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If War Comes, Will the U.S. Navy Be Prepared?
Wall Street Journal ^ | 7/12/21 | Kate Bachelder Odell

Posted on 07/12/2021 10:06:57 PM PDT by MAGA2017

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1 posted on 07/12/2021 10:06:57 PM PDT by MAGA2017
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You betcha we’ll be ready!

We’ll have more trannies than any other navy in the world. Every seaman will be thoroughly trained in Critical Race Theory and will know that America is irredeemably racist. We will have the best maternity flight suits for female aviators.


2 posted on 07/12/2021 10:09:49 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.” ~ Ronald Reagan)
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“If war comes, will the U.S. Navy be prepared?”

Well, that depends. Are they stocked up on rainbow flags and glitter?

3 posted on 07/12/2021 10:10:13 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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Commanders have less authority but brutal accountability. In the report, sailors expressed “near universal disdain” for a “one mistake Navy” that defenestrates leaders who make an error. It’s a “drag on retention, lethality and morale.” Former Navy Secretary John Lehman ticks off in the report the five-star admirals who won World War II and their mistakes: Bill Halsey “was constantly getting in trouble for bending the rules or drinking too much”; Chester Nimitz “put his first command on the rocks”; Ernie King was “a womanizer.” They were punished at times, but Navy leadership always realized “these were very, very promising” officers. None, he concludes, could have made it past captain in today’s Navy.

Note also an illustration that captured this mentality in practice from a recent piece in Proceedings magazine. During an overseas exercise (the article doesn’t say when), a U.S. destroyer and a British frigate “traded some paint,” a minor run-in. “The next day at a gunnery exercise, the British ship was on the gun line, and the U.S. ship was headed to port to embark the investigation team.”

Then there is the unhealthy fear of bad publicity. After negative news stories, the report found, “the senior ranks are perceived as quick to sacrifice junior personnel” to save their own tails. Discipline is “bent to the unsteady whims of public perception, not the Navy’s own standards and regulations.”

A command master chief told sailors to “clap like we’re at a strip club” when Vice President Mike Pence came aboard the carrier. He resigned, his 30-year career ending after one misjudgment. Admirals “hide in foxholes at the first sight of Military.com and the Military Times,” said one intelligence officer.

China will be the big topic when Carlos Del Toro, President Biden’s nominee for Navy secretary, appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. Perhaps Mr. Del Toro, a former destroyer captain, can shake the Navy awake. As the new report notes in closing, there isn’t much time for learning once war is under way.


4 posted on 07/12/2021 10:10:40 PM PDT by MAGA2017
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They’ll be terribly outequipped in the rubber phallus category, they need to rush order more to maintain parity!


5 posted on 07/12/2021 10:12:07 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: MAGA2017

My immediate response to that question is: “Don’t Ask!”
...meaning Heck No, we won’t be ready, certainly not a ground war anywhere. Biden’s Navy is far too worried about PC-BS.


6 posted on 07/12/2021 10:12:21 PM PDT by lee martell
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As soon as Heels Up is the Commander in Chief we’ll find outt.


7 posted on 07/12/2021 10:17:51 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns!)
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To: MAGA2017
Biden's Navy,


8 posted on 07/12/2021 10:22:00 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration." — Thomas Edison)
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I suppose that our bunch of homos and tranny’s will just scare the hell out of them. OH! Sorry! Is that “hate speech”?


9 posted on 07/12/2021 10:24:48 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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Prepared? Not likely. Appears they need to sort out their preferred genders and pronouns, etc.


10 posted on 07/12/2021 10:25:46 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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Back then we had the Soviets. We didn’t really have anyone to worry about the past 30 years. Now would be a good time for China to seize Taiwan. Let’s be honest. Will our navy be able to beat China? I think that’s going to be a question mark. 5 years ago, I would say no way because we are that much more advanced. But we’ve gone insane since then so China would win by default (assuming nuclear weapons are off limits).


11 posted on 07/12/2021 10:31:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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I don’t think any branch of the military or division or company needs to worry. There aren’t really enough white supremacists around to mount that much of an offensive. We have already won the next war.


12 posted on 07/12/2021 10:32:59 PM PDT by stevem
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To: noiseman

Heaven help us if the enemy has good gaydar!


13 posted on 07/12/2021 10:36:06 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: MAGA2017

Today’s navy under SlowJoe is much more about semen than seamen.


14 posted on 07/12/2021 10:38:33 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Rurudyne
Heaven help us if the enemy has good gaydar!

That’s what the glitter’s for. Chaff.

15 posted on 07/12/2021 10:43:25 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: MAGA2017

Personally, I think one of the biggest national defense questions is not about conventional warfare. It’s “Will the PRC have any ethical restraints precluding its use of biological warfare?”.

Unfortunately, I don’t think it will. Further, I don’t think we’d use a nuclear response - and they probably don’t think we would either.


16 posted on 07/12/2021 10:56:38 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Don’t drop the soap.......


17 posted on 07/12/2021 11:22:42 PM PDT by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
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To: MAGA2017

Read about the Doolittle reforms after WWII. It left our military badly prepared for combat. We paid a heavy price in the early part of the Korean War. This PC nonsense is even worse.


18 posted on 07/12/2021 11:22:44 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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No, they will not.
The military has to follow orders. Democrats are fighting the last war, and using the military
as a social experiment.
We Americans need to prep for the next War.
Democrats are our biggest enemies. Chinese
will be a walk in the park.


19 posted on 07/13/2021 12:18:17 AM PDT by rellic
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American hegemony ends when we lose our first nuclear aircraft carrier.


20 posted on 07/13/2021 12:32:17 AM PDT by Mr. Blond
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