Given a choice, I prefer making a difference to making noise. Time for some of you to stop talking (noise making) and to start making a difference.
Get busy. People are waiting.
Noise versus difference
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Musings, leadership tidbits and quotes posted by a retired Navy Captain (really just a high performing 2nd Class Petty Officer) who hung up his uniform a bit too early. He still wears his Navy service on his sleeve. He needs to get over that. "ADVANCE WARNING – NO ORIGINAL THOUGHT!" A "self-appointed" lead EVANGELIST for the "cryptologic community". Keeping CRYPTOLOGY alive-one day and Sailor at a time. 2019 is 84th Anniversary of the Naval Security Group.
I Like The Cut of His Jib 
It's a blog. Blogs are noise makers.
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Fortunately, Ensign, this blog is a difference maker – quietly.
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We commenters are the noise.
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We commenters are the noise.
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Signal-to-noise ratio is sometimes used informally to refer to the ratio of useful information to false or irrelevant data in a conversation or exchange.Being a crypie I just had to throw this out there!
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Captain Lambert,A good post, but unfortunately there are many of us who are unable to distinguish between making a difference and making noise. I have to include myself in that group because I am no different in many ways than the average self absorbed individual. But I would like to think that for the last 20 years of a naval career I kept my Shipmates best interest in mind. I still correspond with a number of those Shipmates even though it has been more than 32 years since I retired from the Navy. After all this time a number of these good folks often remind me that I made a difference in their lives, what else could an old Sailor ask for?Very Respectfully,Navyman834
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1170 ENS – Getting qualified is the difference. Noise is posting on blogs instead of getting qualified.
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It's all about balance…
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