I spent 5 and a half yrs of my life assigned to boats.
There is nothing more disasterous and it confirms my previous stance. Our current flag officers are self-serving ass****s.
Anyone care to guess how much the “women on combat ships” fiasco has cost us in op tempo, money, and morale?
I’m glad I’m out and never thought I’d say it, but I will never, EVER recommend that service to a young person again.
Men and women are not equals and never will be, regardless of how many B*’s the SecNav may be getting under his desk.
In the Army, we call them REMFs: Rear Echelon M----r F----r's.
Actually, that term is applied to any officer who has no business being near troops.
Dittos to your assertion that the new flag officers are self-serving asses. I also heard once that so many high-ranking officers nowadays have daughters at the academies, etc. and these guys want their daughters in combat, etc. Jerks, is what they are. And, self-serving. So true.
Now, the only real combat organizations we have left are the U.S. Marines and the Special ops forces. The Army is ‘chickified’. Isn’t it frightening that our great nation has emaciated its military down to just the USMC and spec ops to fight for us? O.M.G.