Posted on 04/08/2024 5:10:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“America’s Navy values diversity, equality and inclusivity,” the woke Navy leadership claims. “We believe that when a diverse group of individuals come together to do a job, they can do it better because of their differences.”
The Year of Hate helped accelerate the woke destruction of the US Navy.
Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday announced that he wanted to change the Navy. While the title of the video of his remarks was “One Team, One Navy”, its divisive message was that the Navy was racist and only “conversations” about race would help.
Gilday “shared” videos of naval personnel claiming that America was racist and that they were angry. “Being African-American in America is not fun,” an aviation technician claimed.
A lieutenant commander claimed that he had experienced “systemic racism” and “implicit bias”. A white corpsman urged that “we can stand up for change” and declared that, “tomorrow’s Navy will finally stand on the right side of history when we realize that black lives matter.”
“I have become very aware of my privilege as a white person,” a female musician confessed. Then she claimed that “this country has a history of systemic racism” and called for creating a “country that is more equitable and just.”
The video closed with Gilday vowing to eliminate “systemic racism” with a new task force.
How’s that working out? The “diverse group of individuals” can’t seem to get anything done beyond DEI sessions.
The Navy’s top admiral and civilian secretary have still not responded to questions about a damning Navy report released Tuesday outlining the sweeping failure of the Navy and its industrial partners to make expected progress on two submarine programs, an aircraft carrier and a new class of frigates.
The delays, from one to three years each depending on the program, come as the Navy and Pentagon pour billions into modernizing and upgrading shipyards in an attempt to build and repair ships more quickly and keep pace with China. Beijing’s navy has already surpassed the U.S. in size.
The revelations came in a one-page fact sheet the Navy put together outlining the findings of Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro’s 45-day shipbuilding study which he ordered in January. Neither Del Toro or the service’s top officer, Adm. Lisa Franchetti, released a statement or commented on the report, which shows a total of 11 years worth of delays across the affected programs.
Two classes of nuclear-powered submarines lead the list of delays, one of which will be the main carrier of the nation’s sea-based nuclear missiles.
Aware of the issues for years, the Navy is still unsure how to fix them.
“We don’t have detailed plans of action, milestones, initiatives — we are identifying and deeply looking into where we are now in a ‘get real, get better’ approach,” Nickolas Guertin, the Navy’s senior acquisition executive, told reporters at the Pentagon on Tuesday after unveiling the results of the Navy-ordered 45-day study.
“We found that we have issues that need to be resolved,” he said. “But we don’t have all those things completely nailed down yet.”
More videos about systemic racism should do it. And diversity. Diversity can fix anything.
We may no longer have a US Navy capable of taking on China, but at least everyone is respecting everyone else’s pronouns.
This must have been what it was like when the Roman Empire collapsed.
Daniel Greenfield ping
I Read recently we could contract our defense shipbuilding to Japan and South Korea. Imagine that. It’s delays and cost overruns on our end. Those countries don’t have that problem.
We’ve all seen it coming. Just look at all the Toyotas and Kias on the road.
We’re in the “looting the treasury” phase of societal collapse.
I cannot watch it. I just can’t. It fills me with rage.
I have decided to just call the denizens of the Swamp/Deep State "Looters".
Is it the engineers or the union labor?
Weapon System acquisition is hopelessly FUBAR’d.
Everything costs too much. Everything is behind schedule. Sustainment isn’t really planned for.
You’re looking at companies like Boeing and Raytheon to do excellent work. They can’t. And the DOD does not really care, at a fundamental level. It’s all about money flowing from this place to that place.
DEI is part of this problem, but this goes back at least to the mid 1990s and Defense Secretary William Perry’s decision to ban military specifications and standards. It’s been downhill from there and it gets worse all the time.
Actually, the way the article is written seems to conflate two things, the DEI on the one hand and the “damning report” on the other. The report is one of the most impressively honest things I’ve seen in years, and done in 45 days with a one page summary. As far as I could see, it’s not suggesting DEI to fix the ship building delays.
We may no longer have a US Navy capable of taking on China, and “hating
whitey” is de rigeur, but at least everyone is respecting everyone else’s pronouns.
“We believe that when a diverse group of individuals come together to do a job, they can do it better because of their differences.”
Moronic statement.
But that's not what DEI is about. The limiting factor of DEI is "equality of outcome."
Sacrificing high-performance standards for "equality of outcome" is like a marathon race wherein all athletes must finish with the slowest runner.
Outcome is limited to the lowest common denominator of competence, conscientiousness, and intelligence.
You don’t need a navy to crush internal dissent, so it’s being let go.
Even if they build, commission and accept these new vessels, where are they going to get competent personnel to “person” them?
He did........................
Nothing is more "systemically racist" than DEI.
DEI automatically assumes that black people are less competent and incapable of achieving high-performance standards. Ergo, high-performance standards must be reduced to gave them a chance.
That's racist to the core.
Similar situation, different cause, same outcome............
I know what you mean… However, I view many of the problems in industry and the US military (specifically the Navy, as a former sailor) As part and parcel of the same thing.
Absolutely everything from ships colliding In the south China Sea to delays and repairs of naval ships, I think can be completely tied to the lack of competency,
Which is directly tied to the trend of hiring people based on the color of their skin or their sex, rather than their competency at the skill needed to navigate a ship or manage a ship repair or ship building program.
I viewed this DEI bullshit as one of the most critical problems facing our nation because it has tentacles into just about everything from politics to the military to Medical processes.
The left has baked DEI into everything, and the only thing that will get us out of it is a catastrophe of some kind in my opinion. That catastrophe may be a war we get our clock cleaned, or financial catastrophe. But I do think that’s what it’s going to take.
I understand that is a pessimistic view. I just don’t know how to see it any other way.
It's almost as if some enemy state came up with a plan to rot out our military from the inside...
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