After experiencing the first Supply Department LTT, to say I was not looking forward to a second one would be an understatement. I had spent the last few months rebuilding from the first and still had some issues that needed corrections. It was going to take the supply chiefs all of a few minutes to find those issues.
Being underway during the inspection was something new. I had a few other priorities to contend with. Keeping my Disbursing Office hours and making sure all the other services continued to run as scheduled were causing me headaches. These inspections ended up taking on a little bit different tone than I was expecting though.
Most of my records had been examined during the first LTT, so the focus was on training my new records keeper and interacting with the rest of the division. My sailors are extremely hard workers but we all lack for time to train properly. I really appreciated their willingness to pass on some of their knowledge.
They still did an out brief with the captain that highlighted some of the sales division weaknesses. This time the list was much smaller, which was not altogether bad news. I was looking forward to making the necessary corrections with my records keeper. I ended up feeling a little more comfortable with the current status of my division. There will be one more LTT coming before the SMC. So I have one more practice inspection before the real thing. As long as I keep improving, there should not be any problems.
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