Comments on: Aging Warships

By: Maritime Monday 180

Maritime Monday 180 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:50:20 +0000

[...] Neptunus Lex has longer deployments for the Navy in “Aging Warships“. [...]

By: Mongo

Mongo — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:37:14 +0000

Saw pics of Coral Maru in the yard being dismantled. It was a real shock to see her shredded down to the hangar deck. Makes me think the ‘O’ boat and America-shima got the better deal.

By: Mongo

Mongo — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:34:18 +0000

IIRC, the reason we went to a 500 ship Navy under Reagan was to 1. shorten cruise periods, allowing more time home with family and such, and 2. to get the ships into the yards (notice that I used the plural) on a more timely schedule.

After all the work of building the Navy to an adequate force level, I was very dismayed that Bush Sr & DOD started undoing every good thing that had been done. Obviously it was a DOD wide program of downsizing/right sizing/gelding/do more with less, but the whole notion of a larger force level had absolutely nothing to fighting wars. We needed to take care of our people, we needed to take care of our equipment (big & small), and should a firefight break out we needed to be able to take care of it without surging 3/4′s of the damned military.

It really gripes me to see our Reserve forces being used so extensively today, and all because leadership at the top got this notion of ‘do more with less’. Instead of being kept in reserve for an emergency, today’s Reserve forces are being utilized more like a second shift at the factory. I fear that we are going to pay for that mistake one day very, very soon.

Looking at where we are right now, we simply could NOT conduct another engagement at the force level of Desert Storm; never mind getting involved in a second theater (and I’m not talking the Af).

Happy Friday, y’all.

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:19:33 +0000

AT1 B/

The sad fact is that there are not enough keels in the water nor sailors to man them because we have a Congress that has for years been dominated by those congenitally adverse in the main to all things military and good luck with our present President. And Bush didn’t have the courage of his convictions in pushing for modernization as well as war funding for fear if he asked for both he would get neither out of a Congress perfectly willing to do so out of spite. Combine that with a MSM which has enveighed 24/7/365 against all things military as well as the war, and the picture gets pretty bleak in terms of public support. I am not optimistic it will get any better anytime in the near future, either. Sadly.

By: Steeljaw Scribe

Steeljaw Scribe — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:30:36 +0000

By: Kris, in New England

Kris, in New England — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:55:21 +0000

I’m not military. No one in my family ever had to serve and non volunteered either.

So why am I commenting?

Because I can’t help it – Flit is a wanker for his comment. I had to say it. Especially with active military commenting here and having to deal with this latest extension as we speak.

A little more respect would be nice.