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The new Ford carrier is undermanned by hundreds of sailors, and the Navy missed every single one of its recruitment goals in FY2023, by thousands.

It's a chronic issue at this point for practically every branch. Only way to actually fix this would be a draft but it goes without saying that this has it's own issues.

This is the real bottleneck and what navy force design 2045 wants to add 150 unmanned hulls. But that's still going to require more shipbuilding capacity. Assuming it's not fantasy. Sometimes I think Navy/planners see writing on the wall and realize future is not naval.

Draft, boot camp, stimulants, easy.

The long-term Stimulant-medicated do not hold up well in hotter climes. Actually, daily early morning Physical exertion/exhaustion works better than stimulant drugs to combat ADHD anyways.

That destroyer collision in the SW Pacific, rescuers had to go into the flooding deck to wake seaman up.

They had to be drugged out of their minds.