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A follow up to my post from yesterday on the Navy’s incredibly hellish OPTEMPO. An article appeared on the US Naval Institute Web site by a LTJG who is currently “living the dream” that is the Navy’s nightmare deployment schedule. I know a person who knows him and describes him
I am a reader of Duffleblog, and in today’s topsy turvy world, while they are supposed to be satire – they approach the truth to a much closer degree than they care to admit. You should know I am talking about the story in The Atlantic where Jeffery Goldberg reminded
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Work has been a bit of a nuisance this week. It’s kept me from getting to a lengthy post I am working on about our boy, the orange monster. But in the meantime, you can take some time to read about the train wreck that is happening to the Navy.
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While I have never been a part of the cult of James Mattis, I do, nonetheless, respect him, and I respect his judgment. For the last few months or so, I have been waiting with increasing disappointment for him to speak out against the malice and incompetence of the orange
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Ok, it has been a few days between the events surrounding USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71). There has been a lot posted about the decision made to fire the CO, CAPT Crozier. To be blunt, a lot of those thoughts are utter bullshit. Posted below are some reasons why. Generally, the
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Eight years ago, I wrote a series of posts regarding the Navy’s imbalance in its flag officer community. The problem then, as it is now, is that the Navy has too many flag officers. It has more flag officers than it has ships. I pointed out then that the issue
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It’s Thursday again, and time to post one of my older posts – this one from 5 years ago. What prompted it was reading this article on another forum. I don’t think the root logic has changed. The military, by definition, cannot be a “family friendly employer.” Enjoy. Well, it’s
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I took most of this past week off, primarily because I was not very motivated, and that lack of motivation will continue into the New Year. Of that I am quite confident. The Christmas holiday was pretty much as I expected with the S.O. doing her best to go through
Continue readingThe news was pretty well saturated over the last couple of weeks. What with Charlottesville, the firing ( well-deserved) of Steve Bannon, the collision of USS John McCain and President Trumps incredibly tone-deaf responses to all of those happenings, you may not have had a chance to notice this little tidbit
Continue readingIf you have been a long time reader here, you will know that one of my pet peeves is that the Navy has more flag officers than it has ships. A few years ago I picked a fight with one of the Naval Institute’s “preferred customers” on this very subject. Well, it took
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