Flag Orders: Sea Org Uniform Series

SEA ORGANIZATION

ABLE BODIED SEAMEN

Apparently we are running out of Able Sound the alarms! Bodied Seamen ! ' Yet we are now numbered in the thousands. We still have all our S.O. ergs. And our impingement on this planet is greater than ever before. So where did the AB's go?

They went to a deadly sector of the universe known for destroying the hopes of man, where all that wanders is seldom seen again, except to come crashing into man's course of advancement, sometimes stopping him so effectively that he doesn't know he was stopped, he doesn't even remember he was going anywhere. They went to the Black Hole of Lost Tech.

"But wait, " you say, "we have thousands of officers and petty officers, good ones, it's just that we don't have many Able Bodied Seamen."

Oh, yeah? Well let's get back on course and avoid the Black Hole with this sailing plan correction:

THERE IS NO ROUTE INTO THE SEA ORG OTHER THAN SEA ORG BASIC TRAINING AS A FIRST STEP.

WHEN ONE FINISHES HIS SEA ORG BASIC TRAINING, HE IS AWARDED THE RATING OF ABLE BODIED SEAMAN. (This is the only rating or rank in the Sea Org not granted by OSB. One earns an AB Seaman rating by successful completion of course checksheets on the Sea Org Basic Training program.)

AFTER ONE GRADUATES HIS SEA ORG BASIC TRAINING AND IS AN ABLE BODIED SEAMAN, HE IS THEN POSTED IN A SEA ORG SHIP, ORG OR UNIT.

AFTER ONE IS AN ABLE BODIED SEAMAN, HE IS ELIGIBLE FOR RATING OR RANK PROMOTION.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN OFFICER OR PETTY OFFICER WHO IS NOT ALSO AN ABLE BODIED SEAMAN

THE ABOVE COURSE IS NEVER DEVIATED FROM.

So we have some catching up to do.

Lack of stationships at the moment is no excuse for no Able Bodied Seaman program. The Welcome to the Sea Org tapes tell us quite clearly the principles of Sea Org existence, confront, ability, purpose, making it go right, seamanship and others.

While stationships will facilitate such study and application, these Sea Org principles can still be learned and applied, including the toughness and do-it-right-the-first-time aspects of seamanship.

Learning Sea Org tech at a land base would require a little more cleverness. So get a little more clever.

The above is ancient, hard-won experience.

Any time the line of :

1. New recruit
2. Swamper (on S.O. Basic Training, not yet an AB)
3. Able Bodied Seaman
4. Petty Officer
5. Officer

has been violated, we have sooner or later run into trouble.

Int Officer's Council should plan how to move the existing scene towards the ideal and standard scene as above. The way Sea Org Basic Training is currently being done obviously needs overhaul as ABs are not being made, so Int Officer's Council Perhaps a grace period in which all current should handle this. officers and petty officers could complete their S.O. Basic Training while on post, without suffering demotion, could be allowed.

There is no criticism implied to those who have never done their AB. But just like you wouldn't want to omit a Grade in your auditing, you similarly should not omit a level in your training.

You can easily make it up. But make it up you must. The fact is that the Sea Org is the Sea Org for a reason. It is not It is not just a yacht club. It is not just another org. anybody's hobby.

The Sea Org is the group three feet behind the head of the only current effort anywhere to restore natural abilities to beings.

Sea Org training on this planet is itself a gradient step. Don't miss out on any part of it.

Without basics, you can too easily get lost in a Black Hole.

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