U.S. Navy Not Fit For War

[85SugarVol]

@85SugarVol

we gotta get the Pentagon under control pronto..smh

At one point the Constellation design shared about 85 percent commonality with the original FREMM design, but the alterations have brought that commonality down to under 15 percent, a person familiar with the changes told USNI News.

Great… it’s even worse now.

Just so dumb.

The whole point of adopting an existing design was to speed construction and deployment, and to ensure it… you know, worked.

I read somewhere the commonality between the Constellation and its parent design is now less than 20% due to all mods the US Navy slapped on it…

 

[85SugarVol]

Constellations, Ticos, Fords, LCS, Columbia…hundreds of billions wasted..the USN leadership needs an enima.

https://news.usni.org/2024/12/17/gao-navy-wasted-1-84-billion-in-repairs-to-cruisers-cut-from-the-fleet

Unbelievable. Unacceptable.

 

[Orangeburst]

Cost Of Navy’s Newest Arleigh Burke Destroyers Is Ballooning

A wide array of chronic cost overruns and industrial capacity factors could torpedo the Navy’s goal of fielding a 390-ship force by 2054.

www.twz.com

unacceptable

 

[85SugarVol]

Cost Of Navy’s Newest Arleigh Burke Destroyers Is Ballooning

A wide array of chronic cost overruns and industrial capacity factors could torpedo the Navy’s goal of fielding a 390-ship force by 2054.

www.twz.com

unacceptable

Bananas. We’ll be pushing $3B per boat before long.

Japan & Korea can build comparable boats for $800M…

 

[hog88]

Bananas. We’ll be pushing $3B per boat before long.

Japan & Korea can build comparable boats for $800M…

The Navy needs a good enema.

 

[Orangeburst]

https://news.usni.org/2025/01/13/white-house-next-two-aircraft-carriers-named-for-bill-clinton-george-w-bush

@85SugarVol

 

[StarRaider]

The Navy needs a good enema.

the salt water type?

 

[volfanhill]

https://news.usni.org/2025/01/13/white-house-next-two-aircraft-carriers-named-for-bill-clinton-george-w-bush

@85SugarVol

S.S. Stogie
S.S. Mission Accomplished

 

[StarRaider]

USS Never Inhaled that Stogie
USS Mission Accomplished - 20 years of Cheney Wars

fixy

 

[Orangeburst]

we need to equip the USS Clinton with X-32 Monica fighters

 

[StarRaider]

we need to equip the USS Clinton with X-32 Monica fighters

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very good grammar 'burst... TBSFB good

 

[85SugarVol]

https://news.usni.org/2025/01/13/white-house-next-two-aircraft-carriers-named-for-bill-clinton-george-w-bush

@85SugarVol

USS Stinky Pinky

 

[Grand Vol]

https://news.usni.org/2025/01/13/white-house-next-two-aircraft-carriers-named-for-bill-clinton-george-w-bush

@85SugarVol

I hope that's a joke...

Clinton did more to destroy the military in his eight years than the Soviets did in 40.

And the Bush legacy is akin to LBJ.

I'm not sure either should be honored with such a thing. And I like Dubya, but no...

 

[85SugarVol]

S.S. Stogie
S.S. Mission Accomplished

Lol. Beat me to it.

 

[Orangeburst]

word on the pier is the first port call will be Epstein Island.

 

[85SugarVol]

Hey @Orangeburst

 

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[Grand Vol]

Over $151 Million Taken from Soldiers' Paychecks for Food Costs Spent Elsewhere by the Army

The money is collected in what amounts to a tax on troops -- taken from their Basic Allowance for Subsistence payments, roughly $460 per month that is automatically deducted from the paychecks of service members.

www.military.com

 

[Orangeburst]

Over $151 Million Taken from Soldiers' Paychecks for Food Costs Spent Elsewhere by the Army

The money is collected in what amounts to a tax on troops -- taken from their Basic Allowance for Subsistence payments, roughly $460 per month that is automatically deducted from the paychecks of service members.

www.military.com

let me guess..it starts with a U.

 

[Grand Vol]

let me guess..it starts with a U.

Underwear?

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Commanding Officer of nuclear-powered US Navy aircraft carrier Relieved Of Duty after Crash with merchant ship​

The commanding officer of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that slammed into a ship near Egypt last week was yanked from the position “due to a loss of confidence in his ability,” the Navy said Thursday.

Capt. Dave Snowden was “relieved” of his job at the helm of the USS Harry S. Truman and temporarily reassigned following the wild crash in the Mediterranean Sea on Feb. 12, according to the military branch.


Snowden was relieved of his command due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command the vessel.

Commanding officer of nuclear-powered US Navy aircraft carrier relieved of duty after crash with merchant ship

Capt. Dave Snowden was “relieved” of his job at the helm of the USS Harry S. Truman and temporarily reassigned.

nypost.com

 

[hog88]

^^ You don't get to play bumper boats with an aircraft carrier and keep your job.