Posted on 07/12/2021 10:06:57 PM PDT by MAGA2017
A new report prepared by Marine Lt. Gen. Robert Schmidle and Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, both retired, for members of Congress paints a portrait of the Navy as an institution adrift. The report, first reported by the Journal and commissioned by Sen. Tom Cotton, Reps. Mike Gallagher, Dan Crenshaw and Jim Banks, concludes that the surface Navy is not focused on preparing for war and is weathering a crisis in leadership and culture.
The impetus for the report was a series of recent catastrophes—a ship burning in San Diego last year; two destroyer collisions in the Pacific in 2017. Were these isolated events? Or did they indicate “larger institutional issues that are degrading the performance of the entire naval surface force”? The report surveyed active and recently retired service members of various ranks, conducting 77 candid hourlong interviews. A key finding: “Many sailors found their leadership distracted, captive to bureaucratic excess, and rewarded for the successful execution of administrative functions” rather than core competencies of war.
“I guarantee you every unit in the Navy is up to speed on their diversity training,” said one recently retired senior enlisted leader. “I’m sorry that I can’t say the same of their ship-handling training.”
Adm. Montgomery told me in an interview over the weekend that when he was a junior officer in the 1980s there was “an intense focus” on a likely confrontation with the Soviet navy—learning about classes of ships or the missiles aboard. After decades without a peer adversary at sea, “the same focus is not permeating the Navy today.”
The report also details a deep culture of risk aversion: If the missiles start flying, will a destroyer captain be ready to make quick decisions and take calculated risks, even if his communications are jammed and he can’t reach his superiors?
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
from what I’ve seen of the US Navy’s performance the past 20 years or so—they might be an effective ramming force of hitting other ships.
but actual combat fighting ability? I can only pray.....
but unlikely since the Navy brass is probably the most compromised of all the armed forces
But we have Nancy/Karen admirals singing "In the Navy" doing the Rockette's high step in high heels. We need warriors now more than ever, not a bunch of self-confused idiots in a group grope. Get your shiite together or get out of the way for real men. Misspelling intentional.
You beat me on it. Good job LOL.
The real question is, who’s side will they be on? I don’t trust our military leaders anymore.
Prepared?
Yep, they are prepared. They have issued all ranks KY jelly.
Obama killed the US Navy. Now Biden is nailing the coffin shut.
Six months ago, yes, the US Navy was well on the way to being able to hold its own, or even prevail, in a concerted attack at sea upon our fleet. Now, the US Navy is less prepared than they were on the morning of December 8, 1941.
Bombed and sunken in their home port. By “friendly” forces, the prospective enemies need do nothing.
Well any extended war will require total mobilization here at home and that is highly unlikely given what our current government has been up to.
Lyrics
“In The Navy” - Village People
Where can you find pleasure
Search the world for treasure
Learn science technology
Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true
On the land or on the sea
Where can you learn to fly
Play in sports and skin dive
Study oceanography
Sign up for the big band
Or sit in the grandstand
When your team and others meet
In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy
Come on now, people, make a stand
In the navy, in the navy
Can’t you see we need a hand
In the navy
Come on, protect the mother land
In the navy
Come on and join your fellow man
In the navy
Come on people, and make a stand
In the navy, in the navy, in the navy (in the navy)
They want you, they want you
They want you as a new recruit
If you like adventure
Don’t you wait to enter
The recruiting office fast
Don’t you hesitate
There is no need to wait
They’re signing up new seamen fast
Maybe you are too young
To join up today
But don’t you worry ‘bout a thing
For I’m sure there will be
Always a good navy
Protecting the land and sea
In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy
Come on be bold and make a stand
In the navy, in the navy
Can’t you see we need a hand
In the navy
Come on, protect the motherland
In the navy
Come on and join your fellow man
In the navy
Come on be bold and make a stand
In the navy, in the navy, in the navy (in the navy)
They want you, they want you
They want you as a new recruit
Who me?
They want you, they want you
They want you as a new recruit
But, but, but, I’m afraid of water.
Hey, hey look
Man, I get seasick even watchin’ it on the TV!
They want you, they want you in the navy
Oh my goodness.
What am I gonna do in a submarine?
They want you, they want you in the navy
In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy
Come on be bold and make a stand
In the navy, in the navy
Can’t you see we need a hand
In the navy
Come protect the motherland
In the navy
Come on and join your fellow man
In the navy
Come on be bold and make a stand
And ship captains no longer get ship handling training, rather they learn how to handle their newly assigned ship on the job. So hitting a container ship is to be expected, as is running aground in open waters; its a wonder with all the corners cut to please the bureaucracy, to teach SJ, faggotry, and other woke crap, that more ships haven’t been lost.
Perhaps China doesn’t have a blue water navy, but the ship handling on both sides **may** be equal now ... unless the Chinese unleash their secret weapon ... a fleet of container ships ...
Depends on what stage of the sex change they’re in.
We can always have Biden give the aggressors a list of targets that are off limits or we can call a timeout.
....”....will a destroyer captain be ready to make quick decisions and take calculated risks, even if his communications are jammed and he can’t reach his superiors?”
Well,given today’s Navy, it would probably be a “her” or maybe even an “it” trannie....let’s hope she’s not going through PMS...
How can a country that out sourced all of it’s pharmaceutical industry ever be prepared for war?
When a ship goes to GQ now a days what does the announcement sound like? “’Person’ your battle stations”.
.....good point....! when I was at sea we had regular “Man overboard!” drills....do they still have those, or have they been changed to “Person overboard!” or something....??
Someone’s overboard?
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