This DEI knocking is completely out of line and is to be honest bigoted.
Wait until the investigation, initial reports are a loss of power, this has caused issues for much larger more expensive ships, I know a few naval officers who have had very serious near misses due to unexpected loss of power.
On the DEI side, bigotry shits me to tears. In my personal experience, pushback against DEI is actually eroding defence capability.
Previously neurologically diverse in particular used to slip under the radar, as did many homosexuals, even women. Basically their competence allowed them to fill critical, but often not sexy roles the privileged lads had little interest in. You know, the jobs that required intellect, hard work, competence, skills etc. not just being tall, white and male.
These days with the DEI pushback those who used to be accepted on the quiet are now labelled and under the spotlight. They are being mobbed, othered, micro-managed, subjected to micro aggressions, and have to justify everything they do. Fault is always found and the pressure is constant.
I'm involved in DEI as a sideline to my core duties and some of the stories are shocking, there are some really self-intitled privileged nutters out there. They are undermining processes, even projects and capabilities because they don't like the people in certain roles.
Of the dozens of nutters I have come across that defence would be better off without, only three are women and one is gay, all are white and self-entitled, all are delusionally confident in their feelings of superiority to those who they deem undesirably different, all feel threatened by competition from highly competent, capable people who are diverse.
