Another! https://firenewsfeed.com/news/376976 I hope all are safe!

[image] DamnYankee: “Merchees?” Is that really a thing? Yes.

[image] DamnYankee: That may be so, but do they try to learn from others mistakes? Not as good of a job that should be done. The Navy has a massive lessons learned database, but it is treated more as a requirement than a resource. SWOs, being the cynical bunch we are, usually refer to it as…

[image] Alan_Newport: If we go to war tomorrow we can go out and hire a hundred 3rd Mates I don’t see what make people think a 3rd mate is going to do better than an ensign. I’ve sailed with new ensigns and with new 3rd mates, seem about the same more or less.

[image] Alan_Newport: I disagree that other nations can do what we do, simply because the breadth of what we do is so much larger than other nations. [image] Alan_Newport: Part of the reason is they have fewer officers to try and train There are many navies, such as the RAN, RN, JMSDF,…

[image] Lone_Star: There are many navies, such as the RAN, RN, JMSDF, ROKN who can do every mission area we do with the exception of carrier operations. Our breadth and depth is a testament to our size but necessarily skill. Having fewer officers was not always the case, and I would argue isn’t…

[image] Alan_Newport: an homage to a few esteemed posters here who struggle to spell “navy” The only struggle here is not to get sick every time the navee screws up. And the term navee is a derisory conflation of navy and ditch digger or navvy - look it up since it probably isn’t in the SWO …

[image] Alan_Newport: The requirement to be a good seaman has been dropping steadily thanks to technology. In JPJ’s day you had to maneuver your ship into firing a broadside, so things like the weather gauge and lee gauge mattered. Your definition of seamanship appears to be focused on its a…

My views here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Navy. The only folly here is the attitude that machine operators can’t be replaced by automation. It happened to switchboard operators, it’s happening to fast food cashiers, it’ll happen to taxi drivers, and it will…

[image] Alan_Newport: The requirement to be a good seaman has been dropping steadily thanks to technology. In JPJ’s day you had to maneuver your ship into firing a broadside, so things like the weather gauge and lee gauge mattered. Technology does not preclude seamanship. Seamanship is ever …

Doesn’t seem that cut and dried to me. What about the practice of ship captains having to rely almost 100% on the chief for Eng dept matters? It has to be true that something is lost with specialization into deck and eng on the merchant side.

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