CO Meeting Today

Today I go in for my mentoring session with the new CO, Captain O'Conner. She wants me to talk to her like I would talk to the Captain on a ship I'm going to as the Chief Engineer. I came up with this outline to talk around:

My Motto is: "Answer the Ordered Bell"
To accomplish this, I have three priorities. They are:
1) Readiness- 100% readiness both material and personnel
2) Support- Be on top of the game and provide as much support as possible to all other departments because I recognize that engineering is not the most important department on the ship--no department is. We are all a team and we must help each other out. There will be no "us vs them" mentality in Engineering.
3) People- Sailors are our #1 asset and we must treat them as such. Sailorize the juniors and mentor all.

For the troops I came up with this:

As Chief Engineer, I have 3 top goals or priorities:
1) Readiness, both training and material
2) Support- All departments, we're one ship, one team
3) Sailorization and Mentoring- Sailors are our #1 asset

My motto is "Answer the ordered bell" and these three priorities will help us do that.

Readiness:
Training- not rote training but effective training both schoolhouse and inhouse. Train our sailors right, train them well and train them often.
Material- I understand that things break, but we must be flexible and adaptive enough to corrects problems as quickly as we can and fulfill our mission--not only the ship's mission as a warship, but our mission of support for our fellow departments. We should always be striving for the Red 'E' which leads into the next priority

Support:
Engineering is not the most important department on the ship.
Neither is Ops
Neither is CS
Neither is Supply
We're one ship, one team and we all work together. We will support our fellow departments so that not only will we strive for the Red 'E' but we assist the other departments so, as a team, we can win the Battle 'E'. There is no us vs them in engineering.

Finally, Sailorization and Mentoring:
Sailors are our #1 asset and we need to mentor them to make them better sailors, and we need to make new sailors feel welcome and a part of the team, and teach them Navy ways--that's sailorization--but make the GOOD sailors.

Anyway, I have to head out the door or I'm going to be late.