A certification to be war ready? Wouldn’t a destroyer be war ready by design?
Were these ships at war?
I get the lack of training, that is a leadership failure.
Who does this certification? Sounds like fake news, I sure as heck hope it is anyway. That’s insane. In the middle of Pearl Harbor.. sorry mr prez, the ships aren’t certified. I will fill out this paperwork while thousands die.
I have to say, I am deeply concerned about our entire defense structure.
That would be the bad old Navy. The new Navy is a “global force for good” that can’t be bothered with that heteronormative white nationalist training for war.
Army forces get combat certified also.
“I get the lack of training, that is a leadership failure.”
Leadership, yes. But most likely if you dive down into the data you will find that Obama cut the funding and diverted it to things like buying “green” fuel. These things have long cycle times, so a funding cut years ago leads to the situation we see today. The Navy is a huge organism with long cycle times and it takes a while for deficiencies due to poor top level management to manifest. However, Trump blamed in 9, 8, 7...
Some mechanism needs be in place to ensure that every ship has a qualified crew, is fully equipped, and has all of its systems maintained and operating properly. A formal certification covers all of those areas in minute detail.
A tool is useless if you dont know how to use it. War ships conduct refresher training on scheduled routines. Tiger teams from the geographical area come to the ship to train and evaluate the crew. The trainers are very good at what they do and a crew that passes has proved that they should be able to use the tool competently. Its always a war zone inside the skin of the ship, whether people are shooting at you or not. Just keeping a large ship powered and maneuvering successfully takes training and coordination of the everyone on board the ship. ...and yes, usually the lowest ranking men are given the most vital roles. Lookout - for things we may crash into, and making rounds below deck - on running equipment that provide the ship with electricity and propulsion to manuver that also may cause a fire or cause the ship to sink before we can prevent it.
Yes. This is a very big deal Much bigger than two of our most advance warships colliding with civilian ships while underway. Much bigger!
For 8 years the experienced and capable officers of the military were systematically . This happens with every Democrat administration. Leftists cannot shake their dread of the military and always move to neutralize it. Leftists know they are illegitimate in Western civilization and fear that the military, always a conservative bastion of society, will move against them and depose them when they rule. After 7 decades of Communism the army in the Soviet Union showed these fears to be accurate.
Ship go thru training and get periodic re-certification various areas of warfare.