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If they didn’t use the system “they would probably be instantly removed from their commands and maybe court martialed” Dumbest shit I’ve read all day. That’s no

If they didn’t use the system “they would probably be instantly removed from their commands and maybe court martialed” Dumbest shit I’ve read all day. That’s not how the Navy works. A captain is given wide latitude in how to run His ship.

BuildTheRobots 4y ago
"A captain is given a wide latitude in how to run Their ship." Though, after a quick google, it seems that the US took until April 2022 (a fortnight ago) to get their first female Captain. I'm slightly agog it's taken so long. https://www.forces.net/services/navy/royal-navy-history-first-female-captain-takes-command-ship https://www.forces.net/services/navy/royal-navy-history-firs...
- rsofaer 4y ago
  That article is about the UK!
- ranger207 4y ago
  That's the UK Royal Navy. According to Wikipedia[0] (which cites a broken link unfortunately) the first female ship captain in the US Navy was LT CDR Darlene Iskra in 1990 commanding the USS _Oppertune_, and CDR Maureen A. Farren was the first to command a combatant ship, the USS _Mount Vernon_ in 1998. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_United_States_Navy#Timeline_of_women_in_the_United_States_Navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_United_States_Nav...
  - BuildTheRobots 4y ago
    Apologies, I'm so used to HN being US centric. Even more reason for Their ship, if the UK has been doing it for 30 years...
    - imwillofficial 4y ago
      HN is US centric because ycombinator and Silicon Valley are in the US.
- hereforphone 4y ago
  Bad bot
  - BuildTheRobots 4y ago
    I wish... my bots are actually capable of parsing information. I, it seems, am not :(
- imwillofficial 4y ago
  Nobody asked you to try to correct my statement.
jsmith45 4y ago
> A captain is given wide latitude in how to run His ship. Sure. On the other hand, an admiral is technically allowed to micromanage the ships under his command. They seldom do because it can lean to needless conflicts, hurt egos, etc. Which tend to make the fleet less effective. On the other hand, this would be a situation where SECNAV would be putting pressure on the admiralty to get this system into operation. I don't think back in the day a captain going "I'm not going to have my men use these new-fangled anti-aircraft weapons" would have gone over very well. Well this is not technically all that different. I do agree that sentence is probably overstating things a fair bit. In practice the captains would likely get pressured into using it by the admiralty, rather than actually removed. And to get court martialed for not using it would realistically require ignoring an order to use the system.
- imwillofficial 4y ago
  Exactly

BuildTheRobots 4y ago

"A captain is given a wide latitude in how to run Their ship." Though, after a quick google, it seems that the US took until April 2022 (a fortnight ago) to get their first female Captain. I'm slightly agog it's taken so long. https://www.forces.net/services/navy/royal-navy-history-first-female-captain-takes-command-ship https://www.forces.net/services/navy/royal-navy-history-firs...

rsofaer 4y ago
That article is about the UK!
ranger207 4y ago
That's the UK Royal Navy. According to Wikipedia[0] (which cites a broken link unfortunately) the first female ship captain in the US Navy was LT CDR Darlene Iskra in 1990 commanding the USS _Oppertune_, and CDR Maureen A. Farren was the first to command a combatant ship, the USS _Mount Vernon_ in 1998. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_United_States_Navy#Timeline_of_women_in_the_United_States_Navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_United_States_Nav...
- BuildTheRobots 4y ago
  Apologies, I'm so used to HN being US centric. Even more reason for Their ship, if the UK has been doing it for 30 years...
  - imwillofficial 4y ago
    HN is US centric because ycombinator and Silicon Valley are in the US.
hereforphone 4y ago
Bad bot
- BuildTheRobots 4y ago
  I wish... my bots are actually capable of parsing information. I, it seems, am not :(
imwillofficial 4y ago
Nobody asked you to try to correct my statement.

jsmith45 4y ago

> A captain is given wide latitude in how to run His ship. Sure. On the other hand, an admiral is technically allowed to micromanage the ships under his command. They seldom do because it can lean to needless conflicts, hurt egos, etc. Which tend to make the fleet less effective. On the other hand, this would be a situation where SECNAV would be putting pressure on the admiralty to get this system into operation. I don't think back in the day a captain going "I'm not going to have my men use these new-fangled anti-aircraft weapons" would have gone over very well. Well this is not technically all that different. I do agree that sentence is probably overstating things a fair bit. In practice the captains would likely get pressured into using it by the admiralty, rather than actually removed. And to get court martialed for not using it would realistically require ignoring an order to use the system.

imwillofficial 4y ago
Exactly