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RobertC said:

The navalists at CDR Salamander weigh in with

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Apologies for the lengthy on-ramp to the final conclusion.

PS if you have the time reading the comments is useful.

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You can almost hear the complaints about diversity and pronouns raging from those losers as they type furiously on their keyboards!

Has anyone sat down to talk to the crews and commanding officers in public and get their opinion on what is causing these issues? How do they feel about the rust, what do they believe can be done about it? Are they being given the proper resources and time to address these issues?

Some people just immediately jump to conclusions that the crews lack respect, or are lazy and so there is never an open conversation to get the full picture.

Has there been a change in policy regarding the painting of USN ships?. I remember being told they were supposed to be repainted regularly during deployments by the crew.

SlothmanAllen said:

You can almost hear the complaints about diversity and pronouns raging from those losers as they type furiously on their keyboards!

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Lol, the Navy is advertising to diversity because they do not have enough personnel.

Armed forces typically recruit from poorer demographics, which tend to be White and African-American. They have also historically (and currently) discriminated against homosexuals, women, people of color, and basically everyone who isn't straight and white.

We are finally at a point where US Armed Forces are willingly inviting people they used to hate, not because of "wokeness", but because they realized that they cannot fill their recruitment needs without broadening their appeal. Especially in places like the Navy and Air Forces, where you will have a much higher ratios of specialized or educated personnel. Jobs that your typical grunt fuck-ups cannot easily fill. Which means pandering to the politics of households that are more liberal, more educated, and more affluent.

If you actually talk to the people who serve in the military (many of my friends do), you'll realize that the military is all about tradition, non-wokeness, and generally being a relatively exclusive club that's entirely committed towards furthering American goals. The military hates being an instrument of social change and will actively resist anything that rocks the boat.

The new generation of American leadership has to contend with the fact that the military needs to change, while fighting the inherent organizational inertia, and conservative culture within the armed forces. They don't have an easy task, and in my opinion, this will be one of the contributing reasons why we will lose in the Pacific.

HighGround said:

Lol, the Navy is advertising to diversity because they do not have enough personnel.

The new generation of American leadership has to contend with the fact that the military needs to change, while fighting the inherent organizational inertia, and conservative culture within the armed forces. They don't have an easy task, and in my opinion, this will be one of the contributing reasons why we will lose in the Pacific.

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Here in Canada, they are losing personnel because of the influx of people that would not be supposed to be there and make their job dangerous on the front. Yes you can be full inclusive, but a 135lbs fit woman is not able to do the same thing than a 220lbs fit man... Also all the people using medication and operations for sex change bringing an incredible amount of medical problems with them. New regulation permitting long hair, jewellery, piercing, etc... You want to be in the trench with someone arguing for new rules to protect their make-up and nails in the army ?

New generation of armed forces are transforming uniformity to a bag full of crabs.

Atomicfrog said:

Here in Canada, they are losing personnel because of the influx of people that would not be supposed to be there and make their job dangerous on the front. Yes you can be full inclusive, but a 135lbs fit woman is not able to do the same thing than a 220lbs fit man... Also all the people using medication and operations for sex change bringing an incredible amount of medical problems with them. New regulation permitting long hair, jewellery, piercing, etc... You want to be in the trench with someone arguing for new rules to protect their make-up and nails in the army ?

New generation of armed forces are transforming uniformity to a bag full of crabs.

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Canada's attrition rate is low, and has not significantly changed. Checking the facts, it's "record" high attrition rate of 9.3% is only a couple points higher than its historical average of 7-8%, and the uptick is much more likely being influenced by the after-effects of the pandemic, rather than a change in piercing regulations.

Staffing shortages aren't unique to Canada anyway. Most Western militaries face challenges in funding and staffing.

Someone already posted this in Breaking News, putting it in here for filing purposes.

Pentagon loses a million F-35 parts​

Investigators have found that the US military can’t account for missing fighter-jet components valued at $85 million


A US service member checks over an F-35 fighter jet during a press tour of the USS Makin Island on March 23 in Busan, South Korea.

