I'm not sure why so many are replying to this so I'll hijack the top comment. To talk some sense into people.
The crew isn't a navy crew. The uniforms shown are not navy uniforms. In fact this is likely some kind of repair crew of some sort.
Secondly, this ship is in port, with the anti-skid coating on the deck apparently not visible meaning that this ship is already a non-operational ship.
Why do you say it isnt a navy crew, and those arent navy uniforms? Not in the USN so not able to tell quickly, but it seems that they are in a mix of the USN NWA Type IIIs, Navy Whites, and then working overalls. They almost all seem to have some sort of rank insignia, though the only ones I can make out are the LT, the CDR or possibly CAPT, and then maybe a cadet to his left?
The optempo of US Navy vessels is inconceivable to foreign navies.
Practically every second of every day while underway the ship is expected to be operational and a ship's itinerary is pre-determined down to the minute. Delays are not tolerated.
The fleet keeps getting smaller but the workload remains the same. The Navy is burning out its personnel and equipment trying to keep up.
The records for both longest deployment (215 days) and longest time at sea with no port calls (208 days) were both broken in 2020.
From 2017:
> The Navy has doubled its number of forward deployed naval forces ships operating out of Japan since 2006 – a bump from 20 to 40 ships – but those ships do not follow the Optimized Fleet Response Plan readiness generation model that includes dedicated time for ship maintenance and crew training ahead of rotational deployments.
The Navy used to heave to and have a day or two to clean up before entering port but they don't do that anymore. Those days cannot be wasted on cleaning.
As for the picture, if you told me that there were individual members of the US Navy crew that had more time at sea than the entire combined crew of the Polish ship, I would not dismiss that comment immediately as being implausible.
Online busybodies, like those commenting on the tweet you linked to, will bitch and moan about the navy going soft but they would crumble into dust under the pressures the Navy is operating under today.
The worst are the old-ass "CoLd WaRrIoRs" who spent 20 years in the navy doing a 3-month med cruise every year who got less time at sea than the 19-year old deck seaman on the rusty ship in that photo got before they pinned on E-3.
They would have gone AWOL if forced to go 200 days without touching dry land.
The crew isn't a navy crew. The uniforms shown are not navy uniforms. In fact this is likely some kind of repair crew of some sort.
Secondly, this ship is in port, with the anti-skid coating on the deck apparently not visible meaning that this ship is already a non-operational ship.