Because with a BA in teaching and a 85 IQ, you too could be a Naval officer. No other requirements.
And to ask ask whether it needs to return to merit-based recruiting and promotion. You know, that racist and sexist way it used to be done.
“———— the Navy believes it needs to examine whether there may be institutional problems behind the deadly collisions.”
Ya think?
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it would be an excellent time to test a nuke if I were N Korea....but they could take out a carrier with surprising ease.
END SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT IN THE MILITARY
There should be no such thing as affirmative action in the military. Would you want a heart surgeon operating on you that had a ‘D’ average? Or saving your country and running multi-billion dollar fleets?
Was it another woman driving?
“operational pause”
I thought that was called “standing down.”
Okay, maybe I missed the new euphemism.
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You have obviously never tried to become a naval officer. 85% of the officers come from the fleet.
Has this type of “pause” happened before?
I can’t recall a time, in my lifetime....but, I certainly may have missed it.
Kind of like the sun today.
Prayers for the missing sailors and their frightened loved ones, especially the wives and children residing in Yokosuka. They are far away from their own families. The chapel, other command families, and neighbors can't really replace the comfort of a natural support system.
Note to the US Navy :
A COLLISION AT SEA COULD RUIN YOUR DAY !!! please make a note .
Maybe the Navy can grab a number of sixteen year olds who just got their driver’s license. As they have proved they can navigate an auto that costs a few thousand dollars in a comparatively more dense environment, they can safely navigate a destroyer that cost millions.
“”Richardson wants to ensure there aren’t bigger problems in the fleet that may be masked by the high pace of operations there and budget uncertainties, according to a Navy official””
We already have an earful of ‘we need more money’ coming from the failed government run schools.
I hope Mattis is keeping Richardson up late at night. Imagine the former 4*Gen Mattis’s response if a MC armored brigade drove a couple of Bradleys over a well-mapped cliff in broad daylight destroying the vehicles and killing the marines on board. Your f(* GPS was jammed or your s$(# for brains was jammed?
At the time (Late ‘60s) I stood deck watches and got to JOOD then OOD, before going to JOOD (Junior Office Of the Deck) we had to have 30 hours (if I remember)observation on the Bridge. We also had a workbook the size on a phone book which had to be completed with a min grade of 85.You had to show proficiency of navigation, meteorology,radar navigation ,on & on. then you were qualified to be come the OOD’s gopher. once three Watch standing OOD’s signed you off you were qualified to “Take the Con”. (Senior enlisted Seaman on the bridge watched you like a hawk)
My point is this, you had 8-12 people on Bridge watch, another 20 or so in Combat Info Center, when transiting a shipping lane or harbor approaches we fired up the short vrange Radar just off the Bridge.
We ran the ship not much difference then what was don in WWII.
Have we designed these new ship with so much automation and electronic gizzmos like GPS,reduction if crews,etc that we have lost the old Watch Standing standards
It is scientifically impossible that the person McCain’s health problems could be in any way related to the ship’s problems.
Such events are what we call “coincidence”.
Names are just names and mean nothing, right?
But—could everyone be wrong about this?
Check out Arthur Koestler’s classic “The Roots of Coincidence”.
“Navy to Pause Operations, Review Collisions, With 10 Missing”
No big mystery here. This is what you get when you don’t get the best and succumb to political correctness, ie. affirmative action, transgenders, gays, women etc. God help us if the Navy has to go into action, these ships can’t even get out of their own way, It is a shame what is going on in the armed services.
“I want our fleet commanders to get together with their leaders and their commands to ensure that we are taking all appropriate immediate actions to ensure safe and effective operations around the world.”
You mean, you mean to say, sir, that that is in doubt? Those actions should have been in place, say, thirty, sixty years ago and not deviated from.
I agree! One collision is one huge mistake, two collisions is an operational and/or training mistake.
Patroits are screaming - USN - get your act together! You are embarrassing our Nation.
The military has a made it clear that “minorities” cannot fail training programs.
I knew a female that supposedly passed a space system school that asked on her first day on the job after school, “What’s the difference between an uplink and a downlink?” She was spoon fed answers to exams to ensure she passed.
I can only imagine some minority on the bridge asking, “What’s a latitude?”