You couldn't even find one of Australia's shitty subs years ago lol
A diesel boat on battery power makes virtually no noise, so shitty or not during a limited time frame it could do what it wanted.
And as an American Submariner I took part in several of these types of exercises. At first I was very nervous when I realized how outnumbered and outgunned we were. Our only defense was not being found. Day one of war games rigged for silent running, sweating bullets worried about being found and what that meant if we did it for real. Day five we were watching movies, playing cards, and had a junior guy banging on pipes with a large wrench and we still were undetected. I slept much better after that. This also illustrates that these aren't real. We collaborated with our opponents until we found the thresholds and limits of different equipment and personnel configurations. Winning wasn't the point at all.
the hell it is. The military still regularly kicks people out for having tattoos. The military is the LEAST 'accepting' aspect of US culture in regards to lack of rigid traditionalism.
I find this very hard to believe. Twenty years active and I work with sailors continuously. I served with guys who had hand tats and even neck tats at a time when tattoos weren't quite as popular as they are now. The rule was not visible in uniform, but these guys had waivers. The active duty guys I work with today frequently have sleeves visible when they role up their uniform sleeves. I haven't seen hand or neck tats recently, but we did have a female sailor with diamond (looking anyway) stud things on her forearm.
The US Military is the least accepting of any employer in the US IMO. Color blindness disqualifies you from many jobs. Minimum and maximum weight and height standards disqualify you. You must be vision and hearing able. You must be able to walk, run, and meet physical readiness standards. Physical deformities disbar you from service. Prior criminal convictions or drug use can disbar you from service.
In short, you won't find any person in the military that was born into a wheelchair, is blind, or has to receive medication for epilepsy or such. That's 180 degrees out from Civilian employment.
EDIT: If you're speaking of being tolerant and integrating those from different backgrounds then I would agree.
You skipped over a very important part of his post where he referenced the ability to do the job. Even in civilian employment, they have to be able to physically do the job. The only difference being employers have to make "
reasonable accommodations" for some disabilities, like wheelchair access for a desk job. It wouldn't be reasonable to duplicate everything you publish in brail so a blind person could proof-read it, or have medical staff on hand to enable an epileptic to work at a remote site. So your 180 degree statement is not quite accurate. (I base this on both my personal observation and HR course work from my MBA) As trivial as it may seem, color blindness
should disqualify you from some jobs. In my field color blindness disqualified you because you have to be able to differentiate between a green "it's ok" indicator light and a red "it's not ok" indicator. I would think EOD technicians should be able to tell what color the wire is and any laboratory type fields, chemists for example, should be able to tell what color the solution is. All the rest of your examples are far more suspect....we are talking about people we send into combat. Obese, one-legged, and blind people shouldn't be sent into combat. However, any and all of those types of people can and do serve in the DOD as civilians.