Take a look at the Advancement and Training page for two new links.  The first link takes you to a site where you can sign for Navy Leadership courses being taught at Operational Support Centers (Reserve Centers).  The courses are taught on two consecutive drill weekends plus two days of on line course work.  The second site is a site put together to help you get advanced.  For those of you who finished your BMR's years ago and don't want to read them again it has a good summary outline of the BMR's highlighting key points.

	The new RESFOR instruction requires that all SELRES preform physical training each day they drill.  So, starting in April we will be performing group physical training both Saturday and Sunday immediately after morning quarters.  On Saturday's we will preform unit supervised aerobic exercise. On Sunday's all hands will run the PRT. Muster will be in PT gear.  Be ready!!

With the change in responsibilities in the Reserve Center I decided to rearrange my web site slightly.  I am glad you were able to find your way here.  Please up date your links to point to one of the two new sites.  On the menu at left you will see my generic links and a link to the DESRON 14 page.  The DESRON page contains all the old unit specific links.

The middle of August I was on Annual Training in Jacksonville and had the opportunity to see the new CNO, Admiral Mullins.  A couple of notes from his talk that I felt were worth repeating.  1) He stressed a need to make sure our sailors and their families are ready to deploy.  2) He said the roll of the Navy is changing and the missions we will see in the future will be different than the mission of today.  What does this mean to us in the Navy Reserves?  If the fleet is deploying more you can bet they will draw on the Reserves more also.  With the wide variety of skill sets the Navy Reserves possess, who better to support new missions of the Navy.  Be ready to deploy!

Another item I noticed on annual training was all of the commands at Jacksonville were taking the new Physical Readiness Standards very seriously.  What does this mean to you?  I had many opportunities to visit with Chiefs of the various commands and everyone of them has increased their tempo of PT.  Most commands are doing command wide PT four or five times a week with only the duty section exempt.  They also are not doing the minimum, most start out with warm up calisthenics followed by a run of two to two and a half miles.  This means that when you go AT you can expect to do PT 6 to 8 times and run 15 to 20 miles.  Be ready!  Being in the Reserves does not exempt you from participating in PT with the unit you are attached to.

Captain Ryan sent me the link to the following web site.  It is well worth the time to view the video.  Marine Tribute