Agreed!! Hopefully she has great friends with the same mindset... Social media is another poison of society.
proud daddy... :)
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abodyjoe
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ok i gotta brag a bit about this kid.. its a little long and hopefully i can type it and make it make sense..lol
so in order for her to become a chief petty officer (CPO) in the sea cadets she has to staff a recruit training. this year she decided to do it over her christmas break from school.. i took her and jamie to the airport christmas day. takes a lot for a kid to give up their christmas vacation in my opinion for something like that.. she really wants to be a CPO though. she as a Petty Officer first class (PO1) is the the highest rank and Lead Petty Officer (LPO) of her home unit, unless one of the other cadets rank up before her.. the closest two are a full rank behind but already had their staffing a recruit training in the books so if she didn't get this training in there was a possibility of being passed.
a coupole days before they left for corpus christi the training commander informed her that she (and two others) will be staffing recruit training (what they signed up for) plus helping out staffing the Petty Officer Leadership Academy (POLA). that took her back some.. luckily she still has all the information from when she went through POLA.
she reports to the the ship (USS Lexington) the day after christmas with the rest of the staff (a day before the other cadets).
now i don't know when all this stuff when down but i assume it was a day or two in to the trainings..rylee was in charge of the POLA charlie unit and i guess helping in recruit training too.... aparantly the CPO cadet was training the POLA cadets how she wanted and not how the lieutenant wanted. because of that the lieutenant demotes the CPO and promotes rylee. now rylee is no longer helping with recruit training and is in charge and running the entire POLA training (answering directly to the lieutenant) plus directing the charlie squad. thats pretty damn awesome...
as i'm watching the live stream of graduation rylee being a squad leader had to get on stage in front of a large room of cadet family members and call each member of her squad up. thats something i'm not doing..lol.. takes some balls to get up in front of a bunch of strangers like that in my opinion.. so she does that with her voice pretty much gone from haveing to command all week.. it was actually kinda funny. once all the POLA cadets were on stage the lieutenant is speaking and awarding two honor cadets from POLA. then he adds a third.. a honor staff cadet which he awarded to rylee... talk about a proud dad.. that kid was thrown into the fire and impresses someone enough to get that award.
i think she will look back and be glad she went to training this past week. she ended up knowinhg like 5 people there that she had met at previous training which i think is pretty cool...
oh one other thing i got a kick out of. being that the CPO got demoted and rylee got promoted they had to bump another girl up from just being there for POLA training to be in charge of ALFA squad. that girl was awarded honor cadet. really cool.. funny thing is she was also from new jersey. i told rylee, see that. jersey girls kick *** and take no ****. aparantly after they both were awarded honor cadets they were talking **** about being from jersey. and jersey girls being at the top.lol
so in order for her to become a chief petty officer (CPO) in the sea cadets she has to staff a recruit training. this year she decided to do it over her christmas break from school.. i took her and jamie to the airport christmas day. takes a lot for a kid to give up their christmas vacation in my opinion for something like that.. she really wants to be a CPO though. she as a Petty Officer first class (PO1) is the the highest rank and Lead Petty Officer (LPO) of her home unit, unless one of the other cadets rank up before her.. the closest two are a full rank behind but already had their staffing a recruit training in the books so if she didn't get this training in there was a possibility of being passed.
a coupole days before they left for corpus christi the training commander informed her that she (and two others) will be staffing recruit training (what they signed up for) plus helping out staffing the Petty Officer Leadership Academy (POLA). that took her back some.. luckily she still has all the information from when she went through POLA.
she reports to the the ship (USS Lexington) the day after christmas with the rest of the staff (a day before the other cadets).
now i don't know when all this stuff when down but i assume it was a day or two in to the trainings..rylee was in charge of the POLA charlie unit and i guess helping in recruit training too.... aparantly the CPO cadet was training the POLA cadets how she wanted and not how the lieutenant wanted. because of that the lieutenant demotes the CPO and promotes rylee. now rylee is no longer helping with recruit training and is in charge and running the entire POLA training (answering directly to the lieutenant) plus directing the charlie squad. thats pretty damn awesome...
as i'm watching the live stream of graduation rylee being a squad leader had to get on stage in front of a large room of cadet family members and call each member of her squad up. thats something i'm not doing..lol.. takes some balls to get up in front of a bunch of strangers like that in my opinion.. so she does that with her voice pretty much gone from haveing to command all week.. it was actually kinda funny. once all the POLA cadets were on stage the lieutenant is speaking and awarding two honor cadets from POLA. then he adds a third.. a honor staff cadet which he awarded to rylee... talk about a proud dad.. that kid was thrown into the fire and impresses someone enough to get that award.
i think she will look back and be glad she went to training this past week. she ended up knowinhg like 5 people there that she had met at previous training which i think is pretty cool...
oh one other thing i got a kick out of. being that the CPO got demoted and rylee got promoted they had to bump another girl up from just being there for POLA training to be in charge of ALFA squad. that girl was awarded honor cadet. really cool.. funny thing is she was also from new jersey. i told rylee, see that. jersey girls kick *** and take no ****. aparantly after they both were awarded honor cadets they were talking **** about being from jersey. and jersey girls being at the top.lol
She's definitely something to be proud about most kids these days don't even want to quit playing a video game or go do something constructive or creative , she is getting hers in early.....You did a great job!!!
dusterbing the peace
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It’s great to see this level of dedication at such a young age, it’ll serve her well!!!
340sFastback
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Amazing young girl. The most important thing you do in life is raising kids. Nothing is more important then that. And you are acing it. Congrats!
OUTSTANDING, that is awesome!!
"Jersey girls kick *** and take no ****". Of course they do, my wife tells me that daily.................
"Jersey girls kick *** and take no ****". Of course they do, my wife tells me that daily.................
abodyjoe
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receiving her staff honor cadet award. wish i could heve been there.
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