We just need to make it a land battleship to keep up with Sotoa.
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I hope not! I want to see this abomination sink at it’s christening while everyone and their mums’ news corp is livestreaming that shit!
Fucker obviously doesn't give a shit whether or not such a ship would suit the needs of the modern Navy, or whether it will suit the Navy's needs going forward into a decades-long service life. He just wants a really big boat to put his own name on.
No
When you look at how actual modern fighters work like the F-35, they're taking on targets over the horizon before the targets even know they're being engaged. At that point, what is a fighter but a mobile missile platform? Does being maneuverable matter when your enemy is never going to see you in the first place?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk
The F-117 is primarily an attack aircraft,[1] so its "F" designation is inconsistent with the Department of Defense system. This inconsistency has been repeatedly employed by the USAF with several of its attack aircraft since the late 1950s, including the Republic F-105 Thunderchief and General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark. A televised documentary quoted project manager Alan Brown as saying that Robert J. Dixon, a four-star USAF general who was the head of Tactical Air Command, felt that the top-notch USAF fighter pilots required to fly the new aircraft were more easily attracted to an aircraft with an "F" designation for fighter, as opposed to a bomber ("B") or attack ("A") designation.[45][46]
F/B-21 Raider?
When I was in the US Navy on a long deployment I beat the shit out of multiple people, and I don't mean that in a good way.
The solution for that was I was allowed to talk to a psychiatrist from the German military who happened to be on the ship, because that wouldn't document anything officially.
His advice was it was a six month deployment and would eventually be over. Which honestly is all he could do. I was "essential to ship movement" and he belonged to another countrys military. Super cool dude tho, and talking once a week really did help
But we were in an environment where everything was metal and a fistfight or even grappling could easily become manslaughter...
Hell, within 24 hours of my first time out to sea I picked up two people to break up their fistfight and threw them both acrossthe engine room at the same time, and my next watch a guy pulled a knife on me but I got him to back down.
They truly don't give a fuck, and if worst case scenario had happened I think it would have been covered up as an accident.
Like, engine rooms are always rougher, but I was fighting people 3-4 pay grades above me in sleeping quarters and cafeteria with the "normies" and literally never got in trouble or had anyone in my chain of command even mention it, with the exception of us getting to be able to cut in the chow line after one incident... I was even fucking with officers, both in my chain of command and the random junior ones that wanted to act tough not turning sideways in the narrow hallways.
I was not in a good place mentally, but everyone was fine rolling the dice.
It's been a minute since I was in, but shit like that doesn't change. Because every new generation comes up in the same environment, if they don't like it they don't re-enlist. It's institutional inertia
What happens when the suicidal turns murder then? That's happened on numerous occasions on bases in the states?
Those are the intended consequences...
A suicide makes the command look bad, but so does attempts. So they don't report attempts, and hope the person keeps it together while at that command.
All that matters is the metrics because that's all that goes up the chain of command. So they hide attempts that are hidable, even people saying they're gonna do it. I had a buddy that bought the shotgun, told medical, and they told him to wait two weeks and see if the thoughts went away before he could get any type of treatment.
Like, that was nuclear engineering school and about as bad as it could get, but the command was 100% willing to roll the dice on him not following thru, even tho less than 2 months before that a security guard (also active duty) had blew his brains out with his AR15 5 feet from our training building door.
It's like fight club, there is an acceptable number of deaths, and they did the math and realized a suicidal person would eventually flunk out and that didn't count as a black mark against the command like a suicide did. By their math, it was better to say "X students tried to kill themselves" than "X students had to leave training from the stress of the program".
Because they'd have to fix the amount of stress in training if they were honest about what was really happening
Same shit happens anywhere stress is applied, and that's the whole time someone's out to see.
A reminder that suicide is never the answer.
Especially if you're part of the military. There's bigger fish out there that put you in this situation. And that pain is temporary.
Ah. Yes. There's no way that could have unintended consequences
What happens when service members attempt? Like their careers are obviously over
Nope
Most of the time people pretend it just didn't happen...
What happens when service members attempt? Like their careers are obviously over, but like, do you just throw them in the brig and hope they don't bang their head against the wall?
I was going to say that was suspiciously low....
The rate of suicide attempts among the Lincoln strike group’s sailors was roughly consistent with that of the entire active duty Navy in 2024, the most recent year for which the Pentagon has released suicide data. That year, the Navy saw 356 suicide attempts among its estimated 337,000 active duty sailors.
It being the same rate as active navy is a huge red flag it's a bullshit number.
If they had said "same rate as deployed sailors" it wouldn't be as obvious of a lie. But still unlikely.
Either not all attempts got reported at every level (they never do) or there is a real number that made it to the top and this guy lied.
"SAD" (suicidal and depressed) isn't uncommon on land, but massively scales up even on a short couple weeks at sea. Months with no end in sight....
It's getting everyone to some extent.
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to protect against foreign and domestic... and domestic..
Absolutely not,I'm with her and the molester/abuser must be taken on a trial,but it won't happen, and if it will there will be no consequences and the next applicant should know that, for his/her/whatever own good
Evil continues to win. Humanity is a failure.
That is victim blaming.
What the actual goddamned fuck
Infuriating read. Thanks for the link.
Woman working on the terrorist rapist war crime ship with terrorist rapist war criminals experiences rape by the terrorist rapist war criminals, more at 11.
Those who join the US Army should expect nothing less,Americans must wake up from their illusion and start seeing their apparatus for what it is, not for what Hollywood movies and Fox news want them to believe
For those of you who would prefer to read about this travesty: https://www.military.com/exclusive-navy-sexual-assault-survivor-says-a-workers-comp-claim-just-ended-her-fight-for-justice
Because people refuse to believe that any person could want to be a warrior.
The same people who have read a hundred history books about wars all over the world will swear that we're all actually peaceful by nature.
Look up a book called 'The First Casualty." It's a history of war correspondents.
One Vietnam era reporter was adamantly antiwar. He was approached by a publisher who wanted to do a book that would 'take the glamour out of war.'
The response was 'taking the glamour out of war is like taking the glamour out of sex.'
In a vacuum, no not really. But boot camp is more than just the physical fitness test, you're also being trained how to disassemble/reassemble guns, instructed on the basics of how to function/behave in the military, memorizing rules of engagement/the Geneva Convention, getting tear gassed just to learn what it feels like, in some cases learning how to swim because they never had the opportunity in real life, getting yelled at nonstop by drill instructors, getting hazed in the middle of the night by people a rank or two higher than you or the same rank but just a year or two older, etc. All while experiencing (for most recruits) would be their first REAL time away from home, first time dealing with sleep deprivation, I won't go so far as to say they're malnourished in any sense, but the food is definitely not what 99% of them are used to and comfortable with, etc etc etc.
Point is, yeah, even though I'm not trying to take away any accomplishments from you (or them), the physical fitness test on its own really isn't that tough. What's tough is doing ALLLLL the shit I listed above (and so much more) while still maintaining composure, discipline, and being able to operate highly complicated and demanding tasks often when at the limits of your mental capacity. All of this is, to no one's surprise, a skill that becomes extremely useful in combat and THAT'S what they're trying to build you to be; not a gym bro or bodybuilder (again, no disrespect or anything, I'm just pointing out the different goals in mind)
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