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It keeps happening b/c so many people have the same attitude as GP: find scapegoats and fire them! That will fix the systemic problems...right?! No, it won't.
by cle 7y ago
It keeps happening b/c so many people have the same attitude as GP: find scapegoats and fire them! That will fix the systemic problems...right?!
No, it won't.
- vkou 7y agoIt will if the scapegoats are admirals. From my conversation with navy folks, unless a scandal sinks an admiral, the organization does not take it seriously, and will not make any institutional changes.
- cryptonector 7y ago+1 But if the only scapegoats are lower down in the chain then the result will be devastating to morale. The SecNavy has to fire one or more admirals here, and soon.
- frankharv 7y agoAs a yard worker, In some ways I feel sorry for NewportNews Shipyard. These elevators are designs the Navy brought to them. Not something they designed. They built it to spec and it did not work. Now the blame game. As someone above noted, The Navy did not even build a land based prototype. Now whose fault is this mess? I had thought it would be the catapult system that failed. Instead it is too powerful and they are still tuning it. They are worried about the stress on the nose gear. Some birds are still restricted in weight last I heard.
- fock 7y agothe most probable cause is there aren't any contractors available anymore in the US who are able/willing to build such things. This is really sad.
- cle 7y agoIf the systemic mechanisms and incentives haven’t changed, is the problem really solved?
- PaulAJ 7y agoVoltaire: "in this country, it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, in order to encourage the others". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byng#Honorific_eponyms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byng#Honorific_eponyms