We recently took a DoD health survey that asked a bunch of questions about the lifestyles of military members. We were told it was voluntary, but most of us were made to take it anyway. The facilitator who was handing the booklets out said the survey was completely anonymous, so we should be as honest as possible. Oddly, as people were showing up, he would write their names down on a piece of paper and then hand them a book, each of which had a unique number on it. He said we didn’t have to answer any question we didn’t want to, so most of us skipped the questions about our weight, height, length of time in the service, zip code, etc…pretty much anything identifying. Yes, we’re that paranoid. As I was reading the questions, I imagined the headlines that might come out some time later in the NavyTimes. Things like “Commander’s ban alcohol citing health survey results” or “98% of Sailors want to hang themselves.” I do think this may be used to make some changes, so before that happens I’d like to give everyone a look at just what we had to answer, in case the results get a little skewed. Below is a Flash version of the document. If you can’t see it, you can download the PDF version here.
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That booklet never ended. it was like the pages you hadn’t answered yet were breeding creating even more pages of never ending questions. However i did figure who ever was “grading” these would get bored so I left them some interesting answers. “Are you depressed: no Do you find yourself having crying fits: 5-7 per week”
“How often are you sexualy active: Never had sex Ever had an STD: 10-12″
it’s the little things in life that bring me joy.
Posted 28 May 2008 at 11:57 am ¶“This just in…sailors are alcoholics….”
Posted 28 May 2008 at 11:04 pm ¶It always amazes me that as an organization we take issues that exist at basically no detriment and start micro managing them to the point where we now classify past behavior that was not once a problem, now make it one, and wonder why we can’t get these “programs” to work we put in place without having to resort to nazi-style tactics… Hmmm…. The same behavior we have historically been trying to fight as a military.
Posted 01 Jun 2008 at 4:43 pm ¶Hmm its funny all the drug questions that were in that survey. Yes i smoke marijuana 52 + times a week. What command sweep for drug, I didnt see that one coming. If everyone were to answer those questions half as honestly as they should, im sure there would be many command drug sweeps, many investigations about beatin children and wives, and quite possibly command sweeps for STD’s if thats even possible. That survey was a bunch of bullshit and i love the last question. The survey literally says something along the lines, if you are a male please stop here and do not read on, thank you for your time in this survey, or something like that. But if you read on the next question reads as a woman how stressed have you been in the last 12 months? Man thats not gender specific or does it sound degrading. As if Males dont get as stressed at work because they have a pair of cajones.
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 8:00 am ¶A major lifestyle survey of people in the Navy…and a little bit of health survey.
“Wow look, this 26 year old O-3 stationed at a shore command with the UIC of this command in particular stated that he would do drugs if there were no testing…hmmm…we migh want to profile this guy…”
“Oh and he drinks more than ten beers a week….hmmmmm might want to have the command’s DAPA give him a talking to…”
Not that I answered those questions as such–I left about 30% of it blank, but you’re right, the Navy is going to base policy on a survey that has only a “all or nothing” set of answers…
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 3:47 pm ¶I’m just ROTFL!!!
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