Serving the NATO, Naples and Gaeta Military Community in Italy Russell Egnor Navy Media Awards – 2016 Best Newspaper in the Navy
65th year, No. 5
Friday, February 14, 2020
2020 Shore Enterprise Sailor of the Year Named By Chief Mass Communication Specialists Brian Morales Commander, Navy Installations Command Public Affairs
A Fort Lauderdale, Florida native currently assigned to Naval Support Activity Naples, Italy was selected as the 2020 Shore Enterprise Sailor of the Year at Commander Navy Installations Command headquarters at the Washington Navy Yard, Feb. 6. Navy Counselor 1st Class Asha Clark was selected from among 71 other installation Sailor of the Year recipients to earn the prestigious award. “Remember that this is not so much about the past and what you’ve done, but it’s about the future and what we’re going to ask you as you head into the next step,” said Vice Adm. Mary Jackson, commander of CNIC. “You are all winners.” Clark, representing Navy Region Europe, Africa Central, was among the three finalists who went before the CNIC Sailor of the Year board conducted by a panel of senior enlisted leaders. “Dedicated to the Navy mission and my Sailors, I strive to provide the absolute best support to my command, my Sailors and the Navy,” said Clark. The other two candidates who competed for the CNIC award were Air Traffic Controller 1st Class Russell A. Churchwell, from Sapulpa, Oklahoma representing Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia and Master-at-Arms 1st Class Luis A. Rodriguez, from Hialeah, Florida representing Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. SAILOR OF THE YEAR
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Today’s War for Talent By Vice Adm. John Nowell with Lt. Daniel Stefanus
Navy Counselor 1st Class Asha Clark, assigned to Naval Support Activity (NSA) Naples, was selected as the 2020 Shore Enterprise Sailor of the Year at Commander Navy Installations Command headquarters at the Washington Navy Yard, Feb. 6. Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Donavan K. Patubo
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Our nation faces the greatest military challenges since the fall of the Soviet Union. A quick flip through recent issues of Proceedings will turn up a sea of references to “Great Power Competition,” and, more specifically, Russia and China. To confront these disrupters of our nation’s peace and prosperity, crucial attention has been paid to developing the missiles, platforms, and emerging technologies the U.S. Navy will need in the future battlespace. However, these investments are only as lethal as the warfighters who wield them. Our team here at MyNavy HR’s mission is to recruit, retain, and manage the talent of the sailors who can win those wars and empower them throughout their careers, however long or short. Within our nation’s thriving civilian labor market, however, the pool of possible recruits, and their desire to serve in the military, are the lowest in our nation’s history. Despite that, we must be more selective than ever before as tomorrow’s sailors will fight at the edge of human-machine integration, cyberspace, grayzone conflict, and hyperwar. These future leaders need to be critical thinkers, life-long learners, and savvy technologists in ways unthinkable to the architects of the personnel system we inherited. Simply put, the Navy’s personnel system is showing its age. Our legacy personnel baselines were developed at a time when bachelors and single income households defined the service. WAR FOR TALENT
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