I'm sure most here have heard about the USS Harry S. Truman a few months ago, how problems prevented the carrier from deploying on time, resulting in the battlegroup deploying without a carrier and the deployment extension of the USS Abraham Lincoln.
The problems were significant and the original engineering assessment was the repairs would be quite long in coming.
Well, we finished the repairs months ahead of projection and the Truman recently deployed.
This morning there was a ceremony for all the people involved in this and Vice Admiral Moore personally drove down from DC to express his appreciation. (Apparently it was a great excuse to get out of DC, too!) He is the Commander of Naval Sea Systems Command in DC, our shipyard CO's boss.
The CNO also sent us an email expressing his appreciation.
It was send by him personally via email to 144 people, by name. Not a group email to the shipyard "for dissemination", not to the various codes and shops in the shipyard. Not by an administrative assistant for him, either. He had to personally find each of our names in the email address book and add them to the "To" block himself.
It doesn't start off with my name, as an individual email, but the fact that the CNO himself would take the time out of his day to address his appreciation like this impresses me.
All of us involved in this received an award from the shipyard and I was one who also got a cash award. Not anything on the level of the big lottery, mind you, but $500 ain't something insignificant to me!
It certainly makes up for the misspelling of my name on the award, anyway!
My day is made...now off to bed so I can go back to work tonight!
The problems were significant and the original engineering assessment was the repairs would be quite long in coming.
Well, we finished the repairs months ahead of projection and the Truman recently deployed.
This morning there was a ceremony for all the people involved in this and Vice Admiral Moore personally drove down from DC to express his appreciation. (Apparently it was a great excuse to get out of DC, too!) He is the Commander of Naval Sea Systems Command in DC, our shipyard CO's boss.
The CNO also sent us an email expressing his appreciation.
It was send by him personally via email to 144 people, by name. Not a group email to the shipyard "for dissemination", not to the various codes and shops in the shipyard. Not by an administrative assistant for him, either. He had to personally find each of our names in the email address book and add them to the "To" block himself.
It doesn't start off with my name, as an individual email, but the fact that the CNO himself would take the time out of his day to address his appreciation like this impresses me.
All of us involved in this received an award from the shipyard and I was one who also got a cash award. Not anything on the level of the big lottery, mind you, but $500 ain't something insignificant to me!
It certainly makes up for the misspelling of my name on the award, anyway!
My day is made...now off to bed so I can go back to work tonight!
