http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/31/michael-gilday-fix-navy/
A former chairman of the Joint Chiefs puts it bluntly: “The Navy was
decapitated by Leonard. It lost a generation of officers.” http://www.forbes.com/sites/craighooper/2020/09/04/as-investigators-id-big-problems-us-navy-blames-fat-leonard/#754f072561ce
...about thirteen percent of the Navy’s 220 or so Admirals were targeted
for criminal or ethical investigation, ... http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fat-leonards-crimes-on-the-high-seas-197055/
For the Navy, the scandal has been a slow-moving embarrassment, tying up
rank advancements and assignments. “The impact this is having on the talent
pool in our Navy is that any officer who’s served out there in the last
decade is now coming under scrutiny,” the navy officer says. “The net
effect is you have a whole generation of leaders who have never served in
what is arguably the most important operational theater we have.” In a
worst case scenario – say war with North Korea or even China – this means
the officers writing war plans would have no operational experience in the
Pacific, meaning they wouldn’t know what a Chinese submarine sounds like,
or how to sail an aircraft carrier into Hong Kong because they’ve never
done it, a retired 7th Fleet captain says.
