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Pete Hegseth removes all women and some Black service members from navy promotion list
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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I mean part of the reason....... The navy is just constantly shooting themselves in the foot constantly. The biggest being with their obsession with promoting commanders based on things like opstempo and deployment to dwell ratios.
Even when the US isn't in a war opstempo of the US Navy is so demanding that no one wants to join the navy anymore, and the fleets are falling apart from lack of maintenance or ramming into each other from sailors being overworked and undertrained.
And thats all without bringing up the history of graft in the Navy. I mean, Lord knows how many people getting promoted now we're around when Fat Leonard was throwing prostitutes and sacks of money at any officer sailing in the south Pacific.
Its hilarious that the space in between 'ops' and 'tempo' had to be removed.
Was it done for symbolic reasons?
Or were sailors wasting too many resources on the blank space.
It was illegally requisitioned and traded for prostitutes, the navy is now working at peak efficiency.
Wait, who's this Fat Leonard with the sacks of cash?
He was the key player in the Navy's largest bribery scandal .
Basically a defense contractor who would bribe a bunch of officers in high command with booze, drugs, cash, and prostitutes to steer military contracts to his company.
Wow that's a great read. If I wasn't stuck living here, the decline of empire would be very entertaining.
Yeah, the sad thing is that they only ended up holding less than 20 mostly mid level officers responsible, and they were primarily allowed to retire.
Last I heard the highest person to get in trouble was some rear admiral, and he was actually charged like last year by the feds after the navy let him retire.
So I expect nothing actually changed considering that hundreds of officers were thought to have participated. I can only imagine what kinda shady deals they are doing now that the Fed is run by openly corrupt stooges.