It's purely a leadership failure. From what I right now, that's a huge problem for the entire USN, maybe the entire us.mil right now. It's cultural and there seems to be a lot of shit going on at the leadership level that would have gotten you relieved a few years ago. The art of leadership is to take a group, raise them to their highest level of performance, and then keep them at that level for as long as possible. Leaders have the ability to effect the entire arc of another human beings life. That authority must be balanced by a responsibility and duty to do it as well as you possibly can, every single time. There is a big goddamm difference between telling a young man who's just starting out: "You have failed to meet the standard and achieve your goal at this time. Go get better prepared and come back and try again later if you can." Or telling him, "You are a fucking failure and worthless to us. We have no use for you here, so go be a failure somewhere else, out of our sight. We're just going to shit-can you, so we can't even be bothered to waste any time or resources teaching you to be or do anything more useful."