“Our Country won’t go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now.
There won’t be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!”
–– Lt. Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC
(the most decorated US Marine in American history)
The Navy Goes Nanny State Thanks to Secretary Ray Mabus
Friday, March 16, 2012
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2012/03/the-navy-goes-nanny-state-thanks-to-secretary-ray-mabus.html
More and more, Ray Mabus seems like not such a great leader of the greatest navy in the history of the world...
at Tom Ricks’ blog at Foreign Policy has a posting by a field grade officer about the new initiatives coming down from the Pentagon...
...As a serving active duty officer in either the Navy or the Marine Corps, north of O-3 and south of the FO/GO ranks, I wonder if the enhancement in personal readiness occasioned by breathalyzers will be worth the trade-off in flagging morale, professional insult, and perceptions of detached, out of touch senior leadership. I will tell you this: Getting a breathalyzer after morning PT as a precondition for working like hell for the rest of the day has great potential to piss me right off.
While the “in the weeds” specifics of how the breathalyzer program will work are not yet revealed, the general contours of the program are that Navy leaders will administer breathalyzers to operational unit work sections duty sections — apparently everyone on duty, including, presumably, ship and squadron commanders — plus “random” samples of other sailors in shore and support commands...
This is nanny state kind of stuff and the SecNavy should be ashamed that this is happening on his watch.
This policy is either a giant, badly played joke or the Secretary is quickly becoming one himself.
Posted by Blackfive on Friday, March 16, 2012 at 09:47 AM in Bust Their Chops | Permalink | Comments (10)