[sammyg2]

You face two problems:
1) turnover rate. Guys with 5 or 10 years experience leaving the service and newbies replacing them. That falls to training and mentoring.
2) big brass not wanting attention when things go wrong. Only way around that is to reward honesty and create a culture where information gatekeepers are punished or at least frowned upon. Nothing you can do about that, it would have to come from the top.

I'm not that knowledgeable about the navy but it would seem that if you could get a big guy or two to buy into the idea, they could offer incentives and rewards for reporting opportunities for improvement, lessons learned.
Without help from the top you are prolly doomed to an excersise in futility.