| Rank | Name | Position |
 Petty Officer First Class |
James Penney | Engineer, Computer Data Systems |
| Personality Profile | ||
| Words to describe Penney are reserved, meticulous, and dependable. He is good at whatever he does. He can always be trusted, especially by his friends. He would never cheat or steal. Penney takes his energy from the inner world of thoughts. He prefers dealing with facts and making decisions on a logical basis. His life is flexible, demonstrating an interest in acquiring new information that leads to a practical understanding of the way the world works. He is quiet and detached, and adaptable. He is often good at solving organizational problems that need to be thought through. He is curious about how and why things work, and can seem impulsive, sometimes producing surprising ideas or doing something unpredictable. For Penney the driving force in his life is to understand how things and phenomena in the real world work so he can make the best and most effective use of them. He is a logical and realistic person, and he is a natural troubleshooter. When not actively solving a problem, he is a quiet and analytical observer of his environment, and he naturally looks for the underlying sense to any facts he has gathered. He often pursues variety and even excitement in his hands-on experiences. Although he does have a spontaneous, even playful side, what people often first encounter with him is his detached pragmatism. Penney goal is to provide explanations of how and why things happen. To this end, he brings structure and organization into the inner world of ideas and understanding. He analyzes things, formulating hypotheses and explanations of how they function, and gathers evidence to assess how true those explanations are. He produces mental models that replicate how particular aspects of the world works, and he tries to understand the full complexity of any situation. |
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