Friday, March 12, 2021

Pentagon Considering Cutting One Aircraft Carrier From The Fleet

USS Theodore Roosevelt sails alongside its sister ship, USS Nimitz, in the South China Sea earlier this year. U.S. NAVY/MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 3RD CLASS ELLIOT SCHAUDT 


The Pentagon is again considering a reduction in aircraft carrier force structure as part of the upcoming Fiscal Year 2022 budget submission to Congress, according to two sources familiar with the discussions. 

In order to meet a proposed $704 billion to $708 billion topline for the first Biden Defense Department budget – the Trump administration’s FY 2022 budget proposed $722 billion – the Office of the Secretary of Defense is weighing how it could build in savings by reducing the carrier force, the two sources familiar with the ongoing internal discussion told USNI News on Wednesday. 

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WNU Editor: As this blog predicted in a post yesterday (link here). Under the Biden administration expect major cuts in the U.S. defense budget, cuts in procurement, cuts in operations, and the elimination of big budget items like an aircraft carrier.

3 comments:

RussInSoCal said...

There's no more a glaring emblem of 'white dominance' than a US Navy aircraft carrier. The imperialistic, exploitative, racist symbology in those ships is simply intolerable.

They all must go.


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R,

Jac said...

Well, as before Pearl Harbor, we are disarming when our enemy is arming. What a marvelous thinking!!! Thanks Biden we are now sure we will lose the next war, we are missing that. We are doomed.

Anonymous said...

Sure Demented Fool and Vice President Strumpet are not considering cutting the defense budget, but here we have this.