USS Boise moors at Marathi NATO Pier Complex in Souda Bay, Greece, during a scheduled visit Dec. 23, 2014.
ABC News: US Navy: 3 nuclear-powered attack submarines 'not certified to dive today'
Three nuclear-powered attack submarines are currently not operational, according to U.S. Navy officials, proving the service is still working to reduce its backlog of submarines that require maintenance.
The spotlight has been on the USS Boise, which has now been out of service for four years. Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. William Moran told senators during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday that the Boise would enter a private shipyard in January, but two other submarines "are not certified to dive today."
The Navy has been working for years to get more submarines into dry dock for maintenance, which now includes the use of private sector shipyards in addition to public ones. As many as 15 subs awaited maintenance in Oct. 2017, keeping a significant chunk of the service's 71-submarine fleet potentially out of service.
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Update: 3 US Navy attack submarines 'not certified to dive today' (CNN)
WNU Editor: The USS Boise has been out of service for four years, and will finally enter a private shipyard in January. 15 other subs are waiting for maintenance. This is not how you run a Navy .... but apparently this has been a problem for a long time.
3 comments:
"This is not how you run a Navy." The US Armed forces including the Navy have been WAY behind those of tne dominant world powers for quite some time. It's good that influential personnel are finally grasping what I've recognized for many, many years. It's better late than never!! Reality has become so glaring that it can't be blithely ignored.
4 years of inactivity.
Well, they'll be scraping barnacles for so long they'll retire as E-6 minimum. I wonder if this is a manning problem?
Pretty shallow article. No questions asked by the reporter? More hard hitting news by ABC. Now to Ophra's new shoes.
The real problem here is that we have not prioritized shipyards. We have very few places that can actually maintain what we have.
This hurts me to see.
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