Navy Leaders Say Faster Training Is Key Lesson Learned from Red Sea Conflict

[rangerrebew]

Navy Leaders Say Faster Training Is Key Lesson Learned from Red Sea Conflict
 
Published January 14, 2025 at 2:31pm ET

Navy officials on Tuesday began to open up about the lessons they are learning from the months of sustained combat in the Red Sea against Houthi forces in Yemen, including how the service shot down its own jet last month.

The four top leaders of the Navy's ship and aviation communities told a large crowd of mostly other military officers at a conference in Arlington, Virginia, that one of their key takeaways has been a push for accountability, transparency and rapid learning. However, the public remarks didn't reveal much about tactics or the danger ships face.
 
Vice Adm. Daniel Cheever, the service's top aviation official, told reporters that the push for rapid learning meant that Navy officials have already done "a big debrief, basically, to make sure we know what happened and why" in the friendly fire incident involving the USS Gettysburg and a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/01/14/navy-leaders-say-faster-training-key-lesson-learned-red-sea-conflict.html

[rangerrebew]

Faster is not the key, better is.  If the training is inadequate now, throwing it at people faster will only worsen the learning results.

[ETCM]

The headline is just poorly written, and failed to capture the intent of the Admirals comments. What he said was essentially, we need to quickly implement the lessons learned from this friendly fire incident, as well as everything else we are learning in the Red Sea. That will include training as well as procedures.