“A degree in journalism. Tells you all you need to know.
The Navy is lost, and the battle has not even been fought yet.”
Those two sentences say it all.
It really bothers me, having grown up in a Navy family, and served myself.
Sad. What is going to be sadder still is any kind of naval warfare. We can barely navigate ships without collisions, or have a ship tied up going up in a five billion dollar burst of flame.
Crew morale is in the pits, they are spending money for expensive “green” fuel for ships, they have dropped nearly any requirement at all for physical fitness, and promoted a woman with a journalism degree to four star rank, putting her on the fast track to CNO.
I am glad my father never had to witness this. He thought Zumwalt was bad, but this business makes Zumwalt look quite good. (For the record, I don’t know for a fact that my Dad didn’t like Zumwalt...I just gathered that from the look on his face when he talked about Zumwalt...)