[IonImplantGuru]

...those entrusted with them will be forced to be more conservative and take fewer chances to avoid career-killing SNAFUs like this. Which sounds good -- until a wartime emergency requires them to know how to push the envelope.

That was precisely the case in the first year or so of WW II. Because of the devastation to the fleet at Pearl Harbor, the Pacific sub fleet and our carriers were all we had to take it to the bad guys.

A lot of those submarine skippers were relieved of command becasue they weren't agressive enough in attacking the enemy, while worrying to much about putting their boats and careers at risk. Some even asked to be relieved because they couldn't handle the stress.

I'm afraid we may be doing the the same things to our active duty sailors today.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Its worse since naturally aggressive, war-risk-taking officers generally don't want the bureaucratic nonsense and extreme hand-wringing, handwriting, bottom-wiping worries typical of the nuclear-trained admirals.

Bureaucrats get killed in war.

Fighters kill. And for 50 years, the nuclear navy has bred bureacrats and promoted those who follow (literally) every page in the book.