I bet the Navy is getting better now.
PC hits the Nav
The bean-counters and social scientists are now in charge of operations.
The Crew of the Mayflower displayed better seamanship than these clowns!
This won’t get better until we get back to rewarding military professionalism and stop the absurd Political Correctness that is destroying our Armed Forces!
Nephew was in the navy right out of high school and was trained to work in the boiler room. He often had to work 2-3 days straight because there was no one able to relieve him of duty. When he finally got off his shift, he only had six hours to shower, sleep and eat. This schedule often did not allow him to even get to the mess in time for meals, so many days he ate most of his meals from care packages his mom sent.
I don’t think its the training, but the extremely demanding schedules all the navy is under due to lack of personnel and increasing demands which put them out to sea for longer periods.
My nephew never told anyone the conditions under he worked until just recently when we asked him specific questions. He said it was a miracle there aren’t more accidents given how exhausted everyone is on board.
LGBT and lady sailors anyone?
Read the story.....marked for later commenting
Im embarrassed to say this, but I guess it was a good decision to not enlist in the Navy in 2003.
It’s cuz they gots lax on they groomin’ standards. Once the groomin’ standards gits lax, other standards fall.
I bet they know all about the dangers of global warming tho.
And along the same lines as the comment I read at Instapundit.com, I bet those ship drivers got 100% on their diversity training test and they also know how to handle the situation when a transgender person comes into the bathroom with them.
JoMa
We are a Navy that learns from mistakes and the Navy is firmly committed to doing everything possible to prevent an accident like this from happening again,”
We are now issuing corrective orders. TO ALL SHIPS: LOOK OUT THE WINDOW. END.
I was on active duty after Vietnam. The Army severely lowered standards to get people into the Army after the draft ended. Because of the Vietnam war, the protesting, etc., good people did not come in. We got men with very low GT scores (that is the general aptitude test that you do when you do testing as you enlist). Used to be you had to have a score around 100 if I remember right. A score of 90 basically meant you were a dummy. I had a soldier with a GT score of something like 75. He could not remember how to do anything. Show him something and in 15 minutes he had forgotten how. It was not until the 1980s that good, smart, competent troops started coming back to the military. After Nam, it was called the hollow Army because we were so short of troops. My unit in Germany was suppose to have like 150 men in our company. We had less than 100. So, obammy screwing with the military brings back those years to me.
They need to go back to the system where your class, level of education, and IQ determine what your duties are in the military. It used to be that officers were usually college graduates, and the enlisted were high school or lower. Officers need to do the critical, decision on the fly duties, and the enlisted need to do the formulaic duties they are trained for and assigned.
One big problem is that “college graduates” ain’t what they used to be. They need to depend on cultural background research and intelligence testing to discriminate between officer candidates and enlistee material.
But they won’t.
Ship command is regarded only as an afterthought these days. Just another 2-year ticket punch.
Some sailors were trained and prepared for years before they assumed command of capital ships, and it was not their first “at-sea” posting. Multiple division head tours and a good turn as an XO were mandatory.
Surface warfare training has suffered as well. Naval aviation and nuclear power schools still have their specialized programs, but apparently, somewhere along the way, even basic seamanship is being left deficient.