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The correct answer in that case is to go to the Inspector General. That's what they're there for. Leaders sweeping shit under the rug that ends up crippling a
by psunavy03 2y ago
The correct answer in that case is to go to the Inspector General. That's what they're there for. Leaders sweeping shit under the rug that ends up crippling a fleet asset and preventing tasking from higher is precisely the kind of negligence and incompetence the IG is designed to root out.
And I say that as a retired officer.
- richie-guix 2y agoHow long retired? Things have gone in what can only be described as an.. incomprehensible unfathomable direction in the last decade or so. Parent post is not surprising in the least. Politics is seeping where it doesn't belong. I am very worried.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoTell us more... what has happened?
- richie-guix 2y agoTo a first approximation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZB7xEonjsc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZB7xEonjsc Less funny in real life. Sometimes the jizzless thing falls off with impeccably bad timing. Right when things go boom. People get injured (no deaths yet). Limp home early. Allies let down. Shipping routes elongate by a sad multiple. And it even affects you directly as you pay extra for that Dragon silicon toy you ordered from China.
- dontlikeyoueith 2y agoJust google the Red Hill failure. The Navy's careerist, bureaucratic incompetence is staggering. No better than Putin's generals who looted the military budget and crippled his army so they couldn't even beat a military a fraction of their size.
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- psunavy03 2y agoRecently. For those who've served, it's not a surprise to see the constant drumbeat of commanding officers being relieved of command every month or so. COs are not bulletproof, and the last thing anyone in the seat wants is to end up crossways with the IG. And there are confidential ways Sailors can get in touch with them if needed. Or with their Member of Congress, who can also go to Big Navy and ask "WTF is going on with my constituent?"
- CoastalCoder 2y agoHonest question: what are the plausible outcomes for an engineer who reports this kind of issue to the IG? I'm guessing there's a real possibility of it ending his career, at least as a member of the military.
- banku_brougham 2y agoI seriously believe what I've heard about upwards failure. Being competent seems to be an impediment, and the goons at the very top are ludicrously malformed people.
- willcipriano 2y agoThe incompetent group together, they have to in order to survive. The competent don't group together, they don't need to. They can take care of themselves. The former uses their power as a group against the individuals in the latter. Basically the plot of Atlas Shrugged.
- conradolandia 2y agoAtlas Shrugged? The book written by that demented woman who couldn't deal with her own feelings but told everyone how individualism was the answer to everything while living thanks to other people's support? That book?
- willcipriano 2y agoYeah the one were people attack the author rather than the idea because they aren't competent enough to do so.
- psunavy03 2y agoObjectivism: that fart-huffing philosophy that leads people to think everyone else is incompetent to judge it, when it's just a bunch of hateful trash that is to the right as Marxism is to the left.