So much worse than the chief's mess in general. Once they see themselves as having the co-equal power of a captain, much less an admiral once they get to the fleet level, it goes to their head. They're not just the HM1 who gets a chief's pension after 19 years of failing to promote. They're not even the backstabbing chief trying to make senior. The proudest moment of my short career was pulling a patient off the Bonhomme Richard under positional authority against the demands of both its CO and CMC. Legally as medical they couldn't do anything because I could theoretically call the admiral in charge of Navy Medicine who underwrites my orders, but they were setting sail in two hours and needed him. He just returned too drunk and I thought he met the threshold for poisoning, just enough to wave my E-3 dick around an entire ship.
I don't have any cool stories but the fucknut CMC on my cruiser tried to tell me the safety of the ship was more important than my family or my own person. I looked at him and said, agree to disagree.
Executive decisions like that are why the Bonhomme Richard was later torched along with that submarine. Burn 'em all down and maybe we'll have enough money for safe bridges.
Ohhhh fuck I just remembered the next CMC and fuck do I have a story though it would be self identifying so I'm not going to go into detail. He effectively conducted his own Captains Mast on me. And I did nothing wrong. When he realized he basically punished me (illegal) and I did nothing wrong (bad optics) he pulled me aside and apologized with the worst fake apology of all time. Lucky for him I was set to transfer in 3 days and was in a zero fucks mood so I just told him to leave me the fuck alone and I'll forget about it.
So much worse than the chief's mess in general. Once they see themselves as having the co-equal power of a captain, much less an admiral once they get to the fleet level, it goes to their head. They're not just the HM1 who gets a chief's pension after 19 years of failing to promote. They're not even the backstabbing chief trying to make senior. The proudest moment of my short career was pulling a patient off the Bonhomme Richard under positional authority against the demands of both its CO and CMC. Legally as medical they couldn't do anything because I could theoretically call the admiral in charge of Navy Medicine who underwrites my orders, but they were setting sail in two hours and needed him. He just returned too drunk and I thought he met the threshold for poisoning, just enough to wave my E-3 dick around an entire ship.
o7 o7 o7 fuck yeah.
I don't have any cool stories but the fucknut CMC on my cruiser tried to tell me the safety of the ship was more important than my family or my own person. I looked at him and said, agree to disagree.
He was a complete prick to me for 2 years on.
Executive decisions like that are why the Bonhomme Richard was later torched along with that submarine. Burn 'em all down and maybe we'll have enough money for safe bridges.
Preach it. The navy is the epitome of waste.
Ohhhh fuck I just remembered the next CMC and fuck do I have a story though it would be self identifying so I'm not going to go into detail. He effectively conducted his own Captains Mast on me. And I did nothing wrong. When he realized he basically punished me (illegal) and I did nothing wrong (bad optics) he pulled me aside and apologized with the worst fake apology of all time. Lucky for him I was set to transfer in 3 days and was in a zero fucks mood so I just told him to leave me the fuck alone and I'll forget about it.