Are coming home to roost…
One has to wonder what is going on inside the U.S. Navy. A recent survey of U.S. Navy personnel delivered sobering news to out-going Obama Navy leadership. In arresting phrases, the September 2016 survey found that sailors are āincreasingly unhappy with lengthy deployments, high operational tempo, and calls to reduce pay and benefits,ā and not interested in being pawns on a political correctness chessboard. That is not what they signed up for.
Complete article HERE, from the Washington Examiner.
When you cut operational forces, lengthen deployments, INCREASE operational requirements and play social engineering, it’s no wonder the sailors are frustrated…
Throw in a lack of maintenance funding across the board (aviation, ship, submarines), you have less assets to meet the OPTEMPO requirements. This leads to marginally qualified units having to deploy on short notice or radically shift turnaround schedules. Add in additional training requirements that are mutually exclusive, cut the underway days, cut the ‘good deal’ trips/ports and it only gets worse.
In the air community, some squadrons are back to ‘tri-sites’ that may be half a world apart. Hard to maintain any sense of community or squadron pride when you’re scattered to hell and gone, flying your asses off, with major restrictions on liberty time/locations.
Frankly, I’m surprised its taken this long to percolate up. I hope Trump comes through on the promise to get the military funding and personnel back up. If he doesn’t, America is in trouble…
