From the cheap seats, and recognizing hindsight is 20/20, it would be nice if…
-CVN 78 was on schedule
-CVN 79 avoids the issues that delayed 78
-Navy gets to plus up (and train) our personnel end strength while Army and Air Force see a slight drawdown
-Navy avoids future costly, less-capable-than-hoped-for acquisitions like the LCS (like, wouldn’t it have been great if X years ago the Navy had just bought the FFGX straight away and skipped LCS altogether?) and Zumwalt-class that haven’t so far panned out the way intended
-Shift all GMTs to a 2-year mandate rather than annual; consolidate similar ones; centralize the message to come from Big Navy vs commands spending time to tailor the message; consolidate so sailors can knock out 2 years worth of GMT in a single day or two via virtual/hybrid learning
-Recapitalize warfare domain training so that the concept of “distributed lethality” is taken to heart for individual sailors like they said it for hardware platforms; more money for schools, more time spent on warfare areas vs admin/GMTs