Posted on 04/08/2024 5:10:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
As my post just above indicates, I believe it is all tied together. I don’t believe it is one thing or the other in this case (or any other case for that matter).
President Bush rewarded Italy’s support in the Gulf War with a contract for the Army’s small arms. It was worth a lot. Congress went ballistic. Can you imagine what Congress would do if we tried to buy foreign made ships? By the way, the Spanish Empire bought their cannons from Brittain. In retrospect, probably not a good idea. The British on purpose built a couple of dozen types for each Spanish ship, requiring a nightmare logistics effort to supply them. For their navy they built, if recall, three types call them, small, medium and large.
Our shipbuilding problems are entirely manufactured. There’s the Green movement and their lawyers. There are the astroturf rentamob protestors. There are federal, state and local regulations. Then there’s labor unions. There’s political infighting that might give the great sea state of Omaha a contract for destroyers. Then there’s all the pages of crap at the end of every government contract that’s about DEI, ESG, banning cadmium, banning chromium, and insisting on a gay/lesbian/trans outreach program.
Years ago, my company was bidding on an Australian navy contract. The contract said we would use zero Australian labor. When I asked why we were told that there were too many labor strikes and walkouts and using Australian labor would result in delays.
Working for Honeywell I needed some PC’s. The company had a policy that we only bought Honeywell products. They had no competing product. So, no PC’s. I bought the PC’s by buying individual pieces that were totally not computers and having a contractor assemble them and set them up. Three times the price. What we’re trying to do is circumvent the problems we ourselves have developed. It will cost three times the price of just biting the bullet and fighting the good fight.
I asked out contracting office how we could get rid of the pages of crap in our contract that individual congressmen had put in. He said, “the President would have to use his power directly on every contract and it would cost him support in Congress.”
It’s becoming apparent that the proper functioning of modern high tech societies depends on a critical mass of highly competent people in key positions. When those people are replaced by mediocre individuals hired on the basis of appearance, things begin to fall apart. As those mediocre people are promoted (for the same reasons they were hired), they only hire others less competent than they are. At that point things fall apart VERY quickly. That’s where we are today.
COVID.
It’s hard.
The “Navy” doesn’t build ships. Private contractors do. The focus on delay needs to start there.
Certainly this DIE crap isn’t helping the Navy, but it’s not responsible for the problem discussed. Now, if we want to talk about maintaining and operating ships that’s a valid discussion.
LOL
We could have China build them for us. We can pick them up at the local Costco that’s closest to a naval pier.
Remember in Basic Training when the focus was on respecting our differences?
( no, neither do I)
“We believe that when a diverse group of individuals come together to do a job, they can do it better because of their differences.”
That right there is a prime example of a meaningless phrase containing no logic, intelligence, rigor, or purpose. It does pretend a lot, however. It is produced by those who struggle to gain two IQ points...otherwise known as “studies” majors.
I’m sure Biden will continue to see DEI as the more important initiative than overcoming the delays.
The Navy doesn’t build ships, but they develop the specifications, they have experts review designs and they manage progress evaluations. And they pass their DEI expectations to the contractors.
Austin must be constantly shaking this toady Gilday off his leg and pulling his tongue out of his ear.
Amen.
I served aboard a destroyer with different races. We got along just fine. I don’t recognize the military anymore.
Take that, Putin!!!! We don’t need no navy because WE ARE AMERICA, and therefore WE ARE INVINCIBLE!!!
Reminds me of the joke about the drill sergeant on race: “In the Army, there is only one color and that color is green. Now, I want all you dark green soldiers to line up here…”
The US Navy and Pentagon pour billions of tax dollars into modernizing and upgrading
shipyards in an attempt to build and repair ships more quickly and keep pace with China.
Yet, Beijing’s navy has already surpassed the U.S. in size.
The Year of Hating Whitey helped accelerate the “woke” destruction of the US Navy.“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.”
Now everybody in the Navy “respect’s” each other’s pronouns
..... But They Can’t Figure Out How to Build Ships.
This is not by accident.
It is intentional.
People who are given positions of power simply for being a particular race, religion, political party or ethnic minority, will fail at that position.
Choosing a characteristic over character is never a good decision.
People will get killed....................
“We don’t have detailed plans of action, milestones, initiatives — we are identifying and deeply looking into where we are now...”
[This Guy throws up in his mouth a little bit...]
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Whaddya have for ESG?
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