• Please take a moment and update your account profile. If you have an updated account profile with basic information on why you are on Air Warriors it will help other people respond to your posts. How do you update your profile you ask?

    Go here:

    Edit Account Details and Profile

Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?

Flash said:
From the article, ADM Caudle reached out to the SecDef nominee on offering to help him prepare for his confirmation hearings, which ain't exactly kosher for the Fleet Forces Commander. Him reaching out was confirmed by the Admiral's spokesman.

Before Pete Hegseth had even been sworn in as defense secretary, Admiral Caudle, then the head of a major Navy training command, offered to help Mr. Hegseth prepare for his politically contentious Senate confirmation hearing, according to current and former defense officials.

Then, after Secretary Hegseth took office, a member of Admiral Caudle's staff reached out to Secretary's staff and suggested him for the job of CNO.

..soon after Mr. Hegseth took office, he fired the first woman to lead the Navy: Admiral Caudle’s boss. Days later, a senior officer on Admiral Caudle’s staff contacted Mr. Hegseth’s team in another breach of protocol. His pitch: Mr. Hegseth should choose Admiral Caudle to be the next chief of naval operations.



Mr. Parlatore is not just another lawyer though, he is a currently 'special advisor' to Secretary Hegseth in addition to previously representing the Secretary and President. He was also given a direct commission as a CDR in the reserves as a JAG when he had previously only been a SWO LT, when the Navy stopped direct commissioning reserve JAG's about 30 years ago.

So not just an attorney representing some rando wealthy people, he is an official who is a personal advisor and previously personal attorney to the CNO's boss/es.
Click to expand...
Is there an ethical regulation violated here?

I would think that the NYT would have pointed it out if that was the case.
 
Spekkio said:
Is there an ethical regulation violated here?
Click to expand...

On who's part, the lawyer or the Admiral? The lawyer? Likely not, as their ethical regulations seem to often be whatever they want them to be. The Admiral? He bypassed his chain of command to directly offer his advice and counsel to a person soon to be the senior civilian in the Department of Defense, which may or may not have 'violated an ethical regulation' but likely violates several Defense and Navy regulations and rules with the whole bypassing the CoC thing.

The fact that you seem to have no problem with what occurred certainly says...something.
 
taxi1 said:
Laws and regulations are the gutters, not the norms.
Click to expand...
One of the things this regime has demonstrated is that most of the things that kept the system running relatively smoothly and normally weren't rules, but norms, norms enforced by collective agreement and a sense of shame. If you have no shame, there's not much to stop you. You'd think there'd be a law preventing, say, the President from setting up a junk cryptocurrency to funnel untraceable bribe money into his coffers. Turns out that we'd just been relying on the people electing trustworthy leaders all these years...
 
Randy Daytona said:
I would rather those easily deployable aircraft be stateside rather than lined up on a European tarmac without shelters just waiting for a surprise drone attack.
Click to expand...
From Germany yesterday:

Drone carrying explosives at German airport marks ‘new level of danger’, says interior minister​

Investigators treating incident as part of ‘professional hybrid threat scenario’, says Alexander Dobrindt

The Leipzig drone bomb marks a dangerous escalation for Europe


www.theguardian.com

Drone carrying explosives at German airport marks ‘new level of danger’, says interior minister

Investigators treating incident as part of ‘professional hybrid threat scenario’, says Alexander Dobrindt
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
sevenhelmet said:
Despite the NYT’s obvious bias, that guy sounds like a real piece of work.

I’ve said it before, but I think the days of our military being a nonpartisan institution are behind us, at least for the time being.
Click to expand...
Yeah, that downfall started well before the current administration, or what some here call a 'regime'. LMFAO.
 
From USNI, an article on the shipbuilding industry and the personnel required. I did see an article earlier proposing second chance training in prisons for those willing to become welders, pipefitters, etc. Has been done in the past. Looks like the UK might be thinking about trying the same.


UK prisoners to build warships under bombshell plan to get nation war-ready​


UK prisoners to build warships under bombshell plan to get nation war-ready | UK | News | Express.co.uk

An apprenticeships scheme is being proposed which could fill 5,000 welding vacancies in the defence industry sector.
www.express.co.uk www.express.co.uk
 
Randy Daytona said:
From USNI, an article on the shipbuilding industry and the personnel required.
Click to expand...
Hits the nail on the head on the issues but I'm unconvinced by his solution for addressing the lack of technical experience amongst foremen. The shipyard hemorrhaged 20-year builders during COVID, I don't see how an upskill training program similar to the Navy's A/C/F school provides that experience in any meaningful way beyond what the apprentice school already does? A-school isn't what qualifies somebody to be a CPO. I'm all for leadership classes, it would help to fix some retention issues if they had better trades leadership, but my personal issues with foremen at the yards was never about their leadership as much as it was technical unfamiliarity. It's a good article but you can tell somebody with an MBA wrote this.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top