About Return to Home Port™

‘Return To Home Port' or 'RTHP' is part of US Navy and Marine Corps vernacular. It is the date when a unit is scheduled to come back to the main base - or home port - after an extended period of operations. While RTHP is a Naval term, all military-connected people understand the concept that the individual service member never operates alone - all are part of a unit - and that this unit must plan and train extensively as a team both to deploy forward to operate and return home together after a mission 'well done'. Before this unit deploys, there is an extensive level of strategy, planning, training and work collectively as a team to synthesize the unit’s programs, processes and people. The best organizations empower team members to achieve their professional task at hand, thereby helping the team succeed. Through communication, coordination, action and accountability, a unit will operate efficiently and effectively, thereby achieving peak performance as a unit and as individuals. The RTHP concept translates well to the civilian world - there is a level of collective professional effort to achieve success as an organization, with the fundamental building blocks of individual effort and development at the core of this collective success.