Seabees Use LaDRs for Career Success
Navy NewsStand
Story Number: NNS090715-04
Release Date: 7/15/2009 4:57:00 AM
By Nikki Noah, Naval Education and Training Command Public Affairs
PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) -- The Learning and Development Roadmap (LaDR) for engineering aides (EA) is now available to Seabees on Navy Knowledge Online (NKO).
LaDR supports Sailors in the EA rating and is the latest addition in the construction career field section located under Career Management on NKO. Other rating LaDRs available include builder, construction electrician and construction mechanic.
As part of the Enlisted Learning and Development Strategy, LaDRs are a personal tool Sailors can use to progress from recruit to master chief petty officer by road-mapping their entire career.
"This has never been done to the detail and with the energy we are seeing today, and it really takes the guess work out of career progression for our young Seabees," said Master Chief Equipmentman Gregory Serkasevich, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3 Alfa Company chief.
The roadmaps are developed and updated by Naval Education and Training Command learning centers which specialize in training for each of the ratings or career fields.
"For the Seabees, the staff at the Center for Seabees and Facilities Engineering (CSFE), Port Hueneme, Calif., works with fleet experts on skill requirements as well as manpower and billet specialists from the community managers at the Bureau of Naval Personnel," said CSFE Command Master John Mulholland.
"We've worked hard to ensure the latest information for career progression and success is included in the roadmaps. They not only provide the Sailor with hard and fast requirements but also a general career map so Sailors can pick and choose opportunities after consulting with their chiefs at career development boards.
"We recognized long ago that the road to master chief, or whatever your ambition might be, is unique to each person. If we lined up seventy Seabee master chiefs, each would have a slightly different roadmap. Additionally, this provides the Sailor with some potential on-ramp and off-ramp opportunities incorporating sea-shore flow, advanced education vouchers and certifications and qualifications along the way relevant to the civilian sector."
LaDRs are being developed for each of the 82 enlisted ratings in the Navy, and more than 30 LaDRs are currently available. The goal is to have all the enlisted LaDRs completed by April 2010.
"Course numbers and titles, rate training manuals, suggested reading, duty stations, job assignments and special programs are all listed in the LaDR," said Serkasevich.
LaDRs can be referred to and filled out as Sailors progress throughout their careers. For additional guidance, a Sailor may seek the mentorship of senior enlisted leadership.
"My responsibility as a mentor is to be available to my Seabees, providing guidance on an entire host of things, not just Navy matters," said Serkasevich.
One primary benefit of LaDRs is the centralization of all learning and development initiatives. LaDR serves as an umbrella to collect all necessary requirements into one cohesive document.
"The LaDR is an extremely effective tool in that it takes the guess work out of advancement, job assignments and programs for our Seabees," said Serkasevich. "It provides a clear path for them to advance to master chief or obtain a commission.
"Sailors are the Navy's best asset," said Serkasevich.
"The LaDR is another tool the Navy provides to assist Sailors. It is a real eye opener to my Seabees when they see that this information exists with such detail."
The Navy provides the LaDR as a complete set of information vital to a Sailor advancing in their career, but it is the Sailor's responsibility to use the LaDR to its full potential.
"The LaDR helps a Sailor achieve their personal and professional goals by outlining specifically what a Seabee needs to complete in order to be successful," said Serkasevich.
As the builders of the Navy, Seabees develop a wide variety of job skill sets.
"Seabees train and perform in their prescribed rating as well as basic combat and defensive skills in order to protect themselves and what they build," said Serkasevich. "We have specialty organizations which perform disaster recovery missions, bridge erection, chemical biological radiological detection and decontamination, just to name a few. Seabees also provide humanitarian assistance and disaster recovery."
With so many different skills required to be a Seabee, Serkasevich says the LaDR is an imperative tool for Seabees to accomplish their unique Navy mission.
"Everything is all laid out in one spot with tremendous detail; all the Seabee has to do is engage it," said Serkasevich. "I'm not just trying to build a good Sailor, I'm also trying to build a good citizen."
For more information on LaDRs, visit https://wwwa.nko.navy.mil.
For more news from Naval Education and Training Command, visit www.navy.mil/local/cnet/.
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