Posted on 10/15/2021 11:24:12 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
I’m surprised he hasn’t advised them “Work smarter, not harder.”
I always LOVED it when my bosses told me that (they didn’t stay my boss long after telling me that pablum).
Homer Simpson?
By being an Affirmative action pick in a time where that was being used as a cudgel to destroy the military. Succeeding quite brilliantly, too.
“She was head of the Navy’s Climate Change Task Force ...”
Oh jeez. Put a democrat in charge of the Sahara desert and in 6 months they’d have to import sand.
Yeah. She is as qualified for any job she has ever held, as Michelle Howard, the first female four star admiral was for the jobs she held.
When she made “history”, I saw a list of the people she jumped over to get that promotion, and every single one of them had far more real experience and better records than she did.
She was a black, female administrator. (she was also on Biden’s transition team as a reward)
It is promotions like that which have resulted in our ships colliding on open oceans due to abject stupidity, poor maintenance, and non-existing training.
And that training that does exist has been so watered down and ignored it is meaningless.
Damn all these people to Hell.
Maritime shipping is different from most other government agencies' work in that it's tied to geographical limitations, weather, physics, and actual work getting done while the government employees face intense scrutiny from their private industry peers across the table.
Failures are usually immediately apparent and could be catastrophic, unlike other departments in government where workers can fail upward for decades like Mr. Fauxi.
Mark Buzby’s only expertise is in the field of Alinsky stratagery. Thts enough to float joe’s boat
Mark Buzby’s only expertise is in the field of Alinsky stratagery. Thts enough to float joe’s boat
Nailed it.
So then all women should be banned from the military?
No. I didn’t say that.
Women have, can, and do serve honorably in the military.
Women should not be in combat. Period.
And promoting women because they are women over men to break a barrier that shouldn’t be broken so they can serve in combat is just as bad as putting women in combat.
It’s obvious this admin does not appoint people for their experience. More like an Affirmative Action admin.....
They serve honorably but they can only advance through affirmative action, right? There has never been a case where a woman outperformed a man or advanced through merit alone? That's what you're saying, isn't it? Apparently it's the same for Black officers are well, based on other posts.
Another woman with limited experience. Maybe she is not a communist, socialist, asian, russian, latino, black? So far just about every plugs nominee has been some degree of radical wack job.
Of legal knowledge I acquired such a grip
That they took me into the partnership.
And that junior partnership, I ween,
Was the only ship that I ever had seen.
Beat me to it.
Climate Change 'expert'? Sea Level Rise 'expert'? This is another Affirmative Action hire who has been groomed to
present an "impeccable" resume'.
It’s OK because the Transportation Secretary is a pillow biting fudge packer on maternity leave so we have that going for us.
..From a captain's chair on the quarter deck, while a strategically placed XO does all the work. As well you know, eh, swabby?
I don’t see anything constructive in going straight to the racism card as you appear to do with your “...Apparently it’s the same for Black officers are well, based on other posts...” commentary. However, if you wish to pursue that, please copy and post anything I have ever posted that stated someone was an affirmative action hire, and I will provide you with the evidence, or what I see as the evidence.
If it wasn’t me who posted it, don’t bother, because I don’t buy into that. But just because I don’t buy into that based on race or sex alone doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, because it damn well does.
That said, from the perspective of these two female naval officers advanced during the Obama administration, for them it seems absolutely true that they were advanced through affirmative action.
I defy you to look at the service history of the people in both cases they were promoted over and come to any other conclusion. I have not done more than read a lengthy interview she gave some time ago to form my opinion on her based on the pap coming out of her mouth, but when Howard was promoted to four star admiral, I did indeed look up available service history information on her as well as the other officers being considered, and there was no question she was a political affirmative action hire.
Some people might say that pointing this out because she is both black and female makes me both a racist and a sexist, but I don’t have a problem backing up my assertion which I regard as accurate in both cases.
And it isn’t as if this is anything new in the US Navy either. Kara Hultgreen was a prime example, though I do feel she was trying to make it through on her own merits and not those of being a female. She just wasn’t good enough, and if she had been a male, would have been washed out, but they pushed her through, sadly for her. However, the female aviator (given an alias in the book to protect her identity, was Lt. Mary Louise Cummings) described in the book “Bogeys and Bandits: The Making of a Fighter Pilot” was an example of the toxic damage they were doing to the Navy by pushing people like her through because she was a woman. She was allowed to repeat errors (such as “Blue on Blue” kills which means shooting down your wingman or other friendly aircraft by accident) which would have washed any male pilot out. And she knew it. She KNEW the leverage that the politically correct leadership was handing to her.
So please forgive me if my refusal to accept less qualified people being shoehorned into slots (in a way that ensures a less qualified person will occupy it) where actual human life in the form of our valuable military personnel can be uselessly expended, and eventually, success in a conflict depends.
It isn’t like we didn’t just see that happen in utter failure in Afghanistan resulting in an exclamation point of 13 Marines losing their life because both the civilian head of the military as well as the military heads being far more interested in social experimentation and homosexuality advancement than they are in the lost lives of our sons, daughters, husbands, wives, mothers and fathers.
That is the exact same driving force, that killed those 13 Marines, that drives people to want to put women in combat roles, and to advance them for social purposes into roles they are less qualified or completely unqualified for.
And I don’t support it.
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