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'Every officer is up to speed on diversity training. Not so much ship handling': Scathing official report finds US Navy is not fit for war because of risk averse, politically correct, control-freak top brass
UK Daily Mail ^ | 07/13/2021 | Keith Griffith

Posted on 07/13/2021 10:45:36 AM PDT by DFG

A scathing new report commissioned by members of Congress has claimed that the Navy's surface warfare forces have systemic training and leadership issues, including a focus on diversity that overshadows basic readiness skills.

The report prepared by Marine Lt. Gen. Robert Schmidle and Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, both retired, came in response to recent Naval disasters, including the burning of the USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego, two collisions involving Navy ships in the Pacific and the surrender of two small craft to Iran.

The authors conducted hour-long interviews with 77 current and retired Navy officers, offering them anonymity to identify issues they wouldn't feel comfortable raising in the chain of command.

The report found that a staggering 94 percent of the subjects believed the recent Naval disasters were 'part of a broader problem in Navy culture or leadership.'

'I guarantee you every unit in the Navy is up to speed on their diversity training. I'm sorry that I can't say the same of their ship handling training,' said one recently retired senior enlisted leader.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crt; disaster; diversity; military; navy
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1 posted on 07/13/2021 10:45:36 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Wankers Aweigh.


2 posted on 07/13/2021 10:47:24 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: DFG

All according to plan. A weak America is required for one world government.


3 posted on 07/13/2021 10:48:08 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: DFG

This was over a period before Biden was in charge. It has to have gotten worse.


4 posted on 07/13/2021 10:51:07 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: DFG
Sad stuff, and the pity is it would take a few days to turn this around with the right leadership.


5 posted on 07/13/2021 10:51:14 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: DFG

Translation : Libtards have screwed up the military


6 posted on 07/13/2021 10:52:35 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: DFG

Yep, up to speed with their required Indoctrination Courses.

A Navy full of “No Way Out” Commanders.


7 posted on 07/13/2021 10:53:57 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Biden - Make American Grovel Again...)
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To: DFG

https://warisboring.com/so-you-want-to-be-a-soviet-naval-political-officer/

8 posted on 07/13/2021 10:58:40 AM PDT by fishtank
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To: DFG

Putin and the Iranians are chortling with glee.


9 posted on 07/13/2021 10:58:41 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: DFG

I’m so embarrassed. When I was in the Navy I only knew of two genders, Martin Luther King Jr had a dream and “Don’t give up the ship!”.


10 posted on 07/13/2021 10:59:08 AM PDT by GMMC0987
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To: DFG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmGuy0jievs


11 posted on 07/13/2021 10:59:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: JonPreston

At this point, Patriots will have to purge military leadership of Marxists with the same zeal Obama purged Patriots from the military.
The media (along with R traitors) will flip out about it, so gonna need a spine of steel and solid political appointments to make it happen.


12 posted on 07/13/2021 10:59:41 AM PDT by teevolt
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To: Kickass Conservative

They’ll have to bring all us old shipdrivers with calibrated Mk I, Mod 0 eyeballs back.


13 posted on 07/13/2021 11:00:14 AM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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14 posted on 07/13/2021 11:00:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: DFG

I find it so interesting that the Daily Mail seems to be the source of so many of these types of stories (my impression).

That might be an indicator that all of the us based media is compromised and this is how this sort of information sees the light of day.


15 posted on 07/13/2021 11:01:59 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Red Badger

Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.


16 posted on 07/13/2021 11:02:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

It’s like our “Radio Free Europe”


17 posted on 07/13/2021 11:02:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Now it’s “Rump, Sodomy and the Eye Lash”..................


18 posted on 07/13/2021 11:02:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: teevolt

Exactly.


19 posted on 07/13/2021 11:03:00 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: GMMC0987

Don’t feel too bad, I’m sure the Army has traded in “The Platoon Leaders Handbook” in favor of books on the proper way to style ponytails and dreadlocks.


20 posted on 07/13/2021 11:03:36 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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