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I'm not willing to accept this moral panic at face value. The appearance by itself doesn't matter except for on the parade grounds and in boot camp. Better indi
by JoeyBananas 4y ago
I'm not willing to accept this moral panic at face value. The appearance by itself doesn't matter except for on the parade grounds and in boot camp. Better indicators of systemic issues would be the frequency of leaks, annual costs of maintenance, numbers of ships, etc. Give me something more convincing than 1 photo of a rusty deck.
- jakear 4y agoUS Navy has (in part) lost ability to put out fires on its ships. It used to be that Damage Control was the pride of a crew. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/15/politics/navy-uss-bonhomme-richard-punishments/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/15/politics/navy-uss-bonhomme-ri...
- ren_engineer 4y agoI'd say the fact the people in the Navy saw nothing wrong with this photo and posted it to Facebook is a signal of a deep issue. Their decision making is so bad they didn't even realize the optics of this photo. And if you can't keep your ships in good shape during peace time, what's going to happen if we actually get into a real war? the only way you could justify it was that maybe they knew people would get upset and it might bring some public attention on leadership to fix things?