Navigating the disastrous DEI

So would the combination of an inexperienced Captain and a sub optimal vessel be a recipe for a disaster? Yes! Now you have a clearer picture.

Another female NZ commander Fiona Jameson had crashed another Navy vessel earlier this year in Auckland. These appointments were possibly a leftover legacy from left wing looney Jacinda Ardern who not only stuffed the NZ economy but was foisting such DEI policies into unsuspecting government bureaucracies such as the Navy. DEI policies in shore establishments may be unpleasant but are workable, however bosses there won't put your life at risk. At sea it is an entirely different matter, and such policies should be unacceptable.

Was this event a "triumph" as described by New Zealand's Defence minister and Navy Chief Judith Collins?. What puerile nonsense from Collins in her weak response to a shameful incident! Any strong and sensible Navy Chief would have rejected any traces of DEI policies in the manning of naval ships for frontline defence.

DEI policies would be a deterrent to any potential navy applicant, even female ones, who know full well this imbalanced system could see someone promoted preferentially on the basis of colour, sexual preference, gender or other "minority" status. Record low applicants? Get away!

On the subject of nonsense, could it have been the naughty Samoans shifting a reef without permission so the Kiwis ran into it? Knowing the mainstream media's quick acceptance of ridiculous nonsense like the Israelis starting the October 7th war, I flippantly suggested this as a possibility to unhappy activist people I know. Keep an eye out for Al Jazeera "unconfirmed reports".

On a happier note, a previous CEO of a South Pacific island Ferry informed me several years ago he had been instructed by his government to take at least 50% female trainees, in line with DEI suggestions from matriarchal New Zealand

'Was it a success?" I asked him

"It was a 100% success," he responded

"How do you mean ?"

"All of them were pregnant within 6 months" he happily replied, "so we are back to normal, taking applicants on merit, male or female."