Insanebikerboy said he thinks the navy is too focused on admin and that more time should be spent on "tactics", which I assume applies mostly to his community, H-60's. Your response was that they can just learn that stuff during work ups, which is fine if you want the bare minimum of competency and corporate knowledge. Of course if you don't have the luxury of a full work up you're pretty much screwed.
He said Navy, not the H-60 community, so I assumed he meant his gripe was with the entire Navy.
As for the 'bare minimum,' if that wasn't enough to get the job done then it wouldn't be the minimum. The 'bare minimum' maintains proficiency in the basics, deployment workups are tailored to what you will be doing on deployment. Aside from that, I don't know what timeline you are envisioning where the entire Navy has to go to war overnight with little to no preparation, to include ships that are not in the appropriate phase of the deployment cycle where the ~2 week transit time wouldn't be enough to bring the crew up to speed. Even the next naval battle after Pearl Harbor/Wake Island occured 5 months later.
Why did you say anything about needing to focus on getting from place to place and good maintenance practices? What did that have to do with the discussion at all?
My comment was directed toward the 'too much admin.' Admin is how you know that the proper maintenance was done on the equipment you are taking underway/flying into harm's way.
I said "what" for clarification. I guess that upset you because you responded with a bunch of straw men that aren't worth responding to.
No upset. Your post seemed sarcastic and so I responded in kind. My point was echoed by BigRed. You can prepare for the basics, but to be an expert on every adversary's capabilities and tactics in peacetime is very difficult if not impossible, and the juice is probably not worth the squeeze. In addition, we may not even know the enemy's capabilities until ordnance starts flying.
How do you know what missions you intend to execute?
Deployment LOI via ISIC.
Keep in mind that we (the US) have not been good in predicting who we would fight and how that particular nation / group would fight.
Which is why time is better spent maintaining proficiency in the basics at the unit level.