04-21-2020, 12:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-21-2020, 12:43 PM by Warren Dew.)
(04-21-2020, 09:19 AM)David Horn Wrote:(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.
Speak for yourself, civvie. I served through most of the 1980s, when it was nominally peacetime, but we treated it as wartime. You would never have seen something like a carrier CO's internal memo with sensitive operational data leaked to the press back then. Thanks to that plus good national leadership at the time, we were ultimately rewarded with victory in the Cold War.
Unfortunately, through the 1990s, the military switched to a lax peacetime attitude. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have largely corrected this in the Army, but the Air Force and the Navy continue to tolerate a weak attitude. That needs to be fixed so the Navy can again attend to its mission, which includes more peacetime than wartime obligations.
