ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept. 23, 2014 ) The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) leads a formation of ships from Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 12 during a maneuvering exercise. Theodore Roosevelt participated in the exercise with the Peruvian submarine BAP Islay (SS 35), the guided-missile destroyers USS Winston Churchill (DDG 81), USS Forrest Sherman (DDG 98), USS Farragut (DDG 99) and the guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60). Theodore Roosevelt is underway preparing for future deployments.
Washington Free Beacon: Navy Faces Deployment Crisis as Aging Ships Get Sidelined
Experts warn of U.S. inability to respond in Persian Gulf, Asian Pacific.
The U.S. Navy is suffering from an inability to deploy ships to key international conflict zones due to rising maintenance issues on an aging fleet, that is increasingly being sidelined for lengthy repairs, according to military experts and a new government investigation.
Heavy demand on the Navy’s fleet during the past decade has compromised the operational conditions of many ships, forcing military leaders to sideline these vessels for lengthy repairs that experts say will severely limit the Navy’s ability to respond to emerging threats in the Persian Gulf and Asia-Pacific regions.
Read more ....
WNU Editor: Too many missions .... not enough ships. So either change the number and scope of the mission(s) .... or build more ships. My prediction .... the White House/Congress will do neither.
4 comments:
There were 14 month deployments under President Jimmy Carter.
Democrat today, democrat tomorrow.
The shite never changes.
" That's way down from the Bataan amphibious ready group's marathon, 321-day deployment three years ago — one of the longest Navy deployments since World War II."
TY Obozo
"Eight-month deployments are becoming the fleet standard, with some stretching much longer. For instance, destroyers Barry and Gravely returned from nine-month cruises in November that were extended due to the Syrian crisis.
Destroyer Shoup bested them with a 10-month cruise — believed to be one of the longest destroyer cruises since World War II."
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/archives/2013/12/04/8-month-deployments-become-the-new-norm-/78544174/
Obamination
It is not just the long deployments. In the year or year and half before a deployment, you are gone 1/2 the time for workups, tests and exercises.
When you are in homeport you are gone 1/2, 1/3rd or 1/4 of the time.
The only worse job may be a long haul trucker.
There is a reason why it is easiest to get in the Navy and hardest to get in the Air Force.
Maybe those psychologists. sociologists and statisticians out east could spend time in addition to studying foreign cultures study military culture.
There is a reason why an Admiral on the West coast thought his command was Peyton Place.
Sun Tzu wrote know yourself and know your enemy and you shall not lose 1,000 battles. The military nor the Beltway bandits knows the military.
Or they do and just don't care. Beltway is pretty fat dumb and happy. No recession for them for example.
The civilian divorce rate stands at about 3.6 percent as of 2011, according to the most recent data. Military and civilian divorce rates cannot be accurately compared because of differences in tracking methodology
Post a Comment