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Songs of Babylon

If you hear anything at all, it’s in your head.

  • Fiction
    • The Noon to Forever (Every Day Fiction)
    • Shadows of the Night (The J.J. Outre Review)
    • Iraq Poem
    • Johnny Rocket Lives Forever on the Moon
    • Dammit, Ensign!
  • Essays
    • Resigning from the Navy
    • Seniority and Promotions to Lieutenant
    • Camp Speicher Massacre
    • The Crozier Affair
    • Tell Me I Suck
    • A Different Tack: Shipboard Mishaps and PTSD
    • The Three-Vessel Problem
    • Retrospective
    • They Fought for Their Rights
    • Retrospective (2 of… ?)
    • Navy Officer Accessions, SARBs, and the Nuke Draft
    • Retrospective 3
    • Five Reads of The Caine Mutiny
  • Flash Posts
    • FP1 – Integrity: A Sea Non-Story
    • FP2 – Still Valley
    • FP3 – The Lingering Dread of TDRL
    • FP4 – Looking Down from the Bridge
    • FP5 – When We Move On
    • FP6 – Reactions to a First Case
    • FP7 – Cowardice in Afghanistan
    • FP8 – Military Transition and Mental Health
    • FP9 – The Military’s Free Expression Problem
    • FP10 – Farewell, National Defense Service Medal
    • FP11 – Review: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023)
    • FP12 – Two Eclipses
    • FP13 – Watch Team Remus
    • FP14 – On Bertolt Brecht’s “The Interrogation of the Good”

Tag Archives: LOC

Tell Me I Suck

The only thing worse than finding out from your boss that you suck, is finding out that you’re not even worth the trouble of telling.

Posted bySongs of BabylonJuly 7, 2020April 8, 2025Posted inBlog Posts, Essays, NavyTags:counseling, LOC, LOI, Navy, NPLOC, Surface Warfare Officer, SWO3 Comments on Tell Me I Suck
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