Retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, who helped prepare a scathing report on the U.S. Navy’s training priorities, argued on “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday that “the focus on warfighting needs to be job one.”
The new report, which was conducted at the direction of Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., Jim Banks, R-Ind., and Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, details a culture of bureaucracy that has shifted away from warfighting.
The authors, including Montgomery, “conducted long-form interviews with numerous active-duty and recently retired or detached officers and enlisted personnel about their insights into the culture of the United States Navy following a series of high-profile and damaging operational failures in the Navy’s Surface Warfare community,” the report noted.
The report noted that one anonymous lieutenant currently on active duty said, “Sometimes I think we care more about whether we have enough diversity officers than if we’ll survive a fight with the Chinese navy.”
“It’s criminal. They think my only value is as a black woman. But you cut our ship open with a missile and we’ll all bleed the same color,” the lieutenant continued. – READ MORE
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