[gaijin]

Theyre training as much as ever it’s just that half of the things turned training involve social experiments:

understanding homosexuals or minorities, putting on pregnancy simulators, walking around in high-heeled shoes...all manner of things totally unrelated to making America safe.

as has been noted 100 times, the liberal tendency is to turn the military into a laboratory for sociology ideas and we just got out of doing that to the US military for 8 years.

actually more than that.

The only blessing is that we’re finding this out while we do not yet have a full-scale Navy battle on our hands.

[Thommas]

The junior officers on watch the night of the collision were also relieved due to "poor seamanship and flawed teamwork as bridge and combat information center watch standers."

Who were these junior officers who screwed up so badly? Are the Navy and/or the press hiding the names for political reasons? Social engineering indeed...

[x]

Theyre training as much as ever it’s just that half of the things turned training involve social experiments:

understanding homosexuals or minorities, putting on pregnancy simulators, walking around in high-heeled shoes...all manner of things totally unrelated to making America safe.

I hope you're not equating integrating the military and trying to ease racial tensions with that other stuff.

[alloysteel]

Megadittoes and amen.

The duty of ANY military force is to be ready, at all times, to make noise, break things that belong to the enemy, and kill these same enemies.

Breaking your own things and killing your own people is highly unproductive. No matter how much noise you make.