Navy sidelines 17 ships

[Expat]

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How is that woke military working out for us?

 

[d.kaufman]

How is that woke military working out for us?

Just like they intended

 

[BigRed]

The problem is they don't have enough property plundered from American taxpayers to **** away.

 

[phylodog]

All of this "progress" is catching up with us. Can we be done letting the ****ing children run the country yet? Do China and Russia need a bigger welcome sign?

 

[Ark]

I read today that the Navy is looking for contractors to tow three of the ships from the Gaza pier project home because they broke down. Looking like our much vaunted sealift capability is a paper tiger made of busted and undermanned ships.

It seems impossible to credibly claim, at this point, that the USN is capable of crossing the Pacific, kicking the Chinese off an island, and then holding, supplying, and defending it.

And we spent TRILLIONS on this current crop of ships and personnel.

 

[ditcherman]

All of this "progress" is catching up with us. Can we be done letting the ****ing children run the country yet?

Nope.

Do China and Russia need a bigger welcome sign?

Probably not.

 

[BigRed]

I read today that the Navy is looking for contractors to tow three of the ships from the Gaza pier project home because they broke down. Looking like our much vaunted sealift capability is a paper tiger made of busted and undermanned ships.

It seems impossible to credibly claim, at this point, that the USN is capable of crossing the Pacific, kicking the Chinese off an island, and then holding, supplying, and defending it.

And we spent TRILLIONS on this current crop of ships and personnel.

Yet folks claim secession is unreasonable.

 

[BJHay]

Typical for today's Navy. Senior Navy management has a 15+ year record of mismanagement and incompetence.

“This is basically the result of many years of neglect and mismanagement of their force,” Sal Mercogliano, former MSC mariner and associate professor of history at Campbell University

 

[Ark]

Typical for today's Navy. Senior Navy management has a 15+ year record of mismanagement and incompetence.

I am literally not old enough to have a living memory of a time when senior Navy management was competent.

 

[greg]

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How is that woke military working out for us?

These are not military personnel running these ships…..”Merchant Marine”

 

[BJHay]

These are not military personnel running these ships…..”Merchant Marine”

That's right, but the military owns most of the ships. They also select the operators and negotiate the charter contracts.
They can dictate the terms so long as they're willing to pay.

Regardless of who is operating the ships, the Navy cannot sit back and blame vendors for logistics failures. Senior Navy command is responsible for successful logistics operations and ultimately is responsible for fixing the problem.

If I'm reading this right the Navy has sidelined ships because of vendor failures.

 

[Cavman]

They'll be sailing the uss constitution into war since it uses "green" energy

 

[KokomoDave]

With pansies at the helm.

 

[Vodnik4]

During the Spanish-American war, several Spanish ships broke down halfway, embarrassing failure to project power, loss in war.

Somehow that burned into my brain from high school history class. History does not repeat but rhymes.

 

[Ark]

These are not military personnel running these ships…..”Merchant Marine”

If they were military, they'd have better working conditions and leave policies. Merchant Marine have been abused like redheaded stepchildren for years and now we wonder why nobody will do the job.