Command Slots

Draken wrote:Certain admiral could want him in her fleet as CLAC commander, so Promotion Board will be pushing that as hard as possible.

While Harrington does work with influence, she never stoops to using it the way Draskovic and Janacek did. She pushed for Henke as a squadron commander--but Henke would have been a squadron commander regardless. She insisted on getting her own picks with Draskovic for the Sidemore Station, but did not argue at all with Cortez when she got the Wayfarer command.

I think she stepped on Draskovic so hard because "everyone knew" that she didn't play those games; she just wanted to make the point clear to all of them that she COULD play that game if they weren't nice to her. By that, I mean the Janacek Admiralty which tried to get rid of her, then tried to bar her armsmen, then cut off joint R&D with Grayson-- everyone in the HR government treated her like she wouldn't fight back in their venue of politics.

And she doesn't. Unless you really tick her off.

Rob

roseandheather wrote:

Armed Neo-Bob wrote:
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We don't have too much info on Higgins, anyway. Is he married?.
Rob

As far as we know he's still Admiral of the Fleet, yes, but he's been there for awhile - they might rotate him out soon.

And yes, he is married - to me.

In all seriousness, he was married to a relative of Janacek's in War of Honor (which was how he got command at Grendelsbane, despite him apparently not being a twit of any sort), but that was quite awhile ago, and we don't have any textev from MoH, I don't think - she might not have survived the Yawata Strike. (Or First Manticore, if she's also Navy).

If Caparelli didn't have someone to replace Rear Adm. Khumalo back before Monica, I suspect the Admiralty is also short of full admirals to assign to Home Fleet; quite aside from the responsibilities of the jo, it is the sort of posting that will end up with debates in Parliament.

Unless you want to give the job to Chakrabarti? I liked him better after he quit; and WH said he might have known (and gone along with, and kept Janacek uninformed) about the things Tuscarelli (sp) was doing at BuShips. Trouble is, he's too closely associated to the build-down.

Rob

Armed Neo-Bob wrote:

Draken wrote:Certain admiral could want him in her fleet as CLAC commander, so Promotion Board will be pushing that as hard as possible.

While Harrington does work with influence, she never stoops to using it the way Draskovic and Janacek did. She pushed for Henke as a squadron commander--but Henke would have been a squadron commander regardless. She insisted on getting her own picks with Draskovic for the Sidemore Station, but did not argue at all with Cortez when she got the Wayfarer command.

I think she stepped on Draskovic so hard because "everyone knew" that she didn't play those games; she just wanted to make the point clear to all of them that she COULD play that game if they weren't nice to her. By that, I mean the Janacek Admiralty which tried to get rid of her, then tried to bar her armsmen, then cut off joint R&D with Grayson-- everyone in the HR government treated her like she wouldn't fight back in their venue of politics.

And she doesn't. Unless you really tick her off.

Rob

There's a little more to it than that with Cortez and Wayfarer vs. Draskovic and Marsh. Cortez apologetically could not give her the freedom a commander off in such a command would ordinarily have picking her senior subordinates; Draskovik, for no military purpose, tried to deny her that freedom when everyone she wanted was perfectly well available.

She didn't give Cortez any flack over it because he was right about it and had the right attitude. Draskovic was neither right nor even conducting herself as well as she may've even determined to screw with a flag officer - and she got bucked down appropriately as a result.

Khumalo post could be given to commodore or captain(sg), now 10th Fleet is main force in Talbott, so why we should create two different chains of command. Terekhow is on fast track for Admiral rank, so why don't give him some time as division or squadron commander in Honor fleet?
I won't be surprised if size of squadrons will go up, six ship one is great, but we need a lot of commanders for them and at the moment we don't have enough of them.
About Jaruwalski I checked one thing in description of Crusher and she should go through that, she is now captain(sg)? and officer cannot get higher rank, then Lt. commander without Crusher.
One thing about BuPers, Cortez is apolitical as possible and Draskovic wasn't and she try to break the tradition of RMN. Cortex should be thinking about certain Lt. Zilwicki and her father. He was working for Navy for few years and getting him back on board would be good idea, especially in R&D. Zilwicki and Hearns are going to be one of best future officers of Alliance.

Armed Neo-Bob wrote:

roseandheather wrote:As far as we know he's still Admiral of the Fleet, yes, but he's been there for awhile - they might rotate him out soon.

And yes, he is married - to me.

In all seriousness, he was married to a relative of Janacek's in War of Honor (which was how he got command at Grendelsbane, despite him apparently not being a twit of any sort), but that was quite awhile ago, and we don't have any textev from MoH, I don't think - she might not have survived the Yawata Strike. (Or First Manticore, if she's also Navy).

If Caparelli didn't have someone to replace Rear Adm. Khumalo back before Monica, I suspect the Admiralty is also short of full admirals to assign to Home Fleet; quite aside from the responsibilities of the jo, it is the sort of posting that will end up with debates in Parliament.

