US Navy Issues
Discussions focus on criticisms of the US Navy's operational competence, including manpower shortages, ship collisions, loss of basic seamanship skills, and references to articles about systemic failures.
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navy doesn't seem to care (see USS Ford)
It’s the Navy, they can afford it ;)
Reminds me of the article “Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships”https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/08/27/navy-swo...
Especially when you don't have a real navy.
unless you're the US Navy...
The US Navy seems to be able to do it
Sure seems like the US Navy has lost track of some basic skills.
Probably not. Symptoms of system failure.> As of late last year, the Navy was lacking nearly 14,000 enlisted sailors to keep its aircraft carriers, surface ships and attack submarines properly manned, according to the GAO.> The watchdog also found that aircraft carriers, cruisers and amphibious assault ships did not have enough enlisted sailors assigned to them to meet requirements for safe operations as laid out by the Navy Manpower Analysis Center.<a href="https://www.
Thanks for the correction, I'd be interested to read more about their navy doing this.
hopefully the navy isn't superstitious.