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Senior chief to retire in hazing investigation

I’m tired of seeing junior enlisted getting hammered where senior enlisted and officers get off for doing the same exact thing. Senior enlisted and officers are supposed to set the example and are not supposed to be above the law. I realize that it’s not all senior enlisted and officers, but when it happens often enough that it seems commonplace, then something needs to be done about it. I realize rank has its privileges, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to follow the rules just like everybody else. Nobody is above the law.

— JGStewart

Cuts to some APO, FPO MAIL

I [am a] young soldier but I think this decision is very poor. When the post office tried to shut down some rural post offices that had little business, Congress said no way. It should be the same with APO and FPO addresses.

— Unregistered303

Lean manning saps morale, puts sailors at risk

We consistently say we are working smarter, not harder, yet no one can see the bare-bone issues with our fleet. We preach about work-life balance, yet we continually force unreasonable (and dangerous) requests for our sailors. Also, we tag the best for other missions or send them [on individual augmentee missions] because the joint military world is short bodies.

With all that, upper echelon wonders, why are we failing inspections? Why are we running aground? Why are [commanding officers] relieved? Because we justify the reduction of sailors.

When I joined, sailors fixed ships because they were the technical experts; sailors did all facets of the Navy’s jobs because they were the trainers. Sailors were the experts because they had training and interaction with mentors, and sailors enjoyed down time with family because their shipmates stood the watch.

— padog

We just had a mandatory survey to see how many hours we’re working a day. I ended up with about 14½. That’s doing work — not standing watch, not eating chow, not attending to my career details such as visiting disbursing or personnel, or sleeping, or attending sick call or seeing to my personal hygiene and uniform maintenance. It’s high time Big Navy woke up and saw what the bean counters are doing to us.

— ElectricElvis