Translation: Republicans in the Navy are Getting Pissed Off (My comment? Gooooooooood!)
First, I want to apologize for the source of the cite--the Moonie Times. That said, I think the squealing and squawking we're hearing from this guy is--in a backhanded way-- a good thing. It suggests that the jerks who were inputted during the Bush years are perceiving that times ARE changing, the bullshit is going to cease (again). And that's good. They can either adapt, or leave.
Look at this little shit's heavily slanted opinion - whine. He's FURIOUS that (waaaah) "political correctness" is ruining the fun 
for him and his pals. I can agree with his irritation at a brisk deployment schedule, but some people --special forces, particularly--thrive in that kind of environment. That, too, is something that, if someone doesn't like the pace, they need to make other plans. SEALS are going to be deployed more, not less--the fashion these days is "The fewer, the better--get in, get out, no muss, no fuss."
I came up in a Navy that went through all sorts of changes--from a time when people on shore duty would go to the frigging BAR at lunch (the smoke filled bar; the bar with slot machines if you were overseas), to an era where the club system had to get creative because they could no longer rely on booze sales as a guaranteed revenue stream. Once upon a time, pregnant women were mustered out because the state of being pregnant was "incompatible" with military service. Marriage was a "get out of jail free" card for women. Now, there's child care on base, maternity leave, and staggered deployment schedules for spouses. Once upon a time, there were no PT tests OR drug tests. You could smoke at your desk and everybody did. Now that kind of thing is just unheard of!
This guy is speechwriting for CNO, which suggests to me that he's parroting...suck up, move up, after all. And CNO is a submariner; they tend to be a bit more, well, conservative on a number of issues, particularly having to do with women in service as they haven't yet had much experience with them in an operational environment.
It is a remarkably frank assessment from an upwardly mobile fighter pilot who is due to become the executive officer of a F-18 unit in Japan.
He says one troubling sign already has emerged: a drop in applications to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis last year....He lists long wartime deployments as a leading retention negative.
He also tackles a touchier issue, what some sailors have referred to as “political correctness,” such as the banning of uniform patches that might offend someone.
Cmdr. Snodgrass writes of “a recent shift within the Navy to eradicate behavior that is, by its every nature, ineradicable.”
“Put simply, there is no dollar amount that can be spent, or amount of training that can be conducted, that will completely eradicate complex issues such as suicide, sexual assault, or commanding officer reliefs for cause — yet we continue to expend immense resources in this pursuit,” he says. “Sailors are bombarded with annual online training, general military training, and safety stand-downs — all in an effort to combat problems that will never be defeated.”
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/25/sailors-leaving-navy-over-stress-on-social-issues-/#ixzz2xO8FiGZf
Talk about a wailer! I can remember when people said that no one would "accept" the Navy getting rid of beards, or women serving in combat vessels, or smoke-free workplaces. Never mind mandating PT and drug tests!
