I know current Mids are trying to enjoy their last week of leave and coming back to a COVID USNA is not ideal. Hang in there. I know the dark ages are upon you as you come back, but take care of each other. I hope as spring comes about we can start to see USNA return to a more a normal day to day. Check in with one another, be the positive in a group when everyone else is being negative, and on those bad days... go talk to your friends and if needed, seek professional help.
Ignore the sensational headline and even the source (Task & Purpose has its moments of being a strange news source in some cases), but regardless of all that it doesn't change the fact that some Sailors were wrapping up a 10 month deployment and on their way home for 4 days... and got turned back around. A turn around is not something unheard of. Almost everyone of my friends has faced an extension or turn around during their time in service. There are young officers, some that even current Mids that were in their same companies, on that ship that had to turn to their divisions and tell them, we aren't going home guys. Just something to think about and how would you handle that situation, how do you keep morale up, how to handle struggling Sailors with this, etc. How would you handle it? Talk to your officers around the yard and ask if this has happened to them, how they handled it, how did they tell their Sailors, what they would of done different, what they learned. You have so many resources as your fingertips, use them to make yourself better for the day that you have to be that officer.
For the Mids, good luck with second semester. For those that are Firsties, I wish you get the Commissioning Week you have earned.
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Ignore the sensational headline and even the source (Task & Purpose has its moments of being a strange news source in some cases), but regardless of all that it doesn't change the fact that some Sailors were wrapping up a 10 month deployment and on their way home for 4 days... and got turned back around. A turn around is not something unheard of. Almost everyone of my friends has faced an extension or turn around during their time in service. There are young officers, some that even current Mids that were in their same companies, on that ship that had to turn to their divisions and tell them, we aren't going home guys. Just something to think about and how would you handle that situation, how do you keep morale up, how to handle struggling Sailors with this, etc. How would you handle it? Talk to your officers around the yard and ask if this has happened to them, how they handled it, how did they tell their Sailors, what they would of done different, what they learned. You have so many resources as your fingertips, use them to make yourself better for the day that you have to be that officer.
For the Mids, good luck with second semester. For those that are Firsties, I wish you get the Commissioning Week you have earned.
USS Nimitz ordered to turn the f— around and stay in the Middle East amid Iran threats
The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz will remain in the Middle East due to unspecified threats from Iran against President Trump.
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