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Senior Sailors can help train juniors Summary Some key problems the Navy faces with having sufficient sailors to keep ships operational include: 1. Personnel shortages: - The Navy assigns fewer sailors to ships than required. As of November 2023, the Navy had about 16% fewer enlisted sailors on board ships than required. - Some ship classes like aircraft carriers, cruisers, and amphibious assault ships had far fewer sailors than needed to safely operate them. 2. Unavailability of assigned sailors: - Even sailors assigned to a ship are sometimes unavailable for duty due to illness, temporary assignments elsewhere, etc. - On one aircraft carrier, only about 83% of assigned sailors were actually available on a given day. 3. Lack of experience/preparation: - Sailors assigned to maintenance-heavy positions often have less experience than needed. - Engineering departments, which require more maintenance work, tended to have lower "quality of alignment" scores, indicating sailors we

Do this right now if your Social Security number was snared by hackers Summary Here's a summary of what to do if your credentials are involved in a data breach: 1. Check if your information was compromised:    - Use websites like npdbreach.com or npd.pentester.com to check if your Social Security number was stolen.    - Monitor your Social Security account for suspicious activity. 2. Alert financial institutions:    - Inform your banks, credit card companies, and other financial services providers.    - Consider freezing your accounts to prevent unauthorized access. 3. Review and protect your credit:    - Obtain free credit reports from annualcreditreport.com.    - Place a fraud alert on your credit reports with one of the three major credit bureaus.    - Consider a credit freeze, which is more effective than a fraud alert in preventing new accounts from being opened. 4. Alert authorities:    - File a police report and keep a copy as proof.    - Contact the Fede