Posted on May 7, 2023
Navy problems with ship readiness really starting to piss Marines off
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The service’s inability to keep ships running is also having serious effects on the operations of the Marine Corps, which relies on Navy ships to transport and position them near mission areas, to the frustration of officials in that branch.
Overall, the watchdog agency report released Tuesday found that while the Army and Marines have managed to keep up or increase the readiness of their troops, the Navy’s sea forces have been on the decline — with some areas worsening for more than a decade.
Overall, the watchdog agency report released Tuesday found that while the Army and Marines have managed to keep up or increase the readiness of their troops, the Navy’s sea forces have been on the decline — with some areas worsening for more than a decade.
Navy problems with ship readiness really starting to piss Marines off
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Companies that make the parts, need to put the price of the parts at the same level as what they would charge someone in the civilian world, not tack on a 500% increase because it's being sold to a government entity ma'am Lt Col Charlie Brown
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Cpl Vic Burk
SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth That's the way of the business world. It's the federal government, rip the taxpayer off like paying $170.00 for a hammer that you can get at Lowes for $10.99.
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CPT Jack Durish
Cpl Vic Burk - Are businesses ripping off the government or is the government ripping off the taxpayer? I suspect that it's a bit of both with the greater larceny being committed by the government. Makes me wonder if we should pay our taxes in hammers and the other things the government needs and have the government value our contributions using the same schedule they now use to pay their vendors.
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Tenders, repair ships and yards. Gone with the wind. Ratings retired or combined. When I retired in late '93, we had well over 40 tenders and repair ships, each one equivalent to a yard. No ships system on subs or surface not repairable. Highly technical ratings like patternmaker, foundryman, boilermaker, nuke welder, pipe fitter, and a hundred more lost to the "off the shelf" repair concept. U.S. yards allowed to atrofy and shrink. Foreign yards in Sasebo, Yokosuka, Pohang, Keelung, Subic, Pago Pago, Singapore, Naples, Rota, and more not utilized or underutilized for political and other reasons. Not a left right failing. A national failing. Cpl Vic Burk SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth CPT Jack Durish Lt Col Charlie Brown
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CWO4 Terrence Clark
MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi Here's a few of mine. Subic, San Deigo, Holy Loch, Rota. Doing what we used to do. Forward Maintence. Ensuring no beach out of reach, the abyssal plain our ball field, choke points under U.S. control. Rare shot of the USS Simon Lake lowering "shapes" into a boomers. Maybe a trident, maybe not.
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CWO4 Terrence Clark
MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi only two sub tenders still active. USS Emory S. Land AS-39 and USS Frank Cable AS-40. I served on the AS-33 & AS-34. All five (counting TAD) of my tenders/(AS, AD, AR, ARG) are razor blades or reefs. As are all those not laid up in Bremerton. Saw an article that the Navy has no intentions of activating mothballs. But every intention to scrap the mb fleet. Tenders are not very glamorous, but we are learning - once again - there's no force projection without maintenence. Yet, no tenders in the planning pipeline. Won't bore you with tales of the 92-93 ARG B deployment (13th MEU). Other than with Yokosuka unable, Sasebo unable, Cory Aquino kicking us out of the P.I. we finally squeezed New Orleans and Juneau into Singapore for CASREP only and us into Lumut, Malaysia. Ever heard of it? Nobody else had either. Brand new. But a corvette re fit. We could put four corvetts in our well deck. One last pic. Frank Cable. I'd rant on this all day
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Lt Col Charlie Brown This is not good news and the fact it is public knowledge now might send a message that the United States is weak.
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