating environment. One criticism of DOPMA is that it does not allow for much variety in officers' career paths because it is time-driven. Alternatively, officers' competencies are now emerging as the basis for career management. In this monograph, the authors demonstrate how a competency-based officer personnel management system could provide more flexibility in preparing military officers for the wide range of roles and missions of the U.S. military in the 21st century. This analysis focuses on practices governing promotions for military officers and closely related assignment and retirement policies.--Rand web site |
| navy swo career path: From Yeomanettes to Fighter Jets Randy Carol Goguen, 2024-03-06 From Yeomanettes to Fighter Jets addresses a major element of twenty-first century sea power—the integration of women into all military units of the U.S. Navy. Randy Goguen delineates the cultural, economic, and political conditions as well as the technological changes that shaped this movement over the course of a century. Starting with the establishment of the Yeomen (F) in World War I and continuing through today to address the current arguments over the registration of women for Selective Service and the reform of the military justice system, Goguen describes how changes in civilian society affected the U. S. Navy and the role of Navy women. She highlights the contributions of key women and men in the military and civilian spheres who were willing to challenge convention and prejudice to advance the integration of women and make the U.S. Navy a stronger institution. Today women in the U.S. Navy have proven themselves essential to the mission success of the service. They are forward deployed around the world, sharing the same risks as their male counterparts. Some have commanded logistics and combatant ships, including aircraft carriers. They fly and maintain combat and patrol aircraft and serve as crew members on ships and submarines. Some hold major commands ashore and have risen to the highest echelons of navy leadership. Integrating women into the U.S. Navy has been a long and often contentious process, as women strived to overcome resistance imposed by prevailing cultural and institutional norms and patriarchal prejudices. Goguen, a retired naval reserve officer who holds a PhD in military history from Temple University, has written a comprehensive and up-to-date history of women’s integration into the Navy. She argues that throughout the process, the decisive force driving progress was exigency. That exigency took various forms: two world wars, communist expansionism in the Cold War, the ending of the draft and the establishment of the All-Volunteer Force, as well as the political pressures posed by social change, especially the mid twentieth-century feminist and contemporary “Me Too” movements. Despite a deeply ingrained institutional resistance cultivated within an insular, often misogynist, sea-going subculture, today’s U.S. Navy could not meet its mission requirements without women. Goguen asserts, “Exigency is the mother of integration.” |
| navy swo career path: Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act, for Fiscal Year 1990--H.R. 2461 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Military Personnel and Compensation Subcommittee, 1989 |
| navy swo career path: Department of Defense Appropriations for 1990: Military manpower United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense, 1989 |
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| navy swo career path: Hearing on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Personnel, 2006 |
| navy swo career path: Department of Defense Appropriations for 1990 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense, 1989 |
| navy swo career path: Fire Controlman First Class Mitchell Shelton, 1987 |
| navy swo career path: Administration & Management , 1986 |
| navy swo career path: Proceedings - United States Naval Institute United States Naval Institute, 1992-12 |
| navy swo career path: Jet Girl Caroline Johnson, Hof Williams, 2019-11-05 A fresh, unique insider’s view of what it’s like to be a woman aviator in today’s US Navy—from pedicures to parachutes, friendship to firefights. Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviation candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into fashion or filmmaking, and yet she went on to become an F/A-18 Super Hornet Weapons System Officer. She was one of the first women to fly a combat mission over Iraq since 2011, and one of the first women to drop bombs on ISIS. Jet Girl tells the remarkable story of the women fighting at the forefront in a military system that allows them to reach the highest peaks, and yet is in many respects still a fraternity. Johnson offers an insider’s view on the fascinating, thrilling, dangerous and, at times, glamorous world of being a naval aviator. This is a coming-of age story about a young college-aged woman who draws strength from a tight knit group of friends, called the Jet Girls, and struggles with all the ordinary problems of life: love, work, catty housewives, father figures, make-up, wardrobe, not to mention being put into harm’s way daily with terrorist groups such as ISIS and world powers such as Russia and Iran. Some of the most memorable parts of the book are about real life in training, in the air and in combat—how do you deal with having to pee in a cockpit the size of a bumper car going 600 miles an hour? Not just a memoir, this book also aims to change the conversation and to inspire and attract the next generation of men and women who are tempted to explore a life of adventure and service. |
| navy swo career path: Anchors Aweigh A Naval Academy Alphabet Nancy Prothro Arbuthnot, 2024-03-14 A is for anchor as in “Anchors aweigh!” The photographs, catchy rhymes, and informative notes in Anchors Aweigh offer a lively introduction to the history, architecture, culture and traditions of the United States Naval Academy. Welcome aboard as we set sail from the “Boat School,” where young women and men are trained to serve as officers in the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. |
| navy swo career path: On Desperate Ground Hampton Sides, 2019-10-29 From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War. Superb ... A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story—the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir—has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceedingly well, with fresh research, gritty scenes and cinematic sweep. —The Washington Post On October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of UN troops in Korea, convinced President Harry Truman that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgiving. The Chinese, he said with near certainty, would not intervene in the war. As he was speaking, 300,000 Red Chinese soldiers began secretly crossing the Manchurian border. Led by some 20,000 men of the First Marine Division, the Americans moved deep into the snowy mountains of North Korea, toward the trap Mao had set for the vainglorious MacArthur along the frozen shores of the Chosin Reservoir. What followed was one of the most heroic--and harrowing--operations in American military history, and one of the classic battles of all time. Faced with probable annihilation, and temperatures plunging to 20 degrees below zero, the surrounded, and hugely outnumbered, Marines fought through the enemy forces with ferocity, ingenuity, and nearly unimaginable courage as they marched their way to the sea. Hampton Sides' superb account of this epic clash relies on years of archival research, unpublished letters, declassified documents, and interviews with scores of Marines and Koreans who survived the siege. While expertly detailing the follies of the American leaders, On Desperate Ground is an immediate, grunt's-eye view of history, enthralling in its narrative pace and powerful in its portrayal of what ordinary men are capable of in the most extreme circumstances. Hampton Sides has been hailed by critics as one of the best nonfiction writers of his generation. As the Miami Herald wrote, Sides has a novelist's eye for the propulsive elements that lend momentum and dramatic pace to the best nonfiction narratives. |
| navy swo career path: A Failure of Initiative United States. Congress. House. Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina, 2006 |
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