By Mark D. Faram - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Sep 2, 2007 10:22:50 EDT
A one-week, mandatory leadership course still stands between nearly 10,000 active and Reserve sailors and their next shot at advancement.
And commanders who won’t — or can’t — send their sailors to the course are largely to blame. Unfortunately, however, individual sailors are paying the price.
The difficulty of getting commanders to release sailors for required leadership training is a well-known, fleetwide problem.
In fact, just one year ago more than 28,000 untrained sailors were in the same leaky boat. But while the Navy has slashed that number by more than half over the past 12 months after alarm bells were sounded by Navy education officials, the service still has a serious attendance problem.
More at http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/08/navy_leadership_070902w/
