So the USN is getting 500 new members for the deck crew to operate paint scrapers & needle scalers while muttering “rust never sleeps.” Brilliant!
donozark reminded me of McNamara’s Morons that were 100,000 guys who did not meet the standards to be drafted or recruited to the Armed Forces during my Vietnam time. We had one of these guys on our ship. He was a nice guy and the ship held on to him for all of his four years. He served in deck force and had assignments at which he could be successful. I hate to think of what happened to those the Army put into the infantry.