Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Navy struggling to recruit submarine crews... because sailors can’t use Facebook underwater...

Royal Navy recruiters are a having hard time finding young people to work on Britain’s submarines because nobody wants to be cut off from social media for up to 90 days at a time.

Days after Parliament voted to renew Britain’s continuous-at-sea-deterrent, a survey by research firm PA Consulting found the Navy is facing a huge recruitment crisis.

Young people are reluctant to become submariners partly because it means being at sea for three months at a time without their smartphones or access to social media.

Some crews on the Vanguard-class Trident submarines are having to sail three times a year because of the lack of recruits. Full story...

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