Unless you want to give the job to Chakrabarti? I liked him better after he quit; and WH said he might have known (and gone along with, and kept Janacek uninformed) about the things Tuscarelli (sp) was doing at BuShips. Trouble is, he's too closely associated to the build-down.

Rob

Chakrabarti deserves redemption as far as I'm concerned. The only thing he did "wrong" was not send his career down in flames by arguing with Janacek loudly and in no uncertain terms. Give the man a task force and let him earn the respect of his peers back, I say.

Draken wrote:Khumalo post could be given to commodore or captain(sg), now 10th Fleet is main force in Talbott, so why we should create two different chains of command. Terekhow is on fast track for Admiral rank, so why don't give him some time as division or squadron commander in Honor fleet?
I won't be surprised if size of squadrons will go up, six ship one is great, but we need a lot of commanders for them and at the moment we don't have enough of them.
About Jaruwalski I checked one thing in description of Crusher and she should go through that, she is now captain(sg)? and officer cannot get higher rank, then Lt. commander without Crusher.
One thing about BuPers, Cortez is apolitical as possible and Draskovic wasn't and she try to break the tradition of RMN. Cortex should be thinking about certain Lt. Zilwicki and her father. He was working for Navy for few years and getting him back on board would be good idea, especially in R&D. Zilwicki and Hearns are going to be one of best future officers of Alliance.

There aren't two different chains of command in Talbott. Michelle reports to Khumalo, who is in charge not only of Tenth Fleet but all the various LAC squadrons stationed in the multitude of systems around the Quadrant and also liaising with the various SDFs in the area. Henke commands Tenth Fleet, but in the Talbott Quadrant, the buck stops with Khumalo, not her.

Um no. Michelle answers to Caparelli. She just works for Khumlow. She isn't in his chain of command.

Her job is to do fleety things and support Khumlow and the govenor as requested, if memory serves.

Armed Neo-Bob wrote:
When Scotty will be promoted again is a good question. He made senior grade Captain only after the Battle of Manticore, which isn't all that long ago now--a bit over a year?

RFC had Henke say pretty much the same as Dafmeister in SftS. You get a well rounded officer from someone with a variety of different experiences, not keeping someone in the same narrow slots.

He'll keep the CruDiv until they can promote him to Commodore; but he needed command time with more conventional ships before any Promotion Board will go for it. Something about no officer being really tested until they had had a cruiser command. . . to refer to HoS.

Rob

The is really no question that Scotty is on the fast track to flag rank. How fast is fast, we don't know.

Don

Ok on Andrea Jarwalski was promoted to Capt(JG) at the end of 1914 PD. When High Ridge and Janacek took over she more than likely was placed or went voluntarily on half-pay. Remember who she basically told was an ass(Santino) and who that ass was family friends (North Hollow) with. She was also one of HH new proteges.

As to Scotty he is being fast tracked and groomed for higher command. He is currently CO CruDiv 94.1. When the rest of CruRon 94 showed up he would have more than likely been promoted to command the whole squadron having been familiar with the TQ AOR.

Poor Andrea.... except that she's serving with the RMN's premier fleet admiral, and is WAY more effective in her spot there than anywhere else in the RMN, which is why she's still there.

Keep in mind, while according to Allison Harrington's analysis of her hubbies family DNA, apparently the Harrington's tend to be in the high 95+ percenters, Honor's not some genius without compare in the known galaxy. It's stated that some of the better Havenite officers are tactically close to peer level (primarily Theisman and Tourville, and a few others) but that she tends to have "the touch" which makes her a devastating command officer.

Back to the good Commander now Captain Senior grade... We all know that by now Andrea would likely ace the Crusher exams rather easily, so why not just ship her off and make it official? Then put her in command of a big squadron or battle group somewhere...

Easy, because she is one of the few RMN officers capable of sharpening Honor's tactical sword, now that Hamish Alexander is stuck near Manticore as a space Lord, not out at Trevor's star, etc. and has a reputation for being a rather savage opponent. When Honor is gaming out a possible fleet engagement, who do you think is designing and running the early opp-force and battle force simulations before handing the plans off for full-up fleet simulations, so that Honor's ships aren't doing the same old gimme sims and have to work for a victory?

Think of it this way, there's three main fleets that we are reading about right now, plus Sarnow's ships out in Silesia where they are busy stomping corrupt star system governments and will presumably be doing so for a while. Sarnow is known to be a superior tactician in his own right, and will have officers fitting his tasks with his fleet. Home fleet is busy rebuilding but is primarily a defensive formation, and that's where Honor is at "right now" (aRT) anyway. She's normally Eighth Fleet out at Trevor's star, and Tenth fleet which has both Terekhov and Oversteegen to sharpen Henke's tactical sword.

So I figure Andrea will do just fine when the time comes for her to not be Honor's near-peer in the tactical tank.