Merit, competence and seamanship has been sacrificed on the altar of diversity. The commissars have taken control of the military.
....the “fighting, bleeding and dying Navy personnel” of WWII do not exist today so even 350 ships is an impossible fantasy to man and operate successfully not only because of money (a whole nuther long story) but because of PCCBS (Politically Correct Cancerous Bull Shit).................within the ranks equivalent to stage 4 cancer brought on by too many YEARS, if not DECADES, of across the isle collusion by the UNI PARTY including as many rubber spined and corrupt RINO’s as hardcore Democrats.
Evidence of PCCBS is everywhere. Ships routinely run into other HUGE ships with hideous fatalities with little accountability if any in most cases, Admirals and Captains fired regularly for all sorts of moral deficiencies, women in combat, women on ships, pregnancy explosion on ships, trans genders, murderous ROE’s run amok and on and on....., endlessly.
All of this is due in no small part to DECADES of liberal, PCCBS tinkering by pitifully ignorant, corrupt politicians in a Military Organization that Democrats and RINOs have no credibility even commenting on much less voting on policy.
Mattis, Trump et al have now recognized the moral decline of the TOP RANKS of the officer corp and are initiating programs to combat that sickness but that process will take decades and that’s IF future UniParty administrations don’t kill it.
Only a Pearl Harbor type attack times ten on the US Navy will wake up the civilian power structure that ruthlessly controls and manipulates it. We’re in a DEEP SLEEP and even Trump probably can’t wake us up.