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Again, I am not a sailor, but I have often wondered what the efforts to reduce crew sizes to save money would have on damage control, watches, and the ability of the ship, if necessary, to fight and defend itself. Many of the vessels that were seriously damaged in combat during WW II were saved by the herculean efforts of many of the crew in damage control operations.
To me, it appears to be a failed experiment, unless we anticipate never actually employing our vessels in naval combat again.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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