SAN DIEGO – Chief Petty Officer Gregory Ruth, a native of Cleveland, had a cousin that was in the Navy, and wanted to follow in their footsteps.
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Now, 11 years later, Ruth is stationed with the Navy Service Support Advanced Training Command (NSSATC) San Diego, a new training command tasked with improving fleet readiness.
“I consider it to have limitless possibilities,” said Ruth. “I can achieve anything I want to. There are so many resources and programs.”
Ruth, a 2007 graduate of South High School, is a logistics specialist at the training center located in San Diego.
“We teach four different types of relational supply," said Ruth. "It's a system used to order material and track financial obligations.”
Ruth credits success in the Navy to many of the lessons learned in Cleveland.
“I was taught to make sure you take care of yourself,” said Ruth. “It's important to remain humble.”
NSSATC was established in March 2019. It develops and delivers advanced education and training opportunities that build personal, professional, and service support competencies to achieve fleet readiness. Headquartered at Naval Air Station Oceana, Dam Neck Annex, Virginia, the command executes training at 10 globally dispersed learning sites with military and civilian instructors and staff personnel.
NSSATC is responsible for Advanced Administration courses, Advanced Logistics courses, Navy Instructor Training Course (NITC), Command Career Counselor (CCC), Command Managed Equal Opportunity (CMEO) Manager, Drug and Alcohol Program Advisor (DAPA), and Alcohol and Drug Abuse for Managers and Supervisors.
There are many reasons to be proud of naval service, and Ruth is most proud of being selected for chief petty officer.
“You always have that chief wherever you go,” said Ruth. “That's who I've always emulated and based my actions on. Now I get to take all that and be that person.”
A key element of the Navy the Nation needs is tied to the fact that America is a maritime nation, according to Navy officials, and that the nation’s prosperity is tied to the ability to operate freely on the world’s oceans. More than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water; 80 percent of the world’s population lives close to a coast; and 90 percent of all global trade by volume travels by sea.
“Our priorities center on people, capabilities and processes, and will be achieved by our focus on speed, value, results and partnerships,”said Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer. “Readiness, lethality and modernization are the requirements driving these priorities.”
“I consider it to have limitless possibilities,” said Ruth. “I can achieve anything I want to. There are so many resources and programs.”
Ruth, a 2007 graduate of South High School, is a logistics specialist at the training center located in San Diego.
“We teach four different types of relational supply," said Ruth. "It's a system used to order material and track financial obligations.”
Ruth credits success in the Navy to many of the lessons learned in Cleveland.
“I was taught to make sure you take care of yourself,” said Ruth. “It's important to remain humble.”
NSSATC was established in March 2019. It develops and delivers advanced education and training opportunities that build personal, professional, and service support competencies to achieve fleet readiness. Headquartered at Naval Air Station Oceana, Dam Neck Annex, Virginia, the command executes training at 10 globally dispersed learning sites with military and civilian instructors and staff personnel.
NSSATC is responsible for Advanced Administration courses, Advanced Logistics courses, Navy Instructor Training Course (NITC), Command Career Counselor (CCC), Command Managed Equal Opportunity (CMEO) Manager, Drug and Alcohol Program Advisor (DAPA), and Alcohol and Drug Abuse for Managers and Supervisors.
There are many reasons to be proud of naval service, and Ruth is most proud of being selected for chief petty officer.
“You always have that chief wherever you go,” said Ruth. “That's who I've always emulated and based my actions on. Now I get to take all that and be that person.”
A key element of the Navy the Nation needs is tied to the fact that America is a maritime nation, according to Navy officials, and that the nation’s prosperity is tied to the ability to operate freely on the world’s oceans. More than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water; 80 percent of the world’s population lives close to a coast; and 90 percent of all global trade by volume travels by sea.
“Our priorities center on people, capabilities and processes, and will be achieved by our focus on speed, value, results and partnerships,”said Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer. “Readiness, lethality and modernization are the requirements driving these priorities.”
As a member of one of the U.S. Navy’s most relied-upon assets, Ruth and other sailors and staff know they are part of a legacy that will last beyond their lifetimes, serving as a key part of the Navy the Nation needs.
“I feel like I'm representing the U.S., whether I'm visiting a foreign country or just out in town," said Ruth. "I'm representing the face of the Navy.”
“I feel like I'm representing the U.S., whether I'm visiting a foreign country or just out in town," said Ruth. "I'm representing the face of the Navy.”