{"id":140822,"date":"2023-05-05T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=140822"},"modified":"2023-05-04T14:01:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:01:53","slug":"friday-short-takes-army-navy-shortfalls-sludge-light-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=140822","title":{"rendered":"Friday Short Takes – Army\/Navy shortfalls, Sludge Light down"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, looks like the Army is not going to meet its recruiting goals yet again this year.<\/p>\n

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth told a Senate<\/a> Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday that the service would fall short of its goal of 65,000 new recruits.<\/a> The Army fell roughly 15,000 active-duty troops short of its goal last year of having 60,000 new soldiers.\u00a0 MSN<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You have to wonder what the raw numbers look like if 6 months out failure seems inevitable. H\/t to Jeff again<\/p>\n

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And on the water-borne front, the Marines are facing a shortage of Navy ships to transport them.They think they need 38 amphibious ships for support,\u00a0 worst case 34, whereas the Pentagon (ie. Big Navy) says they can do with 31…or less. It’s a complex situation (read the cited article) but one salient factor is that the readiness rate of these ships is about 40%.<\/p>\n

That rate means in a fleet of 31 ships, 12 or 13 might be available at any given time. If six are supposed to be deployed, and another six are getting ready to deploy next, that leaves little to no additional capacity for training or surging in response to natural disasters or conflicts.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of Americans trapped in war-torn Sudan last month needed a way out of the country, but the U.S. Marine Corps, the go-to service for such rescues, couldn\u2019t help. Typically, this kind of mission would be standard for the Navy and Marine Corps\u2019 amphibious ready group and Marine expeditionary unit, made up of 2,300 Marines aboard three ships who are