Fleet Plan of the Day
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- Brad Williamson
- POD - SSN 680
Honoring all veterans, those who served before and those serving now, who by committing their lives and their sacred honor to defend our Constitution and our way of life, have become, with us, brothers in arms.
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- Brad Williamson
- POD - SSN 680
It has been an interesting week - on Wednesday our server was blasted by yet another malicious attack that infected over 170,000 files! So if you have been trying to access the site in the last couple of days, and found it down, or "forbidden" (sounds frightening!), rest assured that it was automatically blocked 'for your protection!'. Of course, we discovered that the attack exploited a weakness in the old, nay, antique software that ran the website, so you can blame it on me, for taking so long in upgrading the site. As best as we can tell, none of your personal contact information was compromised, only the files that drive the display of the website.
So, on to the good news! The old site is gone! I've had enough chasing malware and trying to plug the holes in the old site long enough to get transferred over to the new site, so I'm done with it. The new site is online!
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- Brad Williamson
- POD - SSN 680
What's new, you say? I'm so glad you asked.
First, for those of you who keep track of those things, I'm no longer employed by American Electric Power at the D.C. Cook Nuclear Plant. My summary termination a few weeks ago was a surprise to most of the people at the plant, especially given the huge success we achieved in turning the corner on a deteriorating plant culture and restoring trust in the organization. But it does serve to remind one, that despite the apparent transparency of the new wardrobe, it pays to be sensitive to the fact that the emperor may have spent a great deal of money on it. Oh, and be careful who you trust. Just sayin'.
So it's back to the contracting world for me - if human error is driving your high reliability organization crazy, and you want to drive safety and human performance events to zero, don't hesitate to drop me a line. I'm available!
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- Brad Williamson
- POD - SSN 680
The sharp crack of seven guns, times three. We remember.
The rustle and pop of colors, snapping in the wind. We will not forget.
The cold silence of white stone, standing at attention, surrounded by the smell of new-mown grass, echoes back in voices that have been silenced for years. We are here.
The bugle call, mournful and forlorn, wafts around us, elusive as the memory of those we came to honor.
IN WATERS DEEP
In ocean wastes no poppies blow,
No crosses stand in ordered row,
There young hearts sleep… beneath the wave…
The spirited, the good, the brave,
But stars a constant vigil keep,
For them who lie beneath the deep.
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- Brad Williamson
- POD - SSN 680
Who can forget a memorable cruise? Cancun? St. Thomas? Guadalajara? Belize? A few days of memories with spouse, friends, or family, and you have a lifetime of memories to treasure forever!
That's what I'm talking about!
In that vein, I offer Med Run 1976. What memories! Who could forget? La Spezia, Bizerte, Naples, La Maddelena...the cruise of a lifetime.
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- Brad Williamson
- POD - SSN 680
Sean Gawne's reminder that it was 30 years ago that we did 'absolutely nothing to nobody nowhere near anywhere we would never be caught dead at' or something like that, snapped me out of my near comatose Friday evening exhaustion and I realized that I hadn't written anything on the site in almost a year. Well, my apologies, shipmates.
It's been a busy last ten months. I'm the Human Performance Manager at DC Cook Nuclear Power Plant, and it was almost exactly a year ago that I was commissioned with turning the plant's culture around. I'll spare you the gruesome details, but a year later, and we've really done it. I can't believe the change in things at the station - I wish I knew the things about human behavior I know now back when we were on the boat. It could have really been a different place, not that I'd trade those experiences for anything.
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- Brad Williamson
- POD - SSN 680
Saturday morning started off with a bang. I sat down at my desk at D.C. Cook (we are in the middle of a refueling outage, so I'm pretty much living there right now) and found this e-mail from Lee Johnson.
As a site administrator, that has roughly the same effect as waking up to the sound of the collision alarm! So I jumped over to the website, and sure enough, I found an entertaining and visually appealing message (not!) from some poor misguided son of Islam, who went on to suggest that "I bear witness to God but Allah" (sic) and "I bear witness that Mohammad is his slave and messenger". Well, there's a fine howdy-do, I said. I'd show you his handiwork, but he doesn't deserve the privilege of additional air-time I'd give him by posting his hack.
