Command climate surveys from 2021 show the crew of the Navy destroyer Bulkeley voicing concerns about the ship a year before the ship’s superior command, Destroyer Squadron 2, launched its probes into the trouble warship. (Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDespite these sailors using one of the only tools available to the lower ranks for raising the alarm about problems at the command, Bulkeley\u2019s crew would have to wait another 13 months before any higher-ups began looking into the ship and its problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carter, the Navy spokesman, said that Bulkeley\u2019s leadership submitted an \u201cExecutive Summary and Plan of Action and Milestones\u201d to its superior command following the 2021 survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But he did not answer Navy Times\u2019 questions regarding whether anyone above the warship intervened to respond to sailors\u2019 concerns following that survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhile I can\u2019t provide specific information related to the Bulkeley\u2019s Command Climate Assessment, the command did conduct a number of focus groups, which allow for more in-depth conversations to assist with identifying the root causes for areas of concerns, or where greater clarity of opinions or perceptions are needed,\u201d Carter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHarassment of any sort is not tolerated in the Navy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asked whether the Navy had any indication of whether morale aboard the Bulkeley has since improved, Carter suggested that Navy Times submit another Freedom of Information Act records request for such information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bulkeley eventually made its way to Spain in August 2022, and the ship received the Battle \u201cE\u201d Effectiveness Award last year, reflecting the ship\u2019s \u201cintegrity and accountability,\u201d Carter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While that award suggests that the ship and crew have recovered, one sailor noted how everyone aboard Bulkeley seemed \u201cweird\u201d in 2022, a few months before the ship headed for Rota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDon\u2019t feel like the ship is normal at all, including the crew,\u201d the sailor told investigators. \u201cJust frustrating. Shitty leadership, shitty work environment, shitty schedule. Just shitty times.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Who will believe her?\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Two of the four investigations obtained by Navy Times delved into recurring sexual harassment in navigation and engineering sections of the ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the spring of 2022, some women had come to the grim realization that being harassed was just part of being a part of the Bulkeley, according to the investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere was a general belief on the ship that this behavior, sexual harassment, is common,\u201d the investigating officer noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The investigations also reveal a troubling trend of alleged incidents within the ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One female sailor reported working in the chart room when a male shipmate suddenly yanked her hair and bent her over the chart table, holding her by the neck and pretending to have sex with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got next,\u201d another male sailor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some women questioned the point of even reporting sailor misconduct, believing the chiefs mess would just sweep allegations under the rug, or that speaking up would hinder their own opportunities for career advancement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Crew members claimed that one serial harasser of women was never held accountable because he was a good worker who \u201c[helped] out with a lot of divisions, a lot of different things,\u201d according to the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One sailor reported harassment beginning almost immediately after she reported to the ship in 2021, and it started with \u201clittle comments, like talking about my butt or my boobs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those sailors would later sit with her in the chart room and talk about their penis sizes and how their genitals were larger than her boyfriend\u2019s, the sailor recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The investigation notes that the sailor reported being called a \u201cslut\u201d and a \u201cbitch,\u201d and that a superior \u201cwas either making the comments or was present in the spaces\u201d when the comments were made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another sailor was known to invite women to sit on \u201cPapa\u2019s lap\u201d while the navigation division was at work in the chart room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women onboard recalled being propositioned for sex while on watch and listening to male sailors in the signal shack discuss which of their female shipmates they would like to have sex with.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Navy destroyer Bulkeley pulls into its new home port in Rota, Spain, in August 2022. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jacob Owen\/Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSailors ogled new arrivals in a group chat, and talked of hooking up with new arrivals, even though they were all married.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAll that means is no commitments,\u201d one of them wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One woman who alleged harassment called it the biggest issue onboard the ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf we aren\u2019t comfortable to come to work, then what are we doing here?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former Command Master Chief Earl Sanders told investigators in May 2022 that the command climate was \u201cgood,\u201d but noted that certain \u201cmicroclimates\u201d were not in sync with the command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said he had spoken with the chiefs mess since day one about staying professional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDon\u2019t talk about sex and rating women or men or any of that, because in my opinion that translates to the deckplate,\u201d Sanders said, according to the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of the misdeeds uncovered by investigators showcased a lack of professionalism in other regards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At one point in 2022, a male sailor in the navigation division stuck his genitals into a bag of coffee and then made a pot with the tainted grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An officer came along and unknowingly drank a cup of what he later called the \u201cpenis coffee\u201d when speaking with investigators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bad things happen when leaders don\u2019t spend time in their ship\u2019s work spaces, according to Raymond Kemp, a retired fleet master chief who served as the senior enlisted leader for U.S. Naval Forces Europe before his retirement in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe crew needs to know that I\u2019m either watching or I\u2019m listening at all times,\u201d Kemp told Navy Times. \u201cAnd there\u2019s no telling when I\u2019m going to walk into that space.