Holy shit. The manning situation must be catastrophic.

When I was on subs, we had manning issues. It is difficult to retain enough people qualified senior in rate to man an underway watchbill. We always had riders come with us from other commands. In exchange for helping us fill a watchbill, they would get their experience and checkouts needed for senior watchstations.

It was always a last minute scramble to have enough people to get underway with enough. And that was during the good years.

Thank god I am not in there now. Deployments must be a fucking nightmare.

The navy used to look for reasons to drop people or deny enlistment. Now it’s the opposite. They are looking for things they can ignore to get or keep people in.