A sailor’s life: Overworked, undertrained, understaffed, stressed out

by Jamie McIntyre February 24, 2022

A new GAO report on Navy ship maintenance is a recruiter’s worst nightmare. It depicts the harsh realities of life on U.S. Navy ships from the enlisted sailor’s perspective — working 16-hour days, patching together obsolete equipment, cannibalizing other ships for repair parts, serving on ships that are understaffed with sailors who are overworked or under trained.

The Feb. 8 report from the Government Accountability Office follows another GAO report released last May that concluded the Navy routinely assigns fewer crew members than required to ships and found in the four years between 2016 and 2020 that crew shortfalls nearly doubled, increasing from 8% to 15%.

Add to that more than 85% of officers who report they don’t get the recommended seven hours of sleep a day during deployments, with two-thirds getting five hours or less, and it’s a prescription for burnout........To Read More....

 My Take - So what exactly is DOD Secretary Austin doing about this?  He's weeding out the "white supremacists" and anyone who won't take these experimental drugs for covid. 

What could possibly go wrong?  

 

So the Navy is crumbling, and admittedly, the Brits did beat our Marines in an exercise - half way through the exercise - and our Air Force is facing the same problems, as the Navy, and we're expecting our military to to face down Russia and China?  Absolutely!!!!  Here's all it takes.   A picture or two of Biden eating ice cream, which will scare the pants off them, and getting rid of all the "deplorables" in our services, and everything will be just fine.  Ya see, in these new modern military minds numbers don't count, competence doesn't count, good equipment doesn't count and sufficient maintenance doesn't count.  Only diversity, inclusion and equity counts.  Boy, knowing that..... I really feel safe now. 

What could possibly go wrong?