Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?

[Randy Daytona]

Who could have imagined* that, if left to its own devices, the private sector would choose not to do things that are not as profitable but are nevertheless in the national interest? And that in the long run, we would suffer as a result?

* Besides every economist, to say nothing of people with common sense

The point was that this shipbuilding industry, critical to national security, was protected by subsidies until President Reagan left it to die.

Subsidies , tariffs and whatever else is necessary should be used to return critical industries back to the US and override the economists and free traders.

 

[Dontcallmegump]

I'm not the SECNAV, CNO, or SECDEF.

But the fact that divisions with 5x the manning of submarines 'close' from 1000-1400 is taxpayer robbery.

The GRGB pay issue resulted in a lot of daggers thrown at incompetent YN.

If you think the Navy needs a culture shift.... well, you don't want people lifting up that piece of slate. Standby for more working hours.

My conclusion on why everything is so half assed, is because a good chunk of people are half assing everything. At least at the lower levels.

I'd love to see a culture shift away from "not my problem" or people who do the bare minimum, follow the letter of the procedure or whatever and then call it a day. Just give a damn and make sure you've done what you can to make it right.

I cant believe we cant do a lot better with the people and resources we have, just by having some pride in our work and wanting to do the best we can. The sum total of shrugs and willful incompetence is the rot we see taking a toll.

Novel stuff for sure, but im so tired of everything being coated by a malaise of shit.