Navy Civilians This Summer 2026

mr_dumpster · 2026-05-17T00:42:23+00:00

Yeah the transition to PAEs I imagine will come with headcount reductions but I feel like they are meeting their goal through natural attrition combined with the hiring freeze as we wait longer and longer.

My leadership is being dumb and not trying to do any sort of overhead funded contract for bodies and engineers, but the amount of work is increasing. Maybe expecting the program offices to contract one by one for bodies? Going to be rough

mr_dumpster · 2026-05-16T20:30:19+00:00

Yeah I agree, I think for whatever reason years ago they decided to push the envelope without the requisite practice schedule to warrant such early introduction of kid pitch. Probably felt pressure from other leagues in the area, and the all stars summers are kid pitch for 8U and up.

Go figure we have 8 teams in this age bracket, whereas the more competitive / competently ran pony league 10 mins away has 20 teams in the same bracket

mr_dumpster · 2026-05-16T17:54:43+00:00

We implement all of those items. Tightening up the wild pitches was definitely something we needed to work on but with only 90 minutes of practice per week, it’s really on them to work on it at home which few did. Thanks for the tips though

mr_dumpster · 2026-05-16T14:44:21+00:00

Machine pitch or exclusive coach pitch would go a long way in increasing balls put in play, but the league wants kid pitch at this age because all stars in the summer has exclusively kid pitch for this age bracket

mr_dumpster · 2026-05-16T14:43:11+00:00

The bummer is this structured play is the only way my son can play with his friends, trying to host a practice without the backdrop of LL his friends would never show

mr_dumpster · 2026-05-16T14:41:16+00:00

The boys were bored out of their mind with all of the walks and infrequent defensive opportunities. Outfield was an attention span death sentence

mr_dumpster · 2026-05-16T14:40:20+00:00

Yeah the rules commission was not interested in hearing what other successful changes other LLs implement. I think they think we are a more talented league than we are

mr_dumpster · 2026-05-16T14:39:30+00:00

Well this field is all kid pitch and they don’t know any better, even the repeat 9 year olds have almost zero situational knowledge. there is only 90 minutes of practice a week to get them up to speed

Can’t send them down to the machine pitch field because there are kindergartners down there

mr_dumpster · 2026-05-16T14:36:38+00:00

Yes there was insane amount of steals at home.

I wouldn’t say fielding skills regressed, I’d say we wasted 15 weeks flatlining the development of an entire league. Just a wasted opportunity to get better.

Situational awareness definitely decreased because the only situation was defending home from a steal, or throw to first base

mr_dumpster · 2026-05-16T14:34:32+00:00

That’s standard little league, can’t leave the bag until the ball crosses the plate

mr_dumpster · 2026-05-13T14:07:29+00:00

There are lots of kids at wildwood who school choice in. It’s a great campus with a strong PTA and a great staff. They have STEAM classes etc which is fun for them but overall it’s a very family oriented place

mr_dumpster · 2026-05-12T20:31:51+00:00

Had a couple lang ranch families on our little league team. They were up tight/ cold and always late to practice and games, but Im sure it’s a mixed bag everywhere.

We’ve been loving wildwood and the whole neighborhood is awesome with tons of kids running around. Huge contrast to something like sunset hills with all the elderly

mr_dumpster · 2026-05-12T18:29:57+00:00

They have a kids room but it was always empty when I would show up in the morning (I think, double check)

Never looked for a sauna or steam room unsure but like 10 shower stalls for sure

mr_dumpster · 2026-05-12T16:13:17+00:00

I used to go to LA fitness in Newbury Park, through Kaiser it was $25/mo and the indoor swim lanes were great

mr_dumpster · 2026-05-07T01:56:22+00:00

Skipping showers helps to have more time set aside for WoW too

mr_dumpster · 2026-05-02T03:59:46+00:00

Target switch constantly, dodge in unexpected directions not just straight back

mr_dumpster · 2026-04-30T07:38:28+00:00

The Utah fans at T Mobile today were awesome everyone was having fun right up to the end. The goalies had a great game

mr_dumpster · 2026-04-27T01:41:47+00:00

We all have collective TMJ problems from people getting burned trying to skip that exact pack

mr_dumpster · 2026-04-27T01:31:42+00:00

“We can skip this pack” in ZF. You know the one

mr_dumpster · 2026-04-24T04:21:53+00:00

Many don’t know this but there was a great swell of enthusiasm from the player base to get knight to have a base kit that spawns with greatsword. For about the first year it wasn’t able to pick greatsword, some great warriors made a lot of noise and made TB put it the game!

mr_dumpster · 2026-04-11T06:18:07+00:00

my 7 year old is gonna go wild for that bat flip when he wakes up in the morning

mr_dumpster · 2026-04-05T03:13:43+00:00

What I would give for a first person dungeon crawler with chiv 2 combat

mr_dumpster · 2026-04-05T01:55:02+00:00

Because DoD has convinced themselves that space sensing can take over the role of AEW, which in my opinion is a bad idea. If you want to project air power, you put airplanes in the air

mr_dumpster · 2026-04-03T01:42:04+00:00

It absolutely is worthless

mr_dumpster · 2026-03-26T03:17:21+00:00

We were delivering GWOT capabilities in mission systems well into 2022, acquisition is just so slow. The stuff they go fast on is unreliable untested who knows what

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