Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Or has he simply played the hand he’s been dealt and cut his losses before folding?
We’ll see how things go as the budget cuts continue and flight hours/underway times shrink…
At least there are all the new uniforms…
And consider the person who gave him such a disaster got promoted…?
If we as a nation abandon power projection as we seal deals and make friends with the rabid governments on the planet, the need to train expeditionary forces collapses. We’ll be back down to much smaller navy and it would be nice if the people in the business gave serious thought to the actual layup costs for the CVNs and big deck amphibs rather then promptly hauling them out to sea and using them as targets or reefs after the decommission. Start working with Congress to make sure that money gets programmed properly.
Do you think the current leadership will not convert these ships into reefs ASAP?
It’s the only way to prevent the US from unilaterally projecting power across the globe. We gotta be humbled and hobbled, dontcha know.
BUTCH,
The big deck amphibs will go the reef or target route (fish in a barrel if you ask me) but the CVNs will be a little trickier to get rid of quickly.
No doubt there is right now a leading scientific research liberal progressive think tank that is studying the fastest way of pulling the reactors in the quickest possible manner particularly if that involves inflicting immediate irreparable harm on the ship’s hull or war fighting capabilities following decommissioning. Oops, I meant NAVSEA is doing that, as if there was a difference.
Granted, he has taken positive action on shipbuilding sorely needed. Someone had to. Sure, he’s the man in the ring and all, but I think he understands Naval Aviation as much as I do archeology.
What about those mistakes made in aviation vision (20/200)? And why doesn’t he truncate all the social engineering going on in his name? Too much to ask I reckon.
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“Social Engineering” is ALL the Obama Admin is about–first, last and always.