Lib Policies Torpedo Navy Morale
The Navy has plenty of destroyers -- but low morale may be the
biggest one of all. Stressed and stretched thin, most sailors say
they're fighting another kind of enemy: distrust and dissatisfaction.
For most service members, the last six years have been an emotional
roller coaster -- not only because of the external conflicts, but
because of the internal ones that threaten to tear apart an already
fragile fighting force.
In a survey of
5,536
Navy personnel, only 27% say morale is "good" or "excellent," a
freefall from past responses, where strained troops still managed to
keep their spirits up. Now, a half-decade deep into the President's
social experiment with the military, the scars are starting to show.
Almost half of enlisted troops said they "distrust senior leaders" -- an
opinion shared by 40% of officers. And the wave of pessimism threatens
to affect more than just the Navy.