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.
We won all those wars without it? But today we can’t navigate a stretch of ocean? When I see ww1and ww2 footage, I see uneducated men who were in non combat jobs squaring their shoulders and facing difficult times. The infestations of lice and all manner of nasty, dirty warfare.
Just wierd. Our standards and our expectations have sunk to a low that is scary, as a civilization.
since when did competency require a certification?
If you work on a warship, a destroyer, then surely you have the competency and the training? No?
You are saying we put warships out to sea without competent folks? I know there is a clear difference between competency and excellence. That requires a lot of intangibles.
Navigating the ocean seems like a 101 skill in the Navy.. on a destroyer, maybe it’s a 301. Are you saying we put the 101 guys out there? On a muti Billion dollar destroyer? That’s how I see it.