Maybe they need more diversity training or transgender counselling or booster shots.
While the ship is undergoing the overhaul, a certain number of sailors are required aboard in order to provide ship security, run essential equipment, and maintain fire and flood watches.
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And paint. Don’t forget painting.
What the hell is going on on that ship?
I work with a naval flight officer, he has served on carriers and stated that this is some of the worst duty for sailors. Stuck in port, living in a construction zone, located in an industrial area far from everything. Their main duty is cleaning up the mess the contractors leave at the end of the day.
I suspect poor leadership has a role as well. Someone, at some level, was not taking care of their sailors.
Bttt.
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Years ago, I read an extensive management article and one of the incidents was about a series of people quitting and some suicides. Then they moved the manager to another large area and there were more people quitting and committing suicide. They moved him again with similar results. (Can’t recall whether it was a business or military.) But the manager retired, and they were too late to the data to discover what it was that happened. But if it’s a management and personality problem there should be other means of discovering what’s going on. For example, just how many more transfer requests are being submitted here as compared with other similar situations? In large organizations when there are serious problems, and they aren’t fixed it’s always due to someone at the top who refuses to see or address the issue. For example, in one instance it was the boss’ son who had been given a position with high authority he didn’t deserve or know how to use. At another where there had been labor problems and high rates of resignations, I asked someone who had worked there and he said, “It’s because the management is evil. I mean, evil.” But he wouldn’t elaborate because the management at that company was so interrelated. Even so the top guys were fired at midnight on a weekday by their own relatives and ordered not to go back. A top manager from my facility was rousted out of bed and arrived at the facility to take over around eight on the following day. So just how bad were they? Apparently THAT bad.
My guess is there’s a captain who needs replacement. But he’s probably related to a top admiral who dotes on him.
Multiple dry docs and refurbs under my belt. All single sailors and the duty sections were moved to either a floating barracks, barracks or hotels. Always! Living conditions on a boat in the yards are non-existent. I can’t believe they did this to these sailors.
.....lol, I’m sure I’ve spent many nights in the exact same barracks in Yokosuka these feminized GW depressed weenies are going to be staying in.
I guarantee you that living in those barracks as opposed to onboard the GW is at best a lateral move for them.
YO-KOOS-KA is a very over-crowded place and I don’t envy anybody having to stay there very long.
The Navy should just draw up their separation papers and send them home.
Has the Navy watered down their requirements for enlisting???
Prior to going to the GW, I was stationed on the Independence when it was in Yokosuka. A dry dock period is the worst duty if you are a Jr. Sailor and had to live onboard like I did. You are on firewatch daily and there are fires always! Most of the time water onboard is off (shower hours), the AC is off (sweat, depression disappointment and smoke) and you usually have to box lunch it for dinner and midrats unless you walk over to the barracks ship in our case more than 1/2 mile away. Wiring, extension cords, tubing, grinding and hammering nearly 18 hours a day. The one good thing that made it worthwhile was the Battle (Strike) Group Commander Adm. Smith refused to move his office off the Independence as he had been her CO before promotion and any one who wanted to see him had to run the maze. In closing believe me I understand what these kids are going thru and I believe that they were overworked during the Pandemic because the civilians and contractors who would normally do 70% of the overhaul could not work, so it fell to the crew. Unless you have dry docked an aircraft carrier twice then you don’t know the mental strain that puts on sailor.
Going through a refuelling overhaul in the shipyard is what made me a one and done sailor. Worst retention rates in the Navy are on ships doing extended time in the yards. Insane work tempo....