Posted by Commodore Drudoc Andone (Commanding Officer) in Side Sim - Ready Room - XO Meeting
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Continuing again after another pause, “..As you may know the Ark Angel contains several civilian crew, and families, and children. I would encourage you to meet with them informally when you can, I have found the children are less likely to act up if they meet you one on one to see you are not ‘scary’. In addition all of the civilians and care takers for the children are well trained to report to civilian shelters at the chime of yellow alert, the ship’s schools and nurseries are also equally equipped as safe areas. If you are not familiar with this I would suggest you read up on it, and any questions of them let me know. In either case if any disciplinary or security breaches with them occur you, myself and one of our ship’s counseling staff will be involved. Any questions so far?” she asked.

Drudoc Andone CO

Ciaran was absorbing as much information as he was able to. Drudoc had a ton of experience and information to provide. He then responded to the commodore, “I do not have any questions as of yet. I am taking some notes, which I am assuming you do not mind. I was unaware of all the civilian crew on the Ark Angel so this will be a little different for me but I will work through it. I am looking forward to getting to know as many people as I can to be the best executive officer I can.” Ciaran then continued to listen and take notes based on what the commodore was stating. He did not want to miss anything or forget anything. He believed it was important to be on the same page as the commanding officer, especially now Ciaran was the executive officer.

Lt. Cmdr. Donoghuei Executive Officer

Drudoc nodded, “..Take all the notes you wish Exec. I would encourage you to meet informally with the civilians and crew in general in our upcoming post mission celebrations. It’s a bit of a tradition we’ve established over past 13 some years since I took command. Usually it will have a theme we use for those interesting in participating to educate the children who then judge who best does the theme to get awarded a prize they make..” she said.

”..Any other questions then for me?” She asked.

Drudoc Andone CO

Ciaran was aware of the civilians on the ship but had not realized it was such a high number of them. He knew the advice from the commodore was sound and he would follow it. He then responded with, “It will take some time to meet all the civilians but I will work on doing that. I also want to start with meeting with all the department heads, if that is alright with you. I like to know who I am working with as a executive officer to help allow everyone to know they can talk to me if they need something. I do not want to come across as stand-offish. At this time, I do not have any additional questions.” Ciaran was excited about getting started but knew this would be time consuming but he was up for it. He waited to see if the commodore had anything else and Ciaran took a sip of his water and then took a deep breath.

Lt. Cmdr. Donoghuei
Executive Officer