LineinTheSand said:So everyone is clear, I agree with looking at Reef Points before attending USNA.
no one else will know unless you inform them.
'No one else will know'. Hardly the caveat necessary when giving upstanding forthright proper advice.
Additionally, this has got to be one of the scariest bits of advice I have ever encountered on this forum. It is okay to do anything so long as ‘no one else will know? Look at your roommates take home test when he is at dinner? No one will know. Take short cuts on the ship’s preventive maintenance system because ‘no one else will know’? Maybe you, LineInTheSand should take a good long hard look in the mirror before you face your OS’s at your next quarters. With this mindset, you certainly have no business advisng future Naval Academy midshipmen.
Perhaps you are unaware that there is an entire other world out there, larger than your 10 knot USS Constitution mindset, where your greatest challenge apparently is getting underway from a stationary pier, spending a few days independent steaming, and then returning to that self same pier. Tactical Action Officers are intimately familiar with the capabilities of all the assets of not only all friendly forces but all enemy ones as well. They then fight the battle group in a very pressure cooker atmosphere. Or the ordnance drop late at night to protect fellow Marines pinned down by superior forces, weather causing a very low level pull out, FODing an engine, returning to the boat, a boat below weather minimums, single engine, adrenaline aflow, attempting to pour through multiple checklists to affect the necessary electrical and hydraulic crossovers, attempting to refuel in a lightening storm with faulty refueling platform, fuel low lights continually aglow. Perhaps, LITS, you are out of your element here attempting to give advice to USNA candidates. Stick with the Coast Guard. It is more your speed. Everything done at USNA is done for a reason. Memorizing Reef Points in advance is not one of those reasons.
Luigi59 said:Are you speaking officially as a USNA representative, stating USNA official policy?
Perhaps you should label your posts as "your opinion" since they carry no official weight from the USNA?
As a BGO, I must be continually aware that I am always a USNA representative and that everything I state has to be factual as in the case here where I am expressing the policy of the Academy.
As LITS has done in this very thread, expressing his ill-found opinions, he uses ‘maybe’ and ‘perhaps’. This has also been my policy in the past when I have been expressing my own personal opinions.
There is a very long thread at CC if you wish to review it....................... There are many others than have added opinions contrary to yours and they are just as relevant.
Please do read it. With the exception of one or two who were trying to rationalize their own improper actions, all the remainder in the know worthy of an opinion, agreed that it should not be done.
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