But that is money down the drain anyway until we end the leadership rot in our own military.
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This is what happens when you spend your time kicking out people for rejecting illegal Covid vaccines instead of focusing on readiness & training.
But the good news is they got top marks in unit diversity.
“In implementing these significant improvements, the Navy will become a more effective fighting force. ... increases ... the Navy’s lethality in combat,” the Navy said in a statement.
OK, Boomer.
Training and deployment cert should be continuous process. Given the mission a submarine should always be ready for deployment. Refreshers on a specific are for a specific mission - well yeah of course. On my old boat back in the cold war we always did all of that. Course we weren't woke yet - but we started working on it way back then.
“Prudent decision-making and adherence to required procedures in any of these three areas could have prevented the grounding.”
For someone with very little understanding of naval operations, can someone please explain what the Captain could have done to avoid hitting an uncharted sea mount?
My wife got a bunch of videos from our local library for me to watch, and one of them was the series “Last Ship”. I didn’t know anything about it and watched the first episode.
Don’t think I’ll watch any more of them.
Think “Love Boat” crossed with “The Omega Man” crossed with “Ice Station Zebra” with a completely woke crew (looks like every culture, color, religion, and sexual orientation is included) that is extremely competent and proficient at everything.
I guess at a fundamental level, woke-ness and competence are like oil and water to me. If you are focusing on woke-ness, you cannot be focusing on competence because woke-ness will ALWAYS trump competence.
I understand the problems the US Navy has with decreasing budgets, extended deployment cycles, and all that goes with that, but...as the Fitzerald, McCain, and Bon Homme Richard fiascos clearly indicate, the rot in our armed forces and the US Navy in particular runs deep...not to mention this.
That said, I can only take their word that it was “Unit Level Failures”, since I have never been a bubblehead and don’t know how all that plays out. And I have never, in my whole life, had any trust in the Naval Investigative Service. Their job is first and foremost to make the Navy look good and find scapegoats, not to improve processes or render justice. Never has been.
Sadly.
My grandson works for Electric Boat in Groton....Very proud of him. But he wants to work for Musk.
Ah, does the pursuit of equity always result in poor outcomes because of lower standards?
I get sending the “O”gangers packing but I fail to see how the Chief of the Boat got canned, unless he was the diving officer on watch & was way below ordered depth when they struck.
Deviating from ordered depth based on overheard talk in the control room will get you court-martialed. Whoever has the conn commands course, depth, & speed, it is NOT the diving officer. The CO, XO, & Navigator can take the conn at any time from their junior by simply issuing a conning (course, speed,rudder, depth, etc.) order while on or about the bridge.
The scourge of the seas US Navy was ramming supertankers, now they’re having trouble finding the bottom of the ocean.
[“In implementing these significant improvements, the Navy will become a more effective fighting force. Given the inherently dangerous nature of Naval operations, we cannot become a risk-averse or zero-defect organization, but prioritizing safety will engender a culture of greater attention to detail in operational tasks, enhanced procedural compliance, and a questioning attitude that constantly seeks improvement – which increases the readiness of our forces and the Navy’s lethality in combat,” the Navy said in a statement.]
Now that’s a word salad. Saltines? Fresh cracked pepper?
How many women on board, and what was their role/duty stations at the time of the incident?
“accumulation of unit-level errors”
In other words, they are all incompetent. We are in trouble.
The USS Connecticut (SSN 22) grounded on an uncharted seamount “while operating submerged in a poorly surveyed area in international waters in the Indo-Pacific region”
I would think it is the Navy top brass at fault for failing to have proper charts.