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So right! and what that means, presumably, is USNA now must get much bigger into the retention game. And that is big $$. So if Prof. Fleming is portraying a genuine situation, and there would be absolutely no easily conceivable reason to think he'd be doing anything but, regardless of his motives, either staying-in standards'll have to change rather dramatically ... or the 2 level standards will become commonplace. And if this is the case, it will merely indicate that the standards long established for USNA performance were bogus, over-baked, unnecessary.
The much greater issue of addressing the USN goal though is the one that no one seems to be considering ...ROTC, OTC, and other non-USNA commissioning programs. After all, that's where most of the USN officers come from.
And lastly, none are asking or answering WHY the officer corps needs to reflect the enlisted body. After all, with a relatively few, notable exceptions, few among the enlisted ranks become commissioned officers. Can anyone shed light on this? Seems to suggest that an officer of any one of several ethnic backgrounds is implicitly more able to lead others.
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