{"id":75005,"date":"2017-09-28T10:42:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T14:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75005"},"modified":"2017-09-28T10:42:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T14:42:36","slug":"navy-brings-back-pencils-and-compasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75005","title":{"rendered":"Navy brings back pencils and compasses"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the New York Times<\/a>, the Navy is turning away from technology and looking at returning to using pencils and compasses to avoid collisions like the two last month which cost 17 sailors their lives;<\/p>\n

Collectively, current and former officers said, the new rules mark several significant cultural shifts for the Navy\u2019s tradition-bound fleets. At least for the moment, safety and maintenance are on par with operational security, and commanders are requiring sailors to use old-fashioned compasses, pencils and paper to help track potential hazards, as well as reducing a captain\u2019s discretion to define what rules the watch team follows if the captain is not on the ship\u2019s bridge.<\/p>\n

\u201cRowden is stomping his foot and saying, \u2018We\u2019ve got to get back to basics,\u2019\u201d said Vice Adm. William Douglas Crowder, a retired commander of the Seventh Fleet and a former deputy chief of naval operations, who reviewed the four-page directive issued on Sept. 15, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times. \u201cWe ought to be doing this anyhow.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They’ve also decided that sailors need more rest and more training;<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found some things about risk that didn\u2019t match what we thought, and we\u2019re making changes in things we discovered,\u201d Vice Adm. Kevin M. Donegan, commander of the Fifth Fleet based in Bahrain, said in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we have something like this happen, we do rigorous homework,\u201d Admiral Donegan said. \u201cWe\u2019re not standing fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is little argument, however, that a shrinking Navy is performing the same duties that a larger fleet did a decade ago, and that constant deployments leave little time to train and maintain ships amid their relentless duties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Funny how they’re arriving at this conclusion now, but no one had the guts to tell their civilian masters last year, you know, when lives could have been saved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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