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1. Terry (terry@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 11:57:51 JST Terry
   remember when the Azov shills told us the Russians didn't even know how to use their own nukes. Their technicians couldn't figure out something from the floppy disk era.
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   • Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 13:09:04 JST Tyler

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     When I managed a shop working on 1960s-1980s communications and navigation equipment for use in the P-3C Orion maritime surveillance and recon aircraft, our #1 greatest weakness was that nobody knew what they were doing.
     
     I mean, these avionics technicians, which some had been technicians for 8 years, did not know ohms law, did not know how to use an oscilloscope, did not understand the function of discrete components, and were generally unable to complete a systems checkout using the provided documentation and drawings because they could not understand the meaning of the words.
     
     This is considered normal throughout the entire US Navy, and they do this on purpose.
     
     The technical schools you are supposed to attend prior to doing your job are vacations, where you spend 1 hour waiting for your instructor to arrive, spend 20 minutes looking at a PowerPoint, the. A 10 minute quiz and then you go home. These are supposed to be highly difficult courses, but it's impossible to fail them.
     
     To give some perspective on how bad the technical schooling of the Navy is: I was able to TEST OUT of the organizational level P-3C "Career" course because I somewhat knew how to read a publication, and was able to bluff my way through the lab portion, and the instructors didn't care.
     
     It is no surprise to me that the people they put in charge of the missiles face the same struggle.
     
     Daniel 2:41
     And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
     
     Daniel 2:42
     And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
     
     Daniel 2:43
     And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
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   • IsraelDelendaEst (israeldelendaest@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 13:09:09 JST IsraelDelendaEst

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     • Tyler
     @tyler @Terry I was reading this thinking "what the actual fuck" right up until the point of "US navy".
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   • Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 13:09:13 JST Tyler

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     • IsraelDelendaEst
     The contractors (NATEC - old guys the Navy keeps around to help train) simply gave up trying to train people because the sailors didn't care and they were wasting their breath. The processes are there for the navy to be a competent fighting force, but women and minorities (and their associated baggage) took their toll.
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