The absolute STATE of the US Navy

>>34938066
>The sink or swim model worked okay when junior officers tended to be very smart. But today’s Navy is obsessed with “diversity” which of course means not white and male. Racial diversity is stressed but women retention numbers are *really* important. Since the non-prior enlisted SWO female retention rate (beyond the initial 5 year commitment) is something like 9% (prior-E officers tend to stay in since they are probably half-way to their 20 year retirement) it appears that the manpower folks have made the conscious decision to assess too many officers in the hopes of bringing in more women.

>*The result is that I have too many junior officers on my ship.* I cannot offer sufficient time for each of them to adequately learn the various watchatanding positions. For me this is exacerbated by having been in a 15+ month maintenance period during which the officers’ career clocks kept ticking. Regardless, the surface Navy has chosen, in its diversity fetish, to bring in JOs that are not smart enough to pick up the required skills on their own. They need formal training, but those training opportunities are increasingly rare because of the disproportionately large number of JOs onboard.

>So while it might turn out that the bridge team on JSM at the time of collision looked like the cover of a JCrew catalogue, the Navy policy of bringing in too many officers in order to cast a wider diversity net has the effect of straining an already suspect training approach to the breaking point.

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>>34938077
>For me, I face the problem of what to do with my JOs who can’t make it. I certainly can’t non-attain all of them, because that would mean getting rid of four black officers, including 3 black females, and I know that I won’t be allowed to do that. So I’ll have to qualify them, which means they’ll go to their second ship with the expectation that they know what they are doing. And until then I’ll have to assume the responsibility for their mistakes when they stand watch at night while I try to sleep. And make no mistake, I will be accountable for their actions just like my friends in command of FTZ and JSM are held to account.

>I could go on forever, but it’s important to remember that for a JO, watchstanding is just one part of a large, complicated qualification process that also stresses the Navy’s Byzantine admin and supply systems, material readiness, preventative maintenance procedures (PMS is a near religious obsession with the Navy, and the paperwork associated with it is complex), and in-port duties. Most JOs work 60+ hours a week in port, not including overnight duty which typically occurs every 4 days.

>Underway, all that work happens with the context of 5 hours on, 10 hours off watch rotations that leave little time for sleep. It’s a pressure cooker and what made it work before, barely, was that most JOs were really smart and didn’t need much time to pick things up. But the larger number of JOs coupled with less underway time (except for Japan-based ships) and with more diversity-hires who tend not to be as talented, the SWO training model has reached a breaking point.

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>>34938066
No, it's 'old man yells at cloud' bullshit and factually incorrect.

>>34938110
t. diversity hire

Former hm here. all the dumbfucks stay in, anyone smart about faces reallll quick