May 9, 2014 | Vol. 3 | Issue 6
DAILY DIGEST
COMMAND CLIMATE SPECIALIST The new face of equal opportunity
PSC Joseph O’Malley, right, speaks with PS3 Julia Barrios.
Story and photo by MCSN (SW) Victoria Ochoa
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s the Navy expands the equal opportunity advisor (EOA) program to focus on command climate, Nimitz welcomes a new EOA, or as it’s now called, the command climate specialist. “The equal opportunity program once known as EO has been renamed and repurposed to fit a wider spectrum of issues in the Navy related to command climate,” said Chief Machinist’s Mate Joshua Jackson, from Frankfort, Ind., one of the current Nimitz command climate specialists. “We’re the direct point of con-
tact for equal opportunity, discrimination and sexual harassment complaints.” As the new primary command climate specialist (CCS), Chief Personnel Specialist Joseph O’Malley from Princeton, Ky., is adamant about his passion for equal opportunity in the Navy. “Everyone is important from E-1 to O-10,” said O’Malley. “We should coexist, work together and respect one another.” The process to become a CCS requires a training period and a thorough evaluation of
a candidate to qualify, but anyone who was a prior EOA that had a 9515 NEC was renamed to CCS immediately after the change. “Everyone who was an EOA automatically became a CCS,” said Jackson. “To get the 9515 NEC we had to go to a threemonth school in Cocoa Beach, Fla. at the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) at Patrick Air Force Base.” Command climate is exactly what it sounds like. The Navy is made up of a large variety of people from different Continued on page 3