This is good substantive reporting - lots of facts and quotes regarding the problems in the Seventh Fleet. The "many experts" are actually identified and quoted. The general thrust of the article is that the Navy is being stretched pretty thin.
One thing I found particularly interesting is that the Navy has shrunk over 25% since 1996. Per the article, there were 375 ships in 1996, and now there are 275.
Have you seen some of the people joining the Navy lately? I have , and all I can say is wow how the hell did they graduate college, plus many of them have no respect for the military, and only want their handouts.
You can actually sit there at MEPS and guess which ones are joining what service today.
....and the Chinese are NOT responsible for hacking into US Navy navigational systems?.....sure! Just a freak series of accidents......sure!
And how much money and time have been spent on social reengineering, training, and advancement based upon being the proper category and supporting Obama’s anti-readiness views?
Russians! Russians..!
“Nah! You libs just blurt out the most conventient thing..!”
(2 Navy ship crash)
“Hacking..! It’s totally hacking..!!”
Are we really so much better..?
I’d say we are spending WAYYYY too much time on social marxism and stupid gender matters.
But it’s like Rahm said:
“Never let a crisis go to waste”
We should IMMEDIATELY terminate ALL social marxism/gender stuff in one single swoop.
This is a GIFT.
Obamas admirals are having their impact. Between queers in the bridge, trannies in the engine room, and green algae fuel our ships are likely to sink each other before the enemy. Come on Mad Dog fix this shit already.
No, this was a successful effort by Obama to greatly degrade our military strength.
The helmsmen were busy attending sensitivity and diversity training instead of driving the boat?
As a former US Navy officer, I always considered this a serious challenge for any good officer. Training helps, but it takes time, increases fatigue, and adds to workload. Training helps in the long run but potentially leads to mistakes in the short term. Maintenance, similarly, is absolutely essential, but again it contributes to fatigue. You have to know when to defer maintenance and accept some equipment out of commission for a longer period than absolutely necessary in order to ensure crew rest - or know when you have to accept crew fatigue as the price of restoring critical equipment.
Everything necessary or desirable for readiness also adds to workload, and eventually that workload gets to the point where bad things happen. Balance is one of the many things that a good officer (or in other environments a manager, coach, or principal) must learn. As an officer, I tried for balance, and as an employer I did the same.
The article covered EVERYTHING EXCEPT possible crew incompetence and/or negligence. These may have been “unintended” deaths resulting from pursuing goals of social justice warriors.
I find the “stretched too thin” excuse really insulting to our great Navy. These ships are not even operating in war zones. Nobody’s shooting at them and they’re not shooting at anybody either.
At this point, they can’t even sail from point A to point B, in completely peaceful waters, without running into stuff and killing their own sailors. There is something waaaay more wrong with the Navy than “stretched too thin.”
Does it cost a lot to have look outs checking for other ships getting ready to T-Bone your ship? I’m not an expert sailor but I always look out for other boats when I take my little fishing boat out on the water.
Active Duty ping.
I haven’t read the article and probably wont, but the reality of the situation is that competence and capability are no longer the metric for promotions within the US Navy.
Compliance with SJW PCism is.
Wow! Didn't see that coming. \sarc off
The USS Jacksonville submarine collided with a fishing boat in the Strait of Hormuz a couple years back. Fortunately it just broke off the sub’s periscope. Navy needs to fix their problems.
Obama had DoD focused on transvestites?!
BS, any able bodied seaman could have avoided the collision. Basic seamanship, the entire article is BS.
Fewer ships, less money, greater workload equals worn out men and machines. Accidents are an entirely predictable result.
It takes chutzpah to blame a failure of basic seamanship on the need for more taxpayer dollars. Sounds right out of the military-industrial complex lobbying playbook. Maybe we should spend more on the Navy. But before we blame these collisions on that, why not first look at the leadership aboard these two ships. Was Sanchez the right man for captain or could the Navy have chosen someone better? How was he selected and did diversity play a role?