United States Navy: Woe Is Us......

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.

To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

(This space reserved for a legally correct snark dump.) It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: Maybe if you greedy bastards would stop building shit like the $5 billion dollar Zumwalt-class destroyers or the $500+ million dollar LCS ships or $6+ billion dollars of submarines each year, you might actually have some money left over to replace this stuff.

You might want to also reconsider that new $40 billion dollar aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford.






The Cyclone-class patrol coastals Tempest, left, and Monsoon, make their way down the Hudson River in New York. The Navy's patrol coastal fleet, which entered service in the early 1990s, are past their service lives, and engineers are worried about their ability to perform.


Navy pulls patrol ships over wear, cracks
By Philip Ewing - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Sep 15, 2010 21:07:01 EDT

The Navy is pulling its entire fleet of coastal patrol ships from service, including the five forward-deployed to the Persian Gulf, to repair hull cracks and other damage associated with long service and hard use, Navy Times has learned.

[msongs]

1. a primary purpose of the navy is to attack the US Treasury on behalf of corporate war profiteers nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. hehe

:evilgrin:

[hobbit709]

2. Yesterday's Non-Sequitur sums it up

http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2010/09/15/

[lonestarnot]

4. yes it does.

[old mark]

5. The Navy is probably the biggest money pit in the military, and they are much bigger

than what we need and they are always whining for more...

We need to keep cranking out those Admirals, ya know?


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