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- Subject: NavNews Extra: Holiday Greetings from the CNO
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:17:13 GMT
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- Navy News Service - NAVNEWS BY EMAIL - navnews@nctamslant.navy.mil
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- The following message from the Chief of Naval Operations is forwarded
- for your information.
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- R 210001Z DEC 92
- FM CNO WASHINGTON DC//N00//
- TO NAVOP
- UNCLAS //N05000//
- NAVOP 034/92
- MSGID/GENADMIN/CNO//
- SUBJ/HOLIDAY GREETINGS//
-
- RMKS/1. As we celebrate the holidays with friends, family and
- shipmates, we can look back proudly at another year of service to
- our country and forward to a new year of challenges and opportunities.
- This seems an appropriate time to consider what we've accomplished
- this year and what we can expect in the year ahead.
-
- 2. As we bring 1992 to a close, we have much to be grateful for and
- much to be proud of -- most recently the outstanding performance of
- the Navy-Marine Corps team in Somalia. But the Navy as we know it
- today is fundamentally different from the Navy of just a year ago.
- We have made some significant and long lasting changes on every front.
-
- 3. We issued "...From the Sea," our new strategy which lays out our
- mission, our functions, our structure and our focus for the future.
- This white paper stresses the contributions of maritime forces in
- joint/combined operations and joins the Navy-Marine Corps team
- together much more closely to deal effectively with regional threats
- in coastal areas of the world. It is the blueprint which will take
- us into the next century.
-
- 4. We made steady progress in implementing total quality leadership
- and standardizing operations, training and inspection procedures in
- the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. We issued the first-ever Navy
- Policy Book and will distribute a "starter kit" in January to help
- Navy people put TQL to work at their commands. We have continued our
- efforts to consolidate, streamline and eliminate duplication across
- the board. We reorganized OPNAV to reduce headquarters staff, align
- it more closely with the Joint Staff and allow us to speak with one
- voice on program planning and procurement. We also closed down
- operations in the Philippines and Holy Loch, bases where the Navy had
- maintained a presence for many years.
-
- 5. We changed our operational procedures to help us cope with a Navy
- that has 54 fewer ships than it did a year ago. We gapped our
- presence in some areas, developed more flexible deployment schedules
- and tailored battle groups to respond to specific situations. By
- doing so, we have returned optempo/perstempo pretty much to normal
- after operation desert storm, and we're working hard to maintain
- these rates despite the drawdown. For the first time since World War
- II, we exercised with Russian ships and operated with them in the
- Persian Gulf. Finally, we completed the removal of tactical nukes
- from all our ships.
-
- 6. While there have been many significant changes in our Navy over
- the past year, there have also been many important constants. Even
- in this time of relative peace -- after dramatic changes in the world
- for which we can all be grateful -- our people are still out there,
- on station, ready to respond to crises, carry out national policy
- and protect American interests. More than 180 Navy ships deployed
- this year to carry out these important missions. Clearly, the cold
- war is over, but our people remain fully engaged throughout the
- world. They are supporting relief efforts in Somalia and enforcing
- the no-fly zone over southern Iraq. They are operating in the
- Adriatic and central Mediterranean, demonstrating our concern for
- events in the former Yugoslavia. And you will find Navy people in
- the Pacific and Caribbean patrolling the favorite routes of drug
- smugglers.
-
- 7. 1992 was another busy year for humanitarian assistance and
- disaster relief operations. American military forces continued to
- provide assistance to the Kurdish people in Operation Provide Comfort
- and to give safe haven at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to
- refugees fleeing instability and privation in Haiti. Our people have
- delivered food and medicines to parts of the former Soviet Union and
- Bosnia-Herzegovina. Closer to home, Navy men and women have provided
- disaster relief supplies and helped with clean up and rebuilding
- efforts following hurricanes and typhoons in Florida, Hawaii and
- Guam.
-
- 8. We continued, individually and as teams, to make significant
- contributions to our communities. Today, we have more than 1,000
- active partnerships to enhance education, health and citizenship of
- the nation's youth. Nine of these Navy partnerships received
- point-of-light recognition from the White House in 1992. About
- 17,000 Navy people, both military and civilian employees, support
- various programs as tutors, mentors, classroom assistants, coaches
- and in other roles. Recently, we announced a significant,
- evolutionary expansion of the Navy's education and community service
- efforts to include drug programs, health and fitness and
- environmental conservation. The generosity and enthusiasm of Navy
- men and women are a source of great personal pride for me.
-
- 9. Keeping our focus on people in 1992, we made significant strides
- in quality of life issues including increased child care and MWR
- funding, improved medical and dental care and more and better Navy
- housing. And a 1992 survey indicated our drug education and
- deterrence programs are paying major dividends.
-
- 10. We maintained this commitment to our people as the number of men
- and women on active duty dropped by nearly 20,000 in the past year.
- A host of personnel initiatives allowed us to avoid forcing a single
- officer or petty officer to leave the Navy before reaching retirement
- eligibility. For those who leave voluntarily, our transition
- assistance programs are in place to help people transition to a
- civilian lifestyle.
-
- 11. We have made significant progress toward instituting cultural
- changes needed to eliminate sexual harassment in our Navy. Every man
- and woman in the Navy participated in a one-day stand-down for sexual
- harassment prevention training, and new training courses are being
- developed to ensure our people understand the Navy's core values of
- honor, commitment and courage.
-
- 12. If you want two good indicators of the state of the Navy today,
- consider that recruiting and retention are still at all time highs,
- and despite many changes and challenges, the Navy hasn't missed a
- beat. You've gone everywhere we've needed you. You've done
- difficult and dangerous work, and you've performed superbly. The
- officers and sailors I meet are excited about the future and
- committed to doing the job.
-
- 13. The year ahead will be full of challenges for Navy people as we
- remain on station around the world. We will continue to be called
- upon for a wide range of missions by our nation's leaders, but we
- will have fewer resources with which to execute these missions.
- Public and Congressional scrutiny will continue as competition for
- defense funds grows keener. We will be required to demonstrate the
- cost effectiveness, as well as the combat effectiveness, of every
- platform, system and weapon. The magnitude of the many challenges
- facing the Navy is clear; but if we pull together and keep our
- focus on people and quality of effort, we'll maintain our position as
- the world's finest Navy.
-
- 14. As we gather to observe the holidays, let us celebrate what
- we've accomplished in 1992 and the contributions we have made to our
- country, our communities and our fellow citizens. The men and women
- on duty away from family and friends have a special place in our
- hearts during this holiday season. Thank you all for your sacrifices,
- your dedication and the great things you accomplished in 1992. I
- look forward to a bright and fulfilling 1993. My family and I wish
- all of you and hours a happy holiday and a safe, prosperous new year
-
- 15. Released by ADM F. B. Kelso, II.//
- -USN-
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