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Lawmakers Survey: 94% of Sailors Say ‘Damaging Operational Failures’ Related to Navy Culture, Leadership Problems
U.S. Naval Institute ^ | July 12, 2021 | Sam LaGrone

Posted on 07/14/2021 10:32:16 AM PDT by Retain Mike

The Navy’s surface warfare community is weighed with a culture that values administrative chores over training to fight, ship commanders that are micromanaged and an aversion to risk, according to a new survey overseen by a retired Navy admiral and Marine general at the behest of a group of Republican lawmakers. That culture was at least partially responsible for a string “of high-profile and damaging operational failures in the Navy’s Surface Warfare community,” the report found.

The study, titled “A Report on the Fighting Culture of the United States Navy Surface Fleet,” surveyed 77 current and recently retired surface sailors “about their insights into the culture of the United States” and how it related to incidents that included the 2017 fatal collisions in the Western Pacific that killed 17 sailors, the 2016 incident in which the crews of two Navy patrol boats were captured by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf and the pier-side fire that resulted in the total loss of the former amphibious warship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6).

(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: navy; warfare
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To: Retain Mike

Ma'am the torpedoes.

21 posted on 07/14/2021 12:14:00 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
Ma'am the torpedoes.


22 posted on 07/14/2021 12:14:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PIF

Nothing personal here, but you keep calling people sheep because they were betrayed by people who elected them and trusted them to do what they were elected to do.

I don’t regard myself as a sheep, even though I didn’t do anything to stop this BS. Do you feel the same way, or were you actively involved in something to combat it?

Or are you saying we are all sheep?


23 posted on 07/14/2021 12:17:27 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Retain Mike

The Kenyanesian Usurper ran off all the warriors, the only officers we have left are the ones who would salute the transgenderizing of our military.

The founders knew what they were doing when they excluded the children of foreigners from being President with the natural born citizen clause.


24 posted on 07/14/2021 12:35:14 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rlmorel

What happened was ALL of our elected AND appointed threw out the Constitution and swore in a Kenyan/British subject/Indonesian in direct violation of the Constitution who proceeded to corrupt the entire government, military included.


25 posted on 07/14/2021 12:37:39 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rlmorel

Or are you saying we are all sheep?

got it in one. Me too. But I have an excuse - way over 70, its a young peoples game.


26 posted on 07/14/2021 12:39:33 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

Well, I’m right behind you...I wanted to go down for January 6th, and I wish I had been able to see with my own lying eyes...


27 posted on 07/14/2021 1:06:54 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I have to completely agree with you on this.


28 posted on 07/14/2021 1:07:35 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Bearshouse

I imagine it is not. I would now advise against it. When my son was assigned to India Company 4/3 Marlines as a rifleman, you really did not know you had been accepted until you were assigned a racial or ethic slur of the worst description.


29 posted on 07/14/2021 6:37:52 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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