I'll stand watch ANY time, skipper..!!!
I will..!!!!
Posted on 08/27/2017 12:13:58 PM PDT by NCjim
Congressional investigators and military officials warned repeatedly about overworked sailors, shortened training schedules and budget cuts in the years leading up to two fatal collisions involving U.S. Navy ships, government auditors, lawmakers and Pentagon officials said.
The collisions in June and earlier this week, both Navy guided-missile destroyers operating in the Pacific, left 17 sailors dead or missing.
Three reports in the past two years by the Government Accountability Office, an independent watchdog agency, spell out endemic problems. They found through interviews and Navy studies that U.S. sailors overseas often arrive to their assigned ships without adequate skills and experience. They end up on duty for an average of 108 hours a week, instead of the Navy-standard of 80 hours, the reports found.
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Obama's Fault.
Smells like BS to me - obvi job one is not to crash.
I would bet they are very well trained in sensitivity and diversity though.
When will someone step up and say clearly that operational training is taking a back seat to training on living with and coddling sexually disturbed misfits?
I'll stand watch ANY time, skipper..!!!
I will..!!!!
Obama’s government forcing the navy to waste too much time and money re-educating all navy personnel in the new rules regarding the use of personal pronouns. Even tried changing the names of all ratings eliminating the word “man.” Complete and utter waste of time, money, energy, resources, men and equipment. Complete and disastrous failure of command.
Let's drive home RIGHT NOW..!!
Let’s see how Trump solves this problem. No more US paying for sex change operations. Then no more transgender med’s after the operations. With few and fewer transgenders in military no need for diversity training. Save money there too.
Also as good as making Mexico pay for the wall.
“On 22 June, the US Maritime Administration filed a seemingly bland incident report. The master of a ship off the Russian port of Novorossiysk had discovered his GPS put him in the wrong spot – more than 32 kilometres inland, at Gelendzhik Airport.”
“After checking the navigation equipment was working properly, the captain contacted other nearby ships. Their AIS traces – signals from the automatic identification system used to track vessels – placed them all at the same airport. At least 20 ships were affected.”
It seems like something else is going on besides fatigue.
No way those ships can get close to a Navy vessel without the vessel knowing.
“Obama’s government forcing the navy to waste too much time and money re-educating all navy personnel in the new rules regarding the use of personal pronouns. Even tried changing the names of all ratings eliminating the word “man.” Complete and utter waste of time, money, energy, resources, men and equipment. Complete and disastrous failure of command”
Why can’t a 4 star marine secdef put an end to this shit..for Christ’s sake.
Ok, I’m all about posting images in threads, but that was sickening.
I’ll NEVER be convinced that having to deal with gender issues and having sailors who insist on making sexuality an issue doesn’t distract from training focused, cohesive and well-qualified crew.
Smells like BS to me - obvi job one is not to crash.
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I agree.
But I do believe there’s a reason that no one in the US Navy has enough remaining integrity to admit.
Promotions in the officer ranks isn’t about competence anymore. It’s about compliance with the most idiot levels of PCism and SJWism.
So, there’s a good chance there are no more officers in the Navy capable of actually leading, but instead the Navy is filled with officers who are masters of the Diversity Training.
I think the point is the Navy vessel knew (its electronics) but those that were supposed to know how to read them were either crashed on their feet or did not know how to read them due to very poor training. Example: new skippers no longer are sent to boat driving school at Newport but report directly to their boat without any training ... its all OJT.
The something else is the work sched reported in the story as 108 hour wk. Boat driving in the dead of a dark night is very monotonous - we use to have a key we had to turn every 15 minutes or a very load alarm would sound; it is easy to fall asleep.
Bs, Station 1 on the bridge or all in the brig,
Inexperienced folks in Pacific. Too expensive to send experienced family guys on those tours. Lots of experienced folks taken out via Fat Leonard situation. Throw in the video game generation. My Navy family member says toddlers are preferable to 19 year old sailors. Etc.
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