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JayhawkSD

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4. It should not have gotten to this point.
Fri Nov 3, 2017, 10:41 AM
Nov 2017

The lack of training and proper supervision should have been recognized and corrected long before ships were near as dammit sunk and lives were lost. How could they not realize a systemic problem when a crew forgot to refill the main propulsion gearbox with lubricating oil, resulting in a shipyard repair?

This is most certainly not the Navy I served in. Or would want to serve in. This in a Navy that has so little self respect that it doesn't even bother to wear dress uniform when it goes out in public. We would have not been caught dead wearing working uniforms in public, and without hats, no less. Shameful.

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