Exactly right. Add to that the elimination of Surface Warfare Officer’s school.
The PC lunatics are running the military into the ground. It shows up in events like this. Nobody in command dares to fire anyone for incompetence if “diversity” is in any way involved. If an incompetent OOD of color was fired the month before the collision, the CO would be charged with racism. So they allow incompetents to continue in positions like the OOD of a destroyer until the incompetence results in a disaster.
But nobody in the entire military dares to mention radically lowered standards.
Uh, whaaaaa????
This ain't my Navy.
Standards and common sense are the lifesblood of the military. Use the standards until common sense alerts you that the standards might need tweaking.
Hope no one higher up in Navy sees this, but have a son who did 6 years enlisted in Navy hoping to complete his degree while in Navy and then become an officer. But they have a crazy rule that only courses taken and passed while at sea will count. His ship was in dry dock most of his time.
So, after 6 years, he used the GI Bill to get his engineering degree (almost all A’s) and is going back in as officer and has been selected for flight school - very rare - but his dream since 8 years old. His grandfather was an O6 who could have made O7 if he stayed in reserves longer.
He has seen that political correctness has made the Navy incompetent at almost all levels.
So I ask him why he wants to fly jets whose maintenance crews are incompetent and don’t care?
“My life is in God’s hands.....” He’s a strong Christian after being a wild one.......
But he is correct.......
“But nobody in the entire military dares to mention radically lowered standards.”
That is the essential issue. Affirmative Action.