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018You don\u2019t have rank, suck it up\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Once Bulkeley finally left the yard, and the pressure was on to get the ship certified for operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some sailors told investigators the crew was suffering from having too much to do, and not enough time for sailors to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The crew had been \u201cbeaten down\u201d during its so-called \u201cLight Off Assessment,\u201d or LOA, a crucial step to ensure a ship is ready to go after maintenance, according to one crew member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before that, during Bulkeley\u2019s more than two years of shipyard maintenance, some in the crew struggled with the lack of purpose that can afflict sailors through such availabilities, the investigations show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHard to see the big picture when you are sweeping up contractors\u2019 messes,\u201d quipped one Bulkeley sailor, who joined the ship in December 2019 and expected it to be \u201cfully operational and doing stuff\u201d by that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The consequences of such extended maintenance time came into sharp relief via the aircraft carrier George Washington, where multiple crew suicides in 2022 resulted in high-level probes that revealed the toll for sailors enduring a seemingly unending yard time.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThen-Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Russell Smith, center right, met with Cmdr. Devine Johnson, left, commanding officer of the destroyer Bulkeley, Cmdr. Arturo Trejo, right, the ship\u2019s executive officer, and Command Master Chief Earl Sanders, center left, in March 2022, just a few months before Johnson and Sanders were relieved. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Anna E. Van Nuys\/Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nOne Bulkeley sailor noted the crew essentially gave up on the ship during maintenance, and that getting everyone back on an operational footing after the yard was a struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maintaining standards can be hard aboard a ship undergoing maintenance, said Kemp, the retired fleet master chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The lights are dimmed or turned off, contractor hoses run everywhere and it can feel like someone else\u2019s ship, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCleaning standards cannot be maintained in a shipyard environment, and what happens is that your standards begin to dip, because one of the ways you\u2019re able to display a high level of standards is through cleanliness,\u201d Kemp said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In such environments, it\u2019s critical that sailors have a firm sense of what they are collectively working toward, both in the yard and when they turn the ship back on when the availability is over, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Bulkeley left the yard and the move to Spain got delayed, sailor stress was compounded, as some members had already had their housing money cut from their pay, according to the investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLot of stress on top of an arduous maintenance schedule,\u201d one officer said. \u201cThe crew is just under extreme pressure with schedule, no one knows what happens next, keep getting upgrades that no one knows how to work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other mishaps ensued, a sailor said, and members were placed in front of consoles that didn\u2019t work and would be yelled at for being five minutes late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One member said sailors felt \u201cpushed along\u201d in the certification processes, even as systems weren\u2019t working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At least one Bulkeley member told investigators that they went into Surface Warfare Advanced Tactical Training, or SWATT, \u201cthinking they were going to die.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSWATT proved to the crew they weren\u2019t worthless,\u201d the investigating officer wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSailors heave around mooring line during a sea and anchor evolution aboard the Navy destroyer Bulkeley in February. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joseph Macklin\/Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBack in May 2022, one Bulkeley sailor told investigators that \u201ca lot of people are tired,\u201d and others felt as if the wellbeing of the crew had fallen by the wayside as the ship\u2019s command raced to get the destroyer back to sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Navy has rolled out surface fleet guidance for sailor rest in recent years, after crew fatigue was found to have played a role in the 2017 Fitzgerald disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the investigations suggest fatigue became the plan of the day aboard Bulkeley by early 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWent on an underway, pulled back into port on a Monday, worked all week, pulled out on a Friday, then pulled back in the following Monday,\u201d one sailor told investigators. \u201cReally rough. Had no sleep, barely sleep even underway. They push us for quals, which is good, but go straight from [one job] to work on quals, then down to [damage control] for those quals, then only have an hour of sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When it came to the officers, the sailor recalled never seeing people look \u201cso dead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMakes me nervous, how someone can stand [officer of the deck], [junior officer of the deck], master helmsman … and perform to top level with only a few hours sleep,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Navy spokesman Carter told Navy Times that sailor readiness and wellness remains \u201cour top priority,\u201d and that the community is \u201cactively addressing challenges\u201d to sailor fatigue through a variety of measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One officer called the command climate \u201creally bad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur schedule keeps changing, adds instability, crew has no idea what is going on or what is happening next,\u201d the officer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The officer reported manning shortfalls and how it was \u201chard to get hull swaps to fill manning gaps,\u201d a shortage of sailors that ships across the surface fleet grapple with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One sailor noted that \u201chigher ups\u201d are dealing with stress and \u201ctake it out on us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWork lists are horrible,\u201d the sailor told investigators. \u201cUnderway a lot, don\u2019t get a lot of sleep, under a lot of stress, undermanned, toxic environment. A struggle every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One junior sailor said everyone at the rank of E-6 and above told them to \u201csuck it up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is the Navy, this is the way it is, you don\u2019t have rank,\u201d the sailor said. \u201cSuck it up.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\nFamily of Sailors aboard the Navy destroyer Bulkeley wave the ship\u2019s battle flag as it prepared to depart Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, and head to its new home port in Rota, Spain, in August 2022. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Theodore Green\/Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nEven Bulkeley\u2019s leadership conceded that things weren\u2019t right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Johnson, who would be relieved of command shortly after the investigation concluded, noted a lack of trust in his chiefs mess, and the fact that sailors felt \u201coverworked and just generally tired.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThink that\u2019s improving, at least the morale piece,\u201d he told the investigating officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ship\u2019s second-in-command at the time, Cmdr. Arturo Trejo, described the ship\u2019s climate as \u201cstressed,\u201d according to the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trejo theorized that a lack of trust in the chiefs had to do with fraternization incidents involving the mess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cStill have sailors that were there, that still remember that,\u201d he said. \u201cGo through a two year yard period, still bitter, have that impression of the chiefs mess, those perceptions still remain despite new people here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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