Sunday, July 17, 2011

Regarding Navy instruction, can you be put on report for this?

Hypothetically speaking, say a department takes on a new command-wide responsibility that involves quality control of millions of dollars in medication. The SOP is WAY out of date and you are being told this and that by different people, and procedure seems to change every day, but the SOP stays the same. Absolutely no formal training has been offered to any of the sailors responsible for this system. Out of 20 people, more than half are E3's while the rest are E4's. All of the sudden, when the **** hits the fan, everything falls back on the junior sailors and they are being written up left and right (and now threatened with drb/mast) for doing something wrong they didn't even realize they were doing wrong and are crying out for someone to give them an up to date SOP and offer them training so ONE way of doing things can be set in place and will be department-wide knowledge, instead of word of mouth instruction being passed down like "oh this changed, we do that now. Oh you can't do that anymore, we have to do this now." (when they remember to pass it down). My main question here is can these sailors be held this responsible even though they haven't received any training whatsoever? This is millions of dollars we're talking about here and I'm a firm believer that nothing can be done properly without adequate training. Can you give me the instruction number where this type of situation would be listed? I've searched, but only found info about NJP, not counselings and the counseling matrix. Any help appreciated, I've been wracking my brain with this thought.

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