We don’t care about your sexuality, we care about your skills, says senior Royal Marine
A senior Royal Marine has said the Armed Forces do not care about sexuality, they care about the skills personnel can deliver.
Lieutenant General Sir Charlie Stickland, Chief of Joint Operations, was a judge at this year’s LGBTQ+ Defence Awards and presented the award to Veteran of the Year.
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I am the grandson of Commander Jack Williamson RNZN. He put his life into making the RNZN into the best that it could be. There is an interview with him in this very website where he goes through his life starting when he enlisted at the age of 14, his time in WW2 until the time he retired and after he retired and bought Feruno radar’s NZ devision and used it to employ ex-service personnel. He put everything he had into the Navy and seeing it in this kind of state when competent individuals are passed over for promotion in the name of “gender equality” would have him turning in his grave.
Promotion MUST be granted to competent individuals REGARDLESS of gender.
Having someone sink a 100 million dollar ship and then being praised for it is nothing more than an embarrassment. And it is not the first time.
If straight male had done this he would have been dragged over the coals and held accountable.
The NZ Navy used to be something that foreign services admired, they were always in the top tiers of the Naval exercises despite their limited budget but the quality of the men and women in the service made up for this in shear ability and professionalism. I heard of other Navel personnel commenting on the skill and the ability for the RNZN to hit far above its weight class.
Now the RNZN are seen as being a bad joke and nothing more than a laughing stock, an incompetent one at that.