As Secretary, Mabus overruled the Marines and opened all ground combat (armor, artillery and infantry) jobs to women. He also pushed for and then implemented the repeal of “Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell.” The percentage of women at the Naval Academy was greatly increased and he brought NROTC back to Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton. He also opened NROTC units at Rutgers and Arizona State, the two most diverse universities in the nation.
If everyone looks the same, comes from similar backgrounds, thinks in like ways, then the military or other organization becomes predictable and a predictable military (or any other organization) is a defeatable military. The only qualify to get a job should be the ability to do the job, and gender, race, birthplace, who you love, gender identity, etc. become as irrelevant as eye color or who you root for in football.
If sea level rise isn’t arrested, the largest naval base in the world, Norfolk Virginia, will go under water in the foreseeable future. As storms, floods, and droughts get more frequent and more severe, unrest occurs in affected areas, and unrest can become chaos, and chaos can become conflict. As the Arctic melts, there will be many more opportunities for friction with states like Russia and China.
Mabus will touch on current events (the war in Ukraine; China threat) to climate change as a national security issue. During his time as Secretary of the Navy, he took the Navy and Marines substantially off fossil fuels as a war fighting measure.
As the longest serving SecNav in 100 years, Mabus was deeply involved in nearly all national security topics and, on his watch, Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Ladin.
When Navy Secretary Ray Mabus vacates his job Jan. 20 as President-elect Donald Trump takes office, he can add another line to his resume: survivor.
Ray Mabus has veered from tradition to affix the names of liberal Democrats to war vessels in a special and coveted military honor during his long tenure as ...
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