Navy to open its first CPO Academy

Navy to open its first CPO Academy
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=36127

{EXCERPT}, by Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes European edition,
Thursday, March 30, 2006

Sandra Jontz / S&S Chief Petty Officer Aaron Caples rings the ?Chief?s
Bell? last September after being pinned with the coveted golden
anchors. The bell-ringing tradition will continue as the Navy prepares
to require attendance of a CPO Academy for newly selected chief petty
officers.

For the first time in the rank?s more than 100 years, newly selected
chief petty officers will be going to school.

A formalized, structured, no-kidding-sitting-in-a-classroom school.

And fellow sailors worldwide will be watching to see whether the
Navy?s first-ever CPO Academy, to be held in Europe, makes the grade.

Change is hard, Navy leaders acknowledge, and some current chiefs have
bristled at the thought of a program that would alter one of the most
sacred and coveted Navy traditions.

But Master Chief Petty Officer Anthony Evangelista, fleet master chief
for U.S. Naval Forces Europe/6th Fleet, said, ?Absent this, there?s no
structure? to the transforming of enlisted sailors into naval leaders.
?That?s the key point ? No one does anything universally. Everyone
kind of builds the bridge as they?re crossing it, and we can?t do that
anymore.?

On Aug. 29, petty officers first class selected as the next wave of
chief petty offi...

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