Table of Contents

• Flag Sends
• Comings & Goings
• October Reports
• Fleet Staff Needed
• Upcoming Events
• What Makes A Fleet Event?
• Marksmanship Update
• September Honors – Awards
• September Honors – Promotions
• Fleet Contacts
• Order of Battle
• Echelon Command Contacts

Flag Sends

In The Royal Manticoran Navy, we like leaders.

We do. Really. We offer many opportunities to take an active leadership role in the group, and we are usually willing to create roles if there is a desire or need. We call these echelons, and they are every size of grouping between the ship and the fleet.

And we love these things. While a real military may form and dissolve divisions and squadrons as needed, we tend to make them more permanent. And that is a good thing. It gives not only structure to the fleet, but gives the local chapter a support structure that is where they are.

I am south of Chicago – nearly 6 hours drive from Minneapolis – so I can’t see what a chapter might need there. I am equally far from our Ohio and Kentucky chapters, with the same lack of immediate knowledge of issues there. Which makes the echelon COs in those places vital to the health of the local chapters.

And we will form as many of these echelons as possible, to give not only the support of others in the area, but to encourage people to step up and be leaders.

And, surprisingly, the role of leader above the chapter level is not harder than being a chapter CO…quite the opposite, actually.

It’s easier.

See, the local chapter is the most important unit we have in TRMN. Full stop. The ship is the driver of activities, the recruitment base, the lifeblood of the organization.

And as an echelon CO (or Fleet CO), the job is not to run the ships under your command, but to enable the success of the ships under your command.

This means encouraging them, being there for them, supporting their actions and decisions, encouraging their growth and development, and then backing them up when needed.

It’s a lot of getting out of the way of the ship’s success.

I encourage you all to look into forming into echelons whenever possible. The chance to belong to a group where you are is part of why we all joined TRMN in the first place.

And you might surprise yourself, and discover a talent or passion you might not have found otherwise.

Comings & Goings

Congratulations are extended to Captain (JG) Paladin Meyer and Commander Richard Sams on their promotions and appointment as Commanding and Executive Officer, HMS Merlin.

Thank you to Captain (SG) Danielle Erikson for your excellent service as the outgoing CO.

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Congratulations are extended to Lieutenant Commander Ziggy Thompson on her promotion and appointment as Commanding Officer, HMS Javelin. Lieutenant Commander Thomas Erikson will be remaining in service as the Executive Officer.

Thank you to Lieutenant Commander Thomas Erikson for your excellent service as the outgoing CO.

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Effective as of 0001 Hours on 04 September 2019, it is my pleasure and privilege to announce the re-commissioning of HMS Samurai (CL-356). This is a Valiant-class Light Cruiser and is assigned to the Second Fleet.

The following personnel are hereby transferred and permanently assigned to HMS Samurai (CL-356):

• LTSG Jeff Smith (assigned as CO)
• CPO Stephen Miller (assigned as XO)
• S3C Greg Waddell (assigned as Bosun)
• S1C Jerome Udongo
• S1C Jason Greene
• S2C Randy Smith
• S3C Stephen Beals
• S3C Gabriel Cornelius
• S3C Seth Cornelius
• S3C Matthew Barkow
• S3C Brandon Berryhill
• S3C John Gerschoffer
• S3C William Cornelius Jr.
• S3C Jericho Cornelius
• PVT Richard Krouser
• PVT Steven Thompson

The following civilians are hereby transferred and permanently assigned to HMS Samurai, (CL-356):

• C-1 Gordon Snyder

Based upon the requirements of the service the following brevets are approved:

• Jeff Smith to COMMANDER, RMN
• Stephen Miller to LIEUTENANT COMMANDER, RMN
• Greg Waddell to CHIEF PETTY OFFICER, RMN

Subsequent to this commissioning, HLMAC Faraway Quest (LAC-031) shall be transferred to the Active Fleet Reserves, following inspection and any repairs deemed necessary. This vessel shall be made available for recommissioning at a later date.

In Service to Her Majesty, the Sovereign Queen of the Star Kingdom of Manticore, Elizabeth III,

Christopher Thompson, GCE, MC, OC, KR, SC, NS

Rear Admiral of the Red, RMN

Third Space Lord, Bureau of Ships

The Right Honorable Baron Calabasas

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Congratulations and welcome to Master-at-Arms 2nd Class John Chambers, HMS Gryphon, the new SIA Technical Specialties College Communications Department, Data Systems Instructor and promoted to Master at Arms Mate 2nd Class(E-5) effective 28 August 2019.

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Welcome to the new 2nd Fleet Flag Lieutenant, Lieutenant (JG) Jim McCoy, HMS Ajax!

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Congratulations to Captain Joshua Dadd on his assignment as Regimental Sergeant Major, London Point Regiment.

Captain Dadd has voluntarily relinquished his commission as an officer in the RMMC, and will be reduced in rank to Regimental Sergeant Major (E-10).

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We are sad to report the decommissioning of HMS Peregrine (DD-1291). All personnel have been reassigned to HMSS Greenwich and SMRS

Hohenzollern pending future assignment. Thank you to the command team for their service.