Photo By Michael ODay | Mrs. Nicole Taylor pin First Class insignia on Hospital Corpsman 1st Class (HM1) David...... read more read more
What is to be done with a Sailor who has been selected as Navy Medicine West’s (NMW) Sailor of the Year for three consecutive years and consistently provides sustained superior performance?
The answer—secretly bring his wife to the command’s morning staff meeting and meritoriously advance him to Petty Officer 1st Class in front of family, friends and coworkers.
On April 1, Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class (HM2) David Taylor, currently serving as the executive assistant to the command master chief and leading petty officer of the administration department, sat speechless as NMW Command Master Chief Loren Rucker and his wife, Mrs. Nicole Taylor, recited his list of awards and accomplishments before calling him to the stage to pin on his new rank.
The Meritorious Advancement Program (MAP) is intended to give commanding officers (CO) the ability to advance eligible personnel in pay grades E-5 and below to the next higher pay grade.
Rucker said, “It’s Sailors like Taylor who listen and take the advice of their leaders and utilize that information to help themselves and those around them. They are the ones that typically stand out. He is definitely the kind of guy we like to keep in our Navy and in leadership positions in our Navy.”
The program is specifically designed to give COs the opportunity to recognize their best Sailors by advancing them when they are ready for the next level of responsibility.
Rucker said, “When I was at Naval Hospital Yokosuka, he was already here [at Navy Medicine West] and just the interactions I had with him before I got to this job, I was like, man I can’t wait to work with a fantastic second class like him. He’s been a first class in second class clothing for a long time and so it was just really a ceremony to make it official.”
The program allows commands to better shape their workforce and the Navy by developing and rewarding the most talented Sailors, like HM1 Taylor.
Navy Medicine West (NMW) leads Navy Medicine’s Western Pacific health care system and global research and development enterprise. Throughout the region, NMW provides medical care to nearly 700,000 beneficiaries across 10 naval hospitals, two dental battalions, and 51 branch clinics located throughout the West Coast of the U.S., Asia, and the Pacific. Globally, NMW oversees eight research laboratories that deliver research expertise in support of warfighter health and readiness.
| Date Taken: | 04.01.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 04.09.2019 17:16 |
| Story ID: | 317492 |
| Location: | SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, US |
| Hometown: | SPRING HILL, KANSAS, US |
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