Proactively “From the Sea”; an agent of change leveraging the littoral best practices for a paradigm breaking six-sigma best business case to synergize a consistent design in the global commons, rightsizing the core values supporting our mission statement via the 5-vector model through cultural diversity.
Fifty-seven percent of Americans ages 18 to 25 are opposed to racial preferences playing a role in college admissions or hiring decisions, according to a recent poll of members of the Millennial Generation.
Only 9 percent of respondents said such programs are appropriate to make up for past discrimination, while 28 percent agreed that they are justified to increase diversity on a college campus or in the workplace, the survey found.
I've been telling you for years - time is on my side.
LCS precom USS Milwaukee suffers a cataclysmic dry-dock
accident while the crew attends a week-long Equal Opportunity and Sexual
Assault training session. NEOO personnel take the incident as a sign
they are successfully exposing recalcitrant vessels and crews.
To get the full details from CIMSEC, click here. Of course - from the actual farce to the present satire - it isn't too far of a stretch. .... and yes, the Salamander nods knowing that yet another bit of the reality based community is about sick of the (D)iversity Bullies' BS.
From a little side-bar I was having with our buddy Galrahn - we wandered in the Royal Navy's VERY retro sounding Joint Concept Note 1/12: Future 'Black Swan' Class Sloop-of-War: A Group System. OK, the only retro use is "Sloop-of-War" - which I fully support. It ain't a corvette ... and it is almost more like the exceptionally poorly named LCS.
Read the whole thing - but without picking it apart all over the place - right or wrong I like some of the intellectual work behind it.
The Brits have done some good, modest, and reasonable intellectual ponderings;
"122. The UK needs affordable solutions to deliver a balanced fleet. It requires the agility to adjust to an uncertain future where it is not known precisely, who, where and when, it will be required to fight. It only knows that history has shown that it will be required to fight. Defence, therefore, needs an intellectual and physical agility that is able to deliver this fleet, fit for task. If not, the Navy risks slipping into terminal decline unable to protect the UK’s
vital interests."
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"206. Evolution Rather than Revolution in Maritime Affairs. As the Royal Navy is always in contact, its response to technological change has always demanded an evolution, rather than revolution, in maritime affairs. As one of the major tasks of the Royal Navy is ‘to exert power and influence in support of national political objectives with the aim to prevent conflict by deterring, coercing, stabilising and reassuring others in time of crisis’, the audience needs to believe in that power. It is this interpretation that prevents conflict. A maritime power, such as the UK, would not wish to risk a revolutionary change in its means of applying that power being misinterpreted as a marked reduction in its warfighting capability and/or credibility. Therefore, any change not only needs to deliver improved capability but also requires a clear articulation of its credibility in order to support the primary objective of maritime power: to prevent conflict."
OK, the concept has some typical RN issues (like undergunning) - but I like the intellectual nature of their paper.
Worth your time.
I wasn't in the Navy in the 1970s, but as a young pup I was raised by those who were.
One of the big "never again" takeaways was that our senior leaders cannot let the Fleet get caught in a burn-out death spiral of decreasing funds and increasing requirements.
We did some of this "do more with less" dishonesty in the 1990s and it was ugly enough then. Along those lines - I do not like this at all from the new CFFC's Vision & Guidance.
For the foreseeable future, our operating environment will be defined by four predominant characteristics: (1) decreasing resources, (2) increasing operational demands,
... and your response as a leader is what?
Hold Commanders and Leaders accountable for results
Time to hit this subject again.
.... a 5% saving in a proven technology is something the USN should be at the front of ... not behind.
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries says that it has successfully installed its innovative “Mitsubishi Air Lubrication System” (MALS) for the first time on a ferry and has confirmed over 5% improvement in fuel consumption. The experiment marks the first time the MALS system has been applied on a ship with a slender hull form, meaning a vessel with a relatively small block coefficient (Cb).
MALS is MHI’s proprietary technology that reduces frictional resistance between the ship hull and seawater by introducing a layer of air bubbles blown from the ship’s bottom.
That is one gallon of fuel in 20. Real savings; not pipe-dream props. Don Ho approves.
Should we keep the academies? Maybe there's a place for them, if we can eliminate their worst flaws. The academies attract a certain type of student: hard-charging, military-oriented, with expectations of both physical and mental challenges. But the academies squander that rich resource. If we want to preserve the academies, and can accept the fact that they don't produce better officers than the cheaper routes of ROTC and Officer Candidate School, it should be possible to find a serviceable hull of a military educational institution under all the barnacles.
