Category: Navy
The long and sharp decline
How a worthless bastard like Pete Hegseth is destroying military education. A lot of people do not realize that our piece of shit SecDef is actively working to destroy higher education in the Armed Forces. He’s doing it on several levels: 1) Ruining the service academies by censoring what academics
Continue readingThere is a difference between support and enabling reckless, lawless behavior.
Why colluding with Israeli aggression is a bad idea. Many years ago, I participated in a wargame whose primary thesis was – what happens if Israel acts unilaterally and drags us into a war not of our own choosing. Turns out it was prophetic. The premise of the game was
Continue readingGood people are many times, anything but.
One story of a man who did terrible emotional damage to someone and never suffered for it. A story of how someone else’s squadron mate was really a terrible person.
Continue readingRight, but for all the wrong reasons.
Yes, the US has too many generals and admirals, but Hegseth is not the man to fix that. Our inept Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has stated that he wants to cut 20% of the four-star officer positions and 10% of the rest of the general and flag officer community. I am
Continue readingWill the Navy learn the lessons it needs to?
Despite all the blowback from folks in certain circles and the continued whining of the surgeaholics, I remain firm in my conviction that getting the hell out of Afghanistan was the right thing to do. Most of the objections to the policy decision have no factual basis anyways – and
Continue readingBe careful what you wish for….
For you may surely get it. This morning, on my way into work, I heard a story on NPR about the Congressional effort by Kirsten Gillibrand to pass legislation to take the power of prosecuting sexual assault cases in the military out of the hands of Court Martial Convening authorities
Continue readingFollow up
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
Continue readingNothing short of a crime.
Amidst all of the recent political news in the United States, a few Navy related headlines from defense trade papers may have escaped your attention. However, you really should pay attention to them. Your Navy, MY Navy, for which I gave decades of service, is being ground into the dirt.
Continue readingStop the presses!
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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