Faced with a 2nd 'widely-known but unrecognized' crisis in junior sailor welfare in the space of 3 months, the Department of Defense must step in and force the Navy to right the ship.
This impression was reinforced on April 22, when the Navy’s top enlisted leader, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Russell Smith, in an “all-hands” meeting with the crew, scoffed at their situation, saying, “What you’re not doing is sleeping in a foxhole like a Marine might be doing.” The enlisted leader told his sailors the Navy could do little to relieve conditions for junior sailors aboard refitting ships beyond doing better “to manage your expectations coming in here.
At a press conference, Representative Luria related how Admiral Daryl Caudle, the commander of the Navy’s Fleet Forces Command, explained that the Navy is “very good at once there is a problem identified finding solutions and corrective actions…they are not always as proactive in certain circumstances in identifying problems before an incident of some type happens.”
A ship in the midst of a major refit is no place to live. The vessel is never quiet. At least two, and usually three shifts of shipyard workers are usually charging about the vessel, trying to get things done. It is unsafe and uncomfortable. The constant din, along with the irregular power disruptions, stints without running water and failures in heating and cooling systems, is a grim environment.
But the Navy’s investigations are limited and far too narrow. At Newport News, the Navy will focus on the ship, exploring the “command climate, command culture, onboarding” and the “systemic stressors to working in the shipyard environment.”
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