I'm glad I'm retired from the Navy. The Navy was forced into a PC nightmare in which sailors cannot be repremanded because it will "hurt someone's self-esteem." So chiefs, who used to run a tight Navy by kicking ass (literally) are reduced to pleading with Seaman Apprentice Screwup to please, please be more careful. Female recruits routinely burst into tears because their training CPOs are "mean" to them. G-d help us in the next war.
The Russian Navy may be a shadow of its former self, but my Navy isn't in much better shape. A President Obama will end the US Navy once and for all.
I thank the Almighty that I retired BEFORE there were women on ships. It boggles the mind to contemplate what it would be like for some sailor to start crying when I directed or reprimanded one of them for one reason or another.
In my era it was Zumwalt who, IMHO destroyed the Navy I knew, the one in which you earned privileges, not entitled to them.