What's Wrong with the Navy?

What’s wrong with the U. S. Navy? Another accident; more sailors dead.

Lt. Col. Ralph Peters suggests that Navy officers have been receiving sub-standard training. Instead they are taught about diversity and sensitivity. This is the Navy that Obama built.

Fox News reports Peters’ analysis:

Peters, a Fox News strategic analyst, said the Navy is perhaps the "paramount" branch of service for our national defense. He was asked how this could happen again.

"The obvious conclusion is the officers on the bridge and the seamen don't have basic navigation skills. They no longer are drilled in basic seamanship. They don't have the discipline they should. I love the U.S. Navy ... but it's in a bad way right now," he said on Fox Business Network….  

An active-duty Navy officer echoed the concerns to Fox News, questioning the level of training for young officers.

"It’s not the same level of training you used to get," the officer said.

Peters called out the military, especially in the Obama administration, for turning the armed services into a "social engineering experiment."

"Those sailors did not have the basic seamanship skills, but by God, they got their sensitivity, race relations and sexual harassment training," said Peters, adding that sailors can't fight without adequate navigational skills.

"The neglect, the lack of focus that goes into an accident like this is just appalling," he concluded.

And you thought that the “social engineering experiment” would be cost free. Think again.

One can only wonder whether the Navy still allows anyone to talk about seamanship. Isn't the politically correct term: seapersonship?