Sailor 360 Onboard Sig

By MC2 Josh Cote, NAS Sigonella Public Affairs

Sailor 360 is an umbrella term for innovative, creative, command-developed leadership programs modeled after previous programs such as CPO 365 Phase 1 and scenario-based studies like Chief’s Mess Training. It was rolled out after a study determined that competency and job-specific knowledge in young Sailors was satisfactory, but that their leadership training was lacking.

Since early 2019, Sailor 360 has been an active program here onboard Naval Air Station Sigonella. The program was off to a strong start, but COVID-19 slowed things down for most of 2020. In the past few months, Sailor 360 has been ramping back up and providing opportunities across the installation.

NAS Sigonella’s version of Sailor 360 is open to any U.S service member of any rank and any service branch. The program is—quite literally—open to all U.S. forces here in Sigonella.

One of the opportunities Sailor 360 offers is a monthly training event. The training will touch on a number of different topics in order to help service members advance in their careers. Topics range from evaluation writing, working with new programs and websites like MyNavy Assignment, and enlisted-to-officer mentorship to name a few.

Along with training, Sailor 360 also sponsors community relations events to include cleaning and painting buildings, working in soup kitchens, and interacting with children at schools to help teach English.

Twice a month, Sailor 360 will also host physical training (PT) events. These events focus on the Navy’s culture of excellence, core theme of toughness and signature disciplined behavior. Sailor 360 aims to make these sessions both beneficial and fun, hosting occasional PT competitions such as plankoffs or running the distance equal to Mt. Etna.

While Sailor 360 is not able to host fundraiser events for themselves, they are more than willing to be involved and help other associations with their own events. They work with associations to promote involvement within the events that Sailor 360 host. This year, Sailor 360 hosted the first ever NAS Sigonella Memorial Day Run, which involved keeping three torches dedicated to our fallen Sailors moving for 12 hours straight. While inclement weather cut the run short, next year they hope to increase the number of participants and organizations while keeping the torches moving for a full 24 hours.

If you would like to get involved with Sailor 360 or just want to know more about upcoming events, feel free to join the Facebook group at NAS Sigonella Sailor 360. All dates for trainings and other events will be posted there and in the NASSIG all hands emails.