Nancy is pissed ...
On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 17:27:05 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote: You fellas act as if there was something special about military service. You are the one who suggested the military might be an answer to the welfare and hard core unemployment problem. |
Nancy is pissed ...
|
Nancy is pissed ...
On 10/16/2017 7:03 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/16/17 12:04 AM, wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 17:27:05 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: You fellas act as if there was something special about military service. You are the one who suggested the military might be an answer to the welfare and hard core unemployment problem. And you think that makes it special? I know we need a strong military, but I think we spend way too much on it and we don't seem to be training the forces sufficiently on the basics. As an example, consider the ****-ups of the navy the last few years with incompetent ship handling and the inability of ground forces to successfully wage conventional warfare that results in the defeat of an enemy. We have all the latest and greatest technology, and the military loves to show it off, but those really expensive doo-dads don't seem to be of much use in current-day Iraq, Syria, and, of course, Afghanistan. As an aside, I've always thought freshly churned naval officers should spend the first six months of their service running small boats and learning, to borrow from Chapman, Piloting, Seamanship, and Small Boat Handling, and by that I mean hands on, NOT telling an enlisted man what to do. After that, the officers can start working their way up to larger ships. I don't see how you can be the watch officer without knowing precisely how your ship handles and where it is at all times on the space-time continuum. They do Harry, not only on smaller craft, but on ships that are between regular deployment cycles. As midshipmen at the Naval Academy part of their education is to spend some time on an active duty ship at sea. It's the only time the enlisted crew can bark out orders to the midshipmen as they experience and learn what the various ship evolutions involve. One of the ships I was on conducted one of these 2 week training cruises for midshipmen. It was great fun to watch how many were "manning the rail", barking at the fish when underway in the north Atlantic in the winter. |
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 03:45 PM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004 - 2014 BoatBanter.com