Reflection On Professional Counseling

I wanted to bring to your attention my personal thoughts and feelings on the counseling I received from you back in February, no response is necessary, please do not take this in any way to be condescending or argumentative I don 't have the benefit of intonation in the text. I have just been extremely frustrated and disappointed and wanted to share with you my perspective.

Since my arrival over a year ago, I have strived to treat everyone with dignity and respect, identify and fix problems (such as students 2nd signing Danger Tags), be a stalwart proponent for procedural compliance, SSOPP 's, Sailors, programs and carry out your orders and vision. This is my third tour with the CSCS, hence, I have a good foundation on how Navy

The verbal counseling I received on the 16th of February left me very confused and perplexed as it was not clear to me what negative/poor performance or grievance against me resulted in the counseling (you did mention to me I was called out in the Climate Survey which occurred back in August of 2017, I was not aware of this till our meeting in February of 2018, of which no specifics were given to me) . I have excelled at every assignment I have had in the Navy, and have received professional counseling for shortcomings (like everyone else) in previous assignments for minor things, however, after our meeting, I felt like I had been fired and was a complete failure and still do to some extent as no specifics were given to me. You mentioned during the meeting the ET schoolhouse has a negative reputation from incidents at the schoolhouse, however, the incidents such as drug use and the SPS-49 student shock were not on my watch, and only significant issue since my arrival over a year ago was a DUI by a staff member. Every inspection or outside program review that I know of since my arrival has passed with nothing but outstanding

Which was(how I interpreted it at least), I am to let Sailors fail (in the execution of their duties and program management), put one LT in charge of the other, only interact with LT Sanders and ETCS Armstrong and the only thing I should be doing is working with Troy Stevens on the building renovation project or other big picture items. This then prevents my engagement, oversight, and application of my years of experience in identifying and fixing problems in the schoolhouse nor can I provide feedback to subordinate when something is amiss or meet with all the Chief 's on a weekly basis like I have been to discuss departmental matters and prevent issues (the latter is what I am particularly good at). Additionally, I feel a great obligation as a Naval Officer to correct/report an issue if I see an issue and in the meeting you directed me to do