I recently attended a facilitators course on Navy Pride & Professionalism (NP&P). NP&P has replaced the Navy’s Rights & Responsibilities (NR&R) program, which anyone who has been on a ship will remember as a nearly week long waste of time spent going over PowerPoints about drinking responsibly, sexual harassment, etc. On the first day of class the first thing the instructor pulls up is the lesson guide. NP&P covers everything that is being a Sailor. The Sailor’s Creed, saluting, uniform regs…all the good shit. Needless to say, I was amused by the sheer irony of what the first page said. Can you spot it?
Hey Jim – I caught it. The friggin’ training manual is put out buy some Sand Crab contractor! President Eisenhower warned about the danger of the “Military-Industrial” partnerships, so Ike is probably rolling over in his grave right now.
Not only that but that nice “Trainee” title there kinda puts a new job position on us. So when did we become “trainee’s” and more importantly when do we stop being “Trainee’s” if in fact ever. NOOOO I’ll have to wear that crappy yellow In training badge forever!!!!!
*grumpy old man voice* Back in my day we didn’t have no stinkin Powerpoint and we liked it!
Well in my day now we do have powerpoints and I’m pretty sure most of us would sell our souls to never have to sit through one again
Well I’m sure it’ll become a mandatory NKO course soon and the course we be so in-depth and complicated and not available for NKO Afloat that it’ll be impossible to do on a ship underway due to the bandwidth but it’ll still be mandatory to complete “before we reach (insert liberty port) or you won’t have liberty until it’s done”
Rather have a power point than a NKO course….
Was it the “Trainee” part or the “Prepared by General Dynamics Information Technology” part?
It was the “obvious” part…fyi