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Navy Leaders Unveil New Barge; Improve Quality of Services for Kearsarge Sailors
April 21, 2023 — "The opening of APL 70 represents a significant occasion for Kearsarge Sailors and the Norfolk Naval Shipyard," said Greene. "This new barge will provide Sailors with better living accommodations during planned maintenance availabilities and aligns with our Get Real, Get Better initiative. We are committed to enhancing the quality of life for our Sailors and are proud to deliver this new, state-of-the-art barge to the Kearsarge crew." MORE

Learning to Get Real and Get Better: A Conversation With Learning Leaders
January 30, 2023 — The CNO’s recent initiative of “Get Real, Get Better” (GRGB) touches on the importance of learning on several levels. Learning is difficult and often painful as it involves transformation and change, and is not just something that one can put on “like a new suit,” [...] The emphasis in GRGB on taking hard honest looks at our performance and to have the courage to take the steps to improve have resonated well with the recent iteration of our Naval Postgraduate School course... MORE

Get Real Get Better: A Message to Navy Leaders
October 21, 2022 — Secretary of the Navy Hon. Carlos Del Toro, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday, and leaders across the Navy discuss the Get Real Get Better call to action – a set of Navy-proven leadership and problem solving best practices that empower Navy personnel to achieve exceptional performance. MORE

NAVSUP WSS Holds Webcast With Panel of Experts
October 5, 2022 — NSS-Supply dovetails with the Navy's “Get Real, Get Better” (GRGB) initiative, first announced by the Chief of Naval Operations, Rear Adm. Michael Gilday in January 2022. “The performance to plan is kind of our get real engine. Let’s get real through close monitoring of our performance, measuring it and embracing the red. And then our NSS-Supply is our get better engine by going in and working tough problems in demand management, optimize organic repair, shape the industrial base, our working capital fund and increasing the velocity of our repairs across the system. And there’s more to come,” said [Rear Adm. Peter] Stamatopoulos. MORE