On Oct. 13, the Navy’s top two surface type commanders released a message to the Aegis fleet requiring more frequent diagnostic checks, better maintenance and more hands-on involvement by skippers. The goal, according to the message, is nothing less than to “inculcate a culture of SPY self-sufficiency and ownership.”
One would have hoped the Navy was always managing such an important system properly.
I guess not.
Fortunately the diversity bullies are well sustained. Every world-class Navy certainly needs those parasites.
AEGIS is not a system that you have the option of taking care of it some years, and not so much other years; not unlike nukes.
Looks like the past top leadership could not understand their reason to exist. Yet some think Roughead et al were actually worth something. I never saw it.
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Back in my missile warning radar maintenance days in the Air Force, getting downtime to do maintenance at times seemed like pulling teeth. The DO people apparently thought that the equipment was there and operational by magic; the idea that it had physical limitations was beyond their comprehension.
It's too bad that the same attitude exists in the Navy.
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