OCS Update – Fall 2025

Greetings, Bravo Fleet! OCS remains busy as always, a testament to the activity of you, our members. Since the start of the year, we have processed an enormous 12,818 writing ribbons and a gargantuan 25,661 gaming ribbons. And we still have a month and a half left, including the remaining five weeks of our current […]

2025 Medals of Commendation

Greetings Bravo Fleet! Today is the 104th anniversary of Gene Roddenberry’s birth.  Every year on this date, August 19, we celebrate the date of Gene’s birth and our members’ contributions to their task forces and the wider Bravo Fleet community over the past year by awarding the Starfleet Medal of Commendation. The award citation reads: […]

OCS Update – March 2025

Greetings Bravo Fleet! Just a quick announcement from the Office of the Chief of Staff to update you all on a few things. OCS Policy  Bravo Fleet has come a long way since April 2020. With that in mind, Vince asked me to conduct a review of OCS policy to make sure it reflected the […]

OCS Recruitment Update

Greetings Bravo Fleet! A few weeks ago I opened up applications for three OCS staffers to join me and I’m pleased to come to you today and announce the three successful candidates. Before I get to that, I’d like to take a moment and say that I was blown away by the response and thank […]

2024 Medals of Commendation

Greetings Bravo Fleet! I come to you once more on this date, August 19, to honour the members of our community and the contributions they’ve made to their task forces and the wider Bravo Fleet over the past 12 months. Why August 19? It’s quite simple; Gene Roddenberry was born on August 19, 1921 and […]

OCS Recruitment

Greetings Bravo Fleet! The Office of the Chief of Staff is the department with the most extensive reach across all the activities offered by Bravo Fleet. Regulating competitions, checking and processing the auto-generated activity ribbons, and reviewing merit award and promotion nominations are just some of the daily tasks undertaken by OCS staff.  For the […]

OCS Update: Competitions and Transfer Pause

Greetings Bravo Fleet! As you will have seen from the BFCO’s recent announcement, the next Fleet Action is just a few short weeks away. As always, before the fun begins, a little OCS housekeeping needs to be done. First, we’ll be putting a pause on member-run competitions during the Fleet Action. Any member-run competitions should […]

OCS Recruitment Update

Greetings Bravo Fleet, Firstly I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who took the time to fill out the OCS staff application. It’s terrific to see that members are not only eager to participate in the activities we offer, but also contribute to the smooth running of Bravo Fleet. However, there are only […]

OCS is Recruiting!

Greetings Bravo Fleet! The Office of the Chief of Staff is the department with the most extensive reach across all the activities offered by Bravo Fleet. Regulating competitions, checking and processing the auto-generated activity ribbons, and reviewing merit award and promotion nominations are just some of the daily tasks undertaken by OCS staff.  For the […]

2023 Medals of Commendation

Greetings Bravo Fleet! I come before you once more on this particular date to honour the contributions of members of our community over the past twelve months. Some of you may well be asking what’s so special about August 19 and the answer is simple; it was the date Gene Roddenberry was born in 1921. […]

2022 OCS Review

Greetings Bravo Fleet! Since moving to our current model on April 2020, the ranks and criteria for promotion have remained largely unchanged. Having lived with this model for around two and a half years, we decided now was the perfect time to review our ranks and promotion criteria with a view to potentially recalibrating them. […]

2022 Medals of Commendation

Greetings Bravo Fleet! August 19th is a special date in the Trek calendar; today would have been Gene Roddenberry’s 101st birthday. It’s on this day every year that we award the Starfleet Medal of Commendation and as Chief of Staff, it’s my honour to announce this year’s worthy recipients. For those of you unfamiliar with […]