{"id":136365,"date":"2023-01-22T10:19:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T15:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=136365"},"modified":"2023-01-22T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T15:19:29","slug":"ask-me-anything-mcpon-goes-on-reddit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=136365","title":{"rendered":"Ask me anything… MCPON goes on Reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MCPON James Honea invites Sailors to Reddit discussion (Twitter\/@NavyMCPON)<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

James Honea, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, took to Reddit and opened a discussion where he encouraged Sailors with Reddit accounts to ask him questions. For approximately two hours, he fielded questions related to health, compensation, quality-of-life, etc. He zeroed in on mental health, pay issues, and beards. It appears that issues that faced the Navy during the drawdown of the 1990s are impacting Sailors today.<\/p>\n

From the military Times:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Honea spent roughly two hours answering questions, offering insight on several issues important to men and women in the fleet while promising to circle back on other queries.<\/p>\n

Before he started answering questions, Honea addressed three issues often on the minds of sailors: mental health, pay issues and beards.<\/p>\n

Honea, who enlisted 35 years ago, noted that a Navy beard study directed by Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro remains ongoing.<\/p>\n

“Beards is not a hill I want to die on, one side or the other,” he wrote. “I understand this is something many of you have brought up and find important and I hear you.”<\/p>\n

He noted that problems with the service’s pay and personnel systems “are not acceptable,” and that while personnel support detachments, or PSDs, are not coming back, staff at the replacement transaction service centers “are working hard every day to process transitions quickly and accurately.”<\/p>\n

“We are not going back to the past to change our future,” he said of PSDs. “PSDs had problems as well and [are] why we’re going through this transformation. Reminder closing PSDs are not the sole reason for this backlog.”<\/p>\n

As for the ongoing pay and paperwork problems, he advised sailors to “continue to elevate issues to leadership to address concerns. If necessary, elevate the concern to me. As your MCPON, I will get involved to make this right.”<\/p>\n

Honea repeatedly advised sailors to message him about issues they brought up during the AMA.<\/p>\n

While Honea urged sailors to seek mental health help if they need it, he also acknowledged the provider shortage facing not just the Navy but the United States in general.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The military Times has additional information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Honea, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, took to Reddit and opened a discussion where he encouraged Sailors with Reddit accounts to ask him questions. For approximately two hours, he fielded questions related to health, compensation, quality-of-life, etc. He zeroed in on mental health, pay issues, and beards. It appears that issues that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-ztr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}