Knowing the personalities involved it’s hard to accept that statement at face value-but anyway…….

The problem is that the communication is not coming downward. In particular Admiral Harvey, your two digit P-codes were in general uncommunicative with their customers about the outcomes of these discussions. The issue is not that you made decisions-it is a lack of transparency and a willingness to explain them once made.

I was in the Navy long enough to have seen the change-we’ve come a long way and in the wrong direction from the days when Dick Dunleavy would offer “free shots at a three star” to the situation that existed last year when the head aviation detailer would not communicate with his O-6 constituents,even when they were close to PRD or had legitimate questions. A free flowing discussion does no good if the results are not communicated downward.

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In much the same way, blogs have presented to me different ways of looking at things. I’ve learned from them and truthfully, was entertained by them for the thought provoking concepts I had to digest. I think what Salamander is trying to say is that blogs are a good way to hear what the people who have nothing to lose, no boss to write you a deadly OER, no axe to grind for your program manager, and thus, you get many truths to sort through. In the midst of all those truths, some good, some fair, some suspect, you will find gems. In closing, it would do you no harm to listen in every now and then. Who knows, you might find a gem. When you find one, you’ll know for certain that no one was trying to grease his boss when it landed in your lap. It will be freely given to you from the rough and tumble world of blogs.

Second stage: It is never pleasant for any man’s best work to be left unnoticed by superiors, and it was an unpleasantness that Sims suffered extremely ill. In his later reports, beside the accumulating data he used to clinch his argument, he changed his tone. He used deliberately shocking language because, as he said, “They were furious at my first papers and stowed them away. I therefore made up my mind I would give these later papers such a form that they would be dangerous documents to leave neglected in the files.” To another friend he added, “I want scalps or nothing and if I can’t have ‘em I won’t play.”