"DoJ Notified of Suspected Faulty Welds on Subs, Aircraft Carriers at Newport News Shipbuilding."
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Of course there are faulty welds. Why wouldn't there not be? Its 2024. We can NO LONGER "provide for the common defense..."
Someday relatively soon someone's just going to eat our lunch and there will not be a damn thing we can do about it. Shame on you Newport News Ship Building & shame on you Big Navy for letting things spiral out of control this badly. You saw it coming at least 20 years ago and yet you did nothing but punt that ball downfield.
Instead, you embraced political bread & circuses when you should have been looking after the short/long term health of your Service and developing your Rank-and-File professionally instead of ideologically. For 20 years now, key players chose to pander to insufferable grifters and gas-lighters who do not know the difference between Martial Excellence and Marshall Tucker.
Fast Forward: You forced out 2,000 Sailors because they refused the jab, & then you preached twisted, DEI infused garbage to those who remained. To add insult to injury you embraced every fringe political whimsy - like the drag-queen - simply to gain brownie points on a scoreboard no one was keeping track of.
While you were publicly posturing and obfuscating from the Proud Tower to justify sycophantic decisions, you had others chasing windmills, dancing with the Devil, and renaming all the bad ships, all the while ignoring the LSO. This not only allowed your ability to construct, repair, sustain, replenish, maintain and plan for your ships - your force, your reason for existing - to degrade and rot, but your desire to man, equip and train for warfighting was relegated to the back burner. All the while you brushed aside mounting concerns with buzzwords and acronyms and instead, celebrated artificial milestones and leaned whatever way the foul, hot BeltWay hot air blew you. Year after year after year.
Today we do not possess anything like the organic ship building capability that we need. We haven't enough ships to allow the Marines to function per Title 10 USC. We don't even have enough crews for the ships that work to act as deterrents in the needed waters. We no longer possess the resident expertise to fix ships correctly when they break, nor do we have the industrial capacity to provide spare parts. We're laying up support ships at the rapid rate because decades of bad/stupid decisions were left unpunished.
And worst of all, you all but abandoned time honored promotion and advancement regimens based on meritocracy. Instead you embraced unofficial quotas infused with DEI metrics and checks-in-the-box that had little or nothing to do with Merit or Leadership Ability. The results became your new standard bearers; your willing contributions to the twin deities of mediocrity and hyperbole. All the while the actual Members in Good Standing of the Profession of Arms were encouraged to leave.
Time to make some tough calls Big Navy.