Here you go....
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?
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Prepared to hold a pride parade maybe.
Depends. Whose side will they be on?
More women, transgenders and the gay! Diversity is our strength!
The obvious problem with the navy is that it needs more diversity!
Here you go....
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...interesting picture....!!! I would imagine from the Second World War era.... for you history buffs, the sailor on the left is a Signalman 3rd Class, one of several “right arm ratings” that signified REAL sailors; the sailor on the right is an Aviation Radioman 2nd class, an aviation rating that disappeared soon after WW II.....as far as the kissing....ummmm, I ain’t going there.......
“We can always have Biden give the aggressors a list of targets that are off limits or we can call a timeout.”
Hey c’mon man
“right arm ratings”
I did not know that...and I was in Uncle’s Sam’s Canoe Club for four years (71-75). Speaking of Signalman...my boot camp instructor was a First Class Signalman. One tough dude, but still a great guy.
AND, while I admit to kissing a few sailors...they were ALL Waves.
My father saw the same problems in the 1950s. A post-WW II graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, he was a merchant marine deck officer and activated his US Naval Reserve Commission during the Korean War. With close observation, my father was astonished at the frequent poor quality of USN ship handling. The naval chain of command was often arrogant and insistent on being catered to, while fundamental habits and skills pf seamanship were generally weak among USN officers and men. In contrast, poor seamen and weak officers were ruthlessly weeded out from the ranks of the merchant marine.
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Or a cat fight!
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