Reply With QuoteMAGA MAN (05-19-2022)
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US Navy desertions more than double in last year
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ract-rcna28516Navy desertions have more than doubled amid suicide concerns, as sailors feel trapped by contracts
MAGA MAN (05-19-2022)
ButterMilk Man
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The Navy is so fucked.....they plan to scrap a bunch of boats that are almost brand new because they are useless shit, it is increasingly looking like the new carrier will never work, the shipyards are just completely fucked and no one in the swamp as the desire or the competence apparently to fix them, their officers are likely the worst in the military which is saying something.....
The Navy is not going to save us, put that thought out of your head.
I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.
DARK AGES SUCK!
dukkha (05-19-2022)
ButterMilk Man
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You want to understand why the Chinese are so confident?
Take a close look at the US Navy.
I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.
DARK AGES SUCK!
ButterMilk Man
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I warned you, I have been on the alarms bout this for a lot of years.
I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.
DARK AGES SUCK!
ButterMilk Man
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The US Navy, desperately trying to figure out how to prevent boats from being burned into scrap in its shipyards.
We are soooo fucked.
I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.
DARK AGES SUCK!
ButterMilk Man
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The US Navy, where competent basic navigation is a challenge, one which is sometimes lost (USS Connecticut et al).
I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.
DARK AGES SUCK!
ButterMilk Man
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Our Navy:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/craigho...h=b95a2942c707New Scandal Reveals Pattern Of U.S. Navy Disregard For Junior Sailors
I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.
DARK AGES SUCK!
ButterMilk Man
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Betrayal, look at how it is everywhere now.
This happened because we suck, because we failed.
I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.
DARK AGES SUCK!
ButterMilk Man
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This son of a bitch is going down (America).
I suggest that you prepare for impact.
I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.
DARK AGES SUCK!
Never Again
Among a fleet of more than 342,000 active sailors, there were 157 new Navy deserters in 2021Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner
that is 0.00045% of the fleet
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— Golda Meir
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ButterMilk Man
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https://www.maritime-executive.com/a...-its-shipyardsGAO: U.S. Navy Will Have to Spend Far More on its Shipyards
They have been refusing to run quality shipyards for at least a couple decades....is something going to change?
You can wake me.
I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.
DARK AGES SUCK!
ButterMilk Man
JPP Contributor
You forgot your point along the way.
R U Always this lazy?
I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.
DARK AGES SUCK!
Honoring my oath
Jesus, what a bunch of light weights. Contracts have been the system since the 80s.
Military law experts said the nearly unbreakable contracts — which can require up to six years of active duty — leave sailors with extreme alternatives: die by suicide or flee and face harsh consequences, including spending years behind bars as patriots-turned-pariahs.
“They feel trapped,” said Lenore Yarger, a resource counselor with the GI Rights Hotline, a nonprofit nongovernmental group that specializes in military discharges.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
gemini104104 (05-21-2022), Guno צְבִי (05-20-2022)
Honoring my oath
Agreed. Still, it's double from the previous year and the suicide thing is troubling. Agreed it's a small problem, but it's still a problem.
IMO, the Navy needs to screen their people better. Better to be one short than to recruit a problem child.
Guno צְבִי (05-20-2022)
Althea told me...........
No surprise. As the article states, many were young. Some (maybe all) were probably subjected to a hard sell by a recruiter while still in high school. Promises of trips to faraway lands where exoctic women love sailors.
Then they get to live on a floating sewer for months on end. It's more like a prison than living quarters.
The only option is suicide or AWOL. There is no funding for mental health
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Guno צְבִי (05-20-2022)
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