That’s because they care more about fags trannys and drag shows than national defense
Did the Navy launch this or the contractor?
In organizational theory it has been shown over and over that any large organization can only do one thing well. Take education. When America felt threatened by what appeared to be superior Soviet technology the education system was revamped and became the envy of the world. Then, it was used to achieve social change. Now it is arguably a wart on the hind end of society. The same is apparently happening to the Navy.
“What about that other boat in the way?”
“It’ll move.”
Ships have been referred to as shes for several hundred years. Is that going to be a problem now?
It wasn’t that long ago that the Navy brass was trying to put an end to Rush’s show being broadcast on ships at sea because a some ‘sailors’ were offended by his conservative monologues. Oh how times have changed.
“Woke US Navy Can’t Launch A Ship Without Breaking It”
Take that, Putin!!!!
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The rule is “Never allege a conspiracy when simple incompetence will explain the issue.”
Maybe our analysis should start with asking why the tugboat was were it was and if the boat’s skipper was receiving the needed information to maintain situational awareness.
You are welcome to check the skipper’s gender identity/pronouns/“wokeness” if you wish, but it will probably turn out to be a very local and low level case of corner cutting on safety and possibly being slow to react when things went sideways…
USS Clevland used to be LPD-7 back in the days when I had the watch in the Tonkin Gulf and I knew I was on station when the ship was completely obscured by the flag ship Iwo Jima.
It wasn’t the Navy.
Woman driver?
Numerous posts about this. This was a shipyard evolution. Not a Navy action.
What moron ordered a tug boat to be in the way???
This would not have happened if the Navy had taken climate change more seriously.
(Everything bad is due to climate change, right?)
The Chinese assigned to spy on us were likely falling off their monitor chairs from the laughter, having to use inhalers to overcome the hyperventillation.
That said, I hope this present a learning experience for our Navy. I have heard zero about this incident.
We may be running out of that temporary luxury known as Peacetime. Time to get serious, again.
“Breaking it” is a bit dramatic. And it wasn’t the Navy that launched it, it was the shipyard.
Crabs launch sideways
Lobsters launch straight
WTF...