Airedale260
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I mean...
We also get a bunch of dumb ass training in the army
I feel like this sounds like an easy excuse for the officers that they shouldn't have and is an attempt to let them off the hook. They had a responsibility to prioritize and do actual sailor stuff. It's actually quite possible to do all this (some of which, like human trafficking awareness, DOES make sense when you consider that there are a ton of women and children being trafficked to be prostituted here and overseas).
Regardless of the subject matter, though, you're talking about what is basically an hour's worth at most of a presentation in a three-month period. If the leadership can't figure out how to shoehorn in the important stuff, then that is a problem because pretty much any manager in a large institution needs to know how to do just that.
What also doesn't help is that there are a bunch of idiotic failures like nobody knowing if their uniforms were the safe ones, or equipment problems, or poor communication and coordination. Hell, you had the entire ship's leadership at the dock and NONE of them could figure out how to coordinate efforts between the Navy and the federal fire department (to say nothing of SDFD, who actually left because nobody was giving them orders and couldn't tell them how or where to slot in and acting as if they should have been telepathic. It took the admiral who commands the entire strike group (who has zero responsibility for firefighting ops or running of a particular ship) to step in and coordinate things on the fly.
And to make matters worse, the Navy KNEW about problems with fires in port after the USS Miami fiasco and wrote updated regs in 2012. But nobody bothered to follow up on them, and nobody did updated training. That’s right: In eight years, *nobody* bothered to schedule any updated training. That’s not “oh, we’re just really busy with other stuff” that’s “we don’t give a fuck.”
Word seems to be a bunch of senior officers (from the ship’s leadership as well as admirals tasked with overseeing compliance with this) are going to get their careers wrecked. It’s long overdue, and quite frankly, it’s a miracle nobody died despite the Navy being incredibly stupid over this.