04-21-2020, 09:19 AM
(04-20-2020, 05:08 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: … If the sailors realize they are expendable even in peacetime, we finally get rid of the ones who see their jobs as sinecures, and get to replace them with people who understand they are risking their lives to serve their country - yes, even in peacetime. For the Navy, especially, very few of its jobs are exclusively wartime jobs, and it's about time the fair weather sailors who don't realize that get replaced.
Spoken like one who never served a day himself. Military service is predicated on the idea that the soldiers/sailors/airmen/marines commit their all, and the opposite is also true: that the military has their backs. When that shared trust fails, mass exodus is the typical result. This entire event was totally unnecessary and counterproductive. When retired 4-stars like GEN McChrystal and ADM Stavridis are willing to say so in public, that tells the tale.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.
