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From Naval Education and Training Command Public Affairs
PENSACOLA, Fla. – A Limited Duty Officers (LDO)/Chief Warrant Officers (CWO) Board of Directors meeting was conducted at Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) headquarters onboard Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, April 23-24.
The meeting was designed to bring together senior leadership from each LDO/CWO category – surface, submarine, aviation, general series and staff corps -- to discuss concerns and best practices necessary to maintain community health and sustainability.
“The board of directors is essential to synch the 52 different LDO/CWO designators into one unified community direction,” said Capt. Ed Callahan, head LDO/CWO community manager. “By understanding the challenges of each category, we can develop best practices that will benefit the entire community.”
One of the greatest shared challenges discussed during the meeting was accessions and promotions.
“To be able to meet face-to-face with other leaders in our community opened my eyes to how we can better support each other,” said Chief Warrant Officer 5 Steve Scrambling, office in charge, Southeast Calibration Center, a prior chief electronics technician who was commissioned through the CWO program in 2011. “The board was able to develop a road map for LDO/CWO career progression. We are now better prepared to answer the common questions: ‘What is the next tour I need?’ and ‘What is the best job for my future?’.”
LDO/CWO are two separate programs that provide the Navy with officer technical managers and technical specialists who exercise leadership in key positions throughout the service.
“The LDO/CWO community is vital to the Navy because we provide critical support to the unrestricted line and restricted line,” said Callahan. “We fill billets that are normally technical in nature, not in the standard line or staff corps career paths, and not conducive to necessary continual development of our warfighters.”
As officer technical managers of the line or staff corps, LDOs progressively advance within broad technical fields related to their former enlisted ratings. They fill leadership and management positions at the O-1 to O-6 level that require technical background and skills not attainable through normal development within other officer designators.
“The LDO program helped me to become a better leader, mentor and an enabler on an even greater scale,” said Capt. Michael Whitt, NETC’s chief of staff, who enlisted in the Navy in 1983 and earned his commission through the LDO program in 1994. “Being an LDO allowed me to progress up the officer ranks and being promoted higher up into the senior chain of command, thus allowing me to have an even greater impact on the thing I love the most, taking care of the people and making my Navy better!”
As commissioned officers of the line or staff corps, CWOs possess the authority and are qualified by extensive experience and knowledge to direct the most difficult and exacting operations within a given occupational specialty.
“The CWO program allowed me to attain additional leadership roles where I could use my technical skills to impact our community,” said Chief Warrant Officer 5 John Theriot, operations officer, Navy Experimental Diving Unit, who received his commission through the CWO program in 2005. “Not only am I in a position of influence on community policies and procedures, but I am also able to get my hands on everything in our community.”
For more information on the LDO/CWO programs, contact the LDO/CWO community managers at 901-847-3042/2236 and visit the LDO/CWO community managers forum on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/10150114349755436/.
For more information on NETC, visit https://www.public.navy.mil/netc/ and https://www.facebook.com/netcpao/.
| Date Taken: | 04.24.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 04.26.2019 09:45 |
| Story ID: | 319647 |
| Location: | PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, US |
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