Navy, Pentagon covered up fleet complaints

Navy ignored warnings about lack of training, too many missions, fleet morale. Seventeen sailors died.

“If you're an admiral in the Navy, … you may have to make that decision to send people into combat, and you better not have blood on your hands the rest of your life because you didn't do everything you could in peacetime to make them ready.” – Adm. Thomas Copeman

https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/us-navy-crashes-japan-cause-mccain/

Link at https://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=85111

Navy leadership sold out to keep careers

Why fast naval combat ships run into slow commercial vessels.

“First, there was a failure by the nation and particularly the executive branch of the government to recognize that by using the armed forces as a social change agent, as well as denying them the tools (forces) to do the job, will always cause the forces to break. We are at the breaking point and it shows.”

http://neveryetmelted.com/2017/09/24/why-the-us-navy-keeps-running-into-merchant-ships/