The Navy’s Terrible Accident Record Is Now Hidden From Public View

The Navy’s Terrible Accident Record Is Now Hidden From Public View

The latest incidence of a government agency quietly removing data from its website demonstrates the dangers of an ever-changing internet. Websites appear and disappear every day. The internet is an amorphous beast, constantly being edited and updated. We accept these changes as simple fact, but crucial information is frequently removed from government websites—and small changes over time can have major downstream consequences. I made the disturbing discovery recently that, amid a dramatic five-year spike in aviation accidents, the Navy has put aviation safety data that used to be public behind a wall.

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Rather than truncate the article to avoid running afoul of DP board content rules, I urge the reader to partake of this revelation at the linked source above.

Why would the military post active-duty and accident numbers for our potential adversaries to know? Maybe Russia, China and N. Korea should be given offices in the Pentagon and daily briefings of all our military activities and design blueprints of all our equipment too.

President Obama SLASHED maintenance staffing in the military hoping to cripple the military to stop future military actions - but then decided he wanted to bomb lots of countries and move lots of troops around after over 50% of aircraft maintainers were discharged - with it taking years to train replacement personnel. The aircraft crashes were 100% inevitable as a result.

joko104 said:

Why would the military post active-duty and accident numbers for our potential adversaries to know? Maybe Russia, China and N. Korea should be given offices in the Pentagon and daily briefings of all our military activities and design blueprints of all our equipment too.

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All the services list such data except for the Navy. Accidents don't automatically equate to combat readiness.

joko104 said:

Why would the military post active-duty and accident numbers for our potential adversaries to know? Maybe Russia, China and N. Korea should be given offices in the Pentagon and daily briefings of all our military activities and design blueprints of all our equipment too.

President Obama SLASHED maintenance staffing in the military hoping to cripple the military to stop future military actions - but then decided he wanted to bomb lots of countries and move lots of troops around after over 50% of aircraft maintainers were discharged - with it taking years to train replacement personnel. The aircraft crashes were 100% inevitable as a result.

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Wow. That's some ultra-strong covfefe you've been hitting.

Don't be surprised to find 'Diversity' polices behind much of it; putting inept people in charge of anything because they need x numbers of women here, x numbers of blacks there, x numbers of mutants over there, etc., is not going to work like the nutjobs thing it will, even though it works great in Hollywood movies and shows like JAG..

Accidents and readiness stats once available to the public are no longer?

Somehow I'm reminded of the old question posed by Robert Bowman USAF: "if they have nothing to hide, why are they hiding so much?"