The ones that lacked this mindset often didn't make it through the Obama administration.

That's my understanding as well. I've heard from multiple sources that the actual warrior types who understand what real fighting is, were "encouraged" to leave the military from practically every branch of the Armed Forces during President Lightworker's misbegotten reign. And this really crippled the military's ability to fight actual wars.

As for our carrier groups, truth is they need to be Stateside and not policing the planet. Its better for everyone.

Well, the entire point of a CBG is to project vast amounts of force across distant seas, so having 11 carriers operating off the American shoreline kind of defeats the purpose.

Hypersonic missiles have already rendered the entire concept of the supercarrier nearly obsolete, though, so those 11 carriers aren't going to be around for all that long. It will only take one or two combat losses of those giant floating cities to drive the message home, hard.

Dealing with China and the myriad of critical security issues means making most stuff here and an end to cheap labor of any kind.

Agreed. One very good thing about Corona-chan is that she has made it extremely obvious that the Chinese – both the government AND the people – cannot be trusted and should be treated as open enemies of the USA and the Western world.

The upper echelon in the military is almost entirely modern college graduates which should tell you something.

The ones that lacked this mindset often didn't make it through the Obama administration.

Also anyone 25 and under has never lived in a world without fairly ubiquitous internet and has had smart phones since they were very young.

Making procedures that take that mindset into account is critical.

As for our carrier groups, truth is they need to be Stateside and not policing the planet. Its better for everyone.

Dealing with China and the myriad of critical security issues means making most stuff here and an end to cheap labor of any kind.

This will be resisted to the last as Capital. pardon my use of Commie talk, hates paying wages and a lot of them wpuld rather burn the place down than budge.

They'll have to be made to budge and I don't see that happening.

If the US to have any functioning 1st world country after this mess and you know people are to have enough money for family formation and urban life we had better get to work as a nation that can't make its own comms or its own antibiotics is functionally a satrapy of our nearest rival, China.

you've got a ship with a staff of nearly 5000, a large part of which is a cohort which is 18-25 years old.

you're going to give ALL of these people a spying multi-tool and expect that stupid things aren't going to happen? you think you're going to have any operational security at all? what. in. the. hell. is going on?

"Loose Lips Sink Ships" has been a catchphrase since WW2 …

it's like the upper echelon of command is full of OK Boomers or something.

Imparts a new meaning to the phrase "bloody minded". 🙂

it would appear that servicemen are NOT surrendering their cell phones prior to boarding ship
…
many or most of these cell phones being made in China
…
and have to be expected to have backdoors implemented in hardware
…
and every one of which can record audio, video, access internet and supply GPS coords down to 1 meter resolution.

That is an excellent point. Something like 90% of the world's mobile phones are made in China. And at this point, I trust the Chinese – not just the government, but the people as well – about as much as I trust a coyote in a chicken-coop.

It was a colossal mistake to outsource everything to China, which was once a bastion of civilisation and culture but has now proven, over the past 50 years or so, to be a very real enemy of that which is good, beautiful, and true.

and telling the entire planet that ( at least ) 1 of 11 strategic nuclear carriers is incapable of conducting the most basic warfighting operations is … suboptimal, to say the least.

thus, the SecNav had justification to fire the captain.

unfortunately, he also chose to shit all over the outgoing commander while he was in the process of firing him.

question:
who was responsible for installing Crozier as captain? and permitted him to remain there?

IF Crozier is so blatantly and obviously unsuited for command
THEN what does that say about the competence or lack thereof from the superiors who vested him with authority?

not to mention that it's rather a bad look to shit on an officer for "caring too much about his men".

OTOH, given the ease with which the message of the SecNav got leaked to public the very same day he gave it?

*facedesk*

it would appear that servicemen are NOT surrendering their cell phones prior to boarding ship
…
many or most of these cell phones being made in China
…
and have to be expected to have backdoors implemented in hardware
…
and every one of which can record audio, video, access internet and supply GPS coords down to 1 meter resolution.

how in the hell has this been permitted to happen?

the Bill Whittle boys cover some of this:
billwhittle.com/carrier-commander-fired-as-naive-or-stupid-navy-secretary-says-hold-my-beer/