The US Department of Defense (DOD) has been unable to account for about 1 million missing spare parts for its F-35 Lightning II fighter jet, the costliest weapon system in the nation’s history, a government review has found.

The lost parts, which include such items as bolts, tires, and landing gear, are valued at about $85 million, the (GAO) reported on Tuesday. Since 2018, the Pentagon has reviewed the circumstances surrounding only 2% of identified parts losses.

“Without DOD taking steps to ensure that these spare parts are accountable under a contract, the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) will be unable to either gain or maintain accountability over these spare parts and will not have data, such as locations, costs, and quantities, needed for financial reporting or to ensure that government interests are protected,” the GAO said.

The spare parts are stored around the world for use on the F-35 by the US military and allied nations that have purchased the aircraft, which is made by defense contractor Lockheed Martin. Because the Pentagon’s F-35 JPO lacks a process for tracking losses, Lockheed Martin hasn’t reported on over 900,000 additional spare parts valued at more than $66 million for review, the GAO said.

The GAO’s report marks just the latest black eye for the $1.7 trillion F-35 program, which has been plagued by reliability struggles, including an issue with engine vibration that led to a global recall order in March. Only about 30% of America’s F-35 fleet is “fully mission capable” on any given day. US Air Force Lieutenant General Michael Schmidt warned last month that a thin supply of spare parts could jeopardize the ability of American forces to keep the aircraft in service during the country’s next major war.

The GAO report blamed the parts losses partly on the Pentagon’s failure to oversee components that are owned by the DOD and managed by contractors. DOD officials and the contractors haven’t reached an agreement on whether the parts should be categorized as government-furnished property, which hinders the processing of lost inventories.

As of last October, the Pentagon had over 19,000 spare parts globally that had been awaiting disposition instructions from the F-35 JPO – for as long as five years in some cases. The GAO said the DOD agreed with its four recommendations on beefing up accounting for the parts pool.

Atomicfrog said:

Also all the people using medication and operations for sex change bringing an incredible amount of medical problems with them.

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How many of those people are there exactly lol?

Also how does long hair or piercing determine if you are a worthy soldier?

HighGround said:

Canada's attrition rate is low, and has not significantly changed. Checking the facts, it's "record" high attrition rate of 9.3% is only a couple points higher than its historical average of 7-8%, and the uptick is much more likely being influenced by the after-effects of the pandemic, rather than a change in piercing regulations.

Staffing shortages aren't unique to Canada anyway. Most Western militaries face challenges in funding and staffing.

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Attrition and quality are two different things... You want a 140 lbs antiwar trans woke man recruit with kutex that want is own bathroom replacing an hardened veteran soldier that would have stayed in the military 10 years longer ? Nice to have woman too, but between 25 and 30 half of them are on maternity leaves...

Right now you have attrition in quantity and quality and also soldiers on paper that cannot be used.

SlothmanAllen said:

How many of those people are there exactly lol?

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More than you think because all operations fees are paid by the military in Canada, enough to make seasonned soldiers to leaves because of lacks of thrust...the biggest problem is that. Also good recruits are quitting because of all the nonsense.

Atomicfrog said:

Attrition and quality are two different things... You want a 140 lbs antiwar trans woke man recruit with kutex that want is own bathroom replacing an hardened veteran soldier that would have stayed in the military 10 years longer ? Nice to have woman too, but between 25 and 30 half of them are on maternity leaves...

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I think you're arguing about moral panic and "standards" dropping because you don't like the politics of the people who push for more diversity in the armed forces.

I have my own politics but I try hard not to let it cloud my judgement. Face it, over 10% of CAF are women. US is at over 20% in some areas, and above 10% in most. You can complain about the fact that women are weaker, that trans people make you uncomfortable, or that we should all stick to regulation style haircuts.

But what you're missing is that your choice isn't between a 10 year hardened military veteran, and a blue haired, male-to-female-to-male-to non-binary trans person with long hair and piercings in unconventional places.

Your choices are between having 10,000 fewer personnel, or 10,000 more. The military is choosing more, because it needs more. Not because the leftist mafia won. I also just think that this panic over unfit soldiers serving in the military is just that, panic, driven by people who's political interests favor raising that panic.