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Posted on 08/21/2017 11:20:39 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Obama deliberately and maliciously strangled the US military. Now, exhausted short crews can’t keep up the tempo imposed by Obama’s strategic cowardice. There’s a reason for NATOPS crew rest requirements. I don’t know the Navy’s surface equivalent.
"US warship rams tanker".
They better get a grip on basic seamanship. God help us if they ever have to form a line, an ops group or fleet. These nimrods would be ramming each other, sinking carries, running ashore etc.
“We have not won a war since WWII”
And we were damn lucky at that. Took everything we had.
Korean spies or Islamic flies.
These admirals could just ORDER all ships to stand watches that would make any collision damn near impossible.
“Nope, we’ve done this to ourselves, with radical affirmative action and the totally dropping of standards in the name of PC radical diversity uber alles.”
That’s my guess as well. I talked today to a gal who just finished six years in the Navy, flight deck duty on carriers. Her still serving pals are convinced that these collisions are due to people not doing their job and not due to equipment failure.
In order to operate that radar, a sailor probably had to earn 37 different qualifications, each consisting of a 65 line "Personnel Qualification Standards" syllabus, ninety percent of which has no real applications to operating that piece of gear.
The task was overwhelming but the qual was absolutely necessary for career advancement. Plus, his LPO said if he's not qualified before deployment, he'll get a counseling chit and DIVO won't approve his POM leave.
So what's a sailor to do? Simple. They get the qual gundecked. "Hey buddy. Just sign this off for me. I'll figure out how to use it later."
Now in addition to the 90% of useless crap he doesn't need to know is the 10% that is absolutely essential to operating that radar! Of course, he's so overwhelmed with bulls**t that he doesn't recognize what he needs to know from what he doesn't so he gets everything gundecked, the crap and the important stuff. When it is time to take a proficiency test, his LPO gives him the answers because Chief is on his ass to get his workcenter qualled up!
Now he's fully qualified to operate this piece of gear but has no idea how to actually operate it. And there's 16 more pieces of gear he needs to get qualified to operate.
And in between earning his work-related qualifications, he has to take CNO-mandated training on sexual assault, alcohol abuse, equal opportunity, suicide awareness, transgender acceptance, hazing, fraternization, social network usage, financial management, sex trafficking, drug abuse, and stress. And he needs college courses. And he needs to sell breakfast burritos to raise money for the Second Class Petty Officer's Association. And he needs to go out and paint orphanages or serve food at a homeless shelter for volunteer hours on his eval.
And he needs to study for advancement.
And it is getting worse.
I read on CNN that the ship lost steering then regained it. That suggests tampering (China) to me...
It will likely come out that the collisions are occurring while everyone is below for diversity training.
And he has to stand watch!
How did I forget that one?
There isn't one.
So they rest on watch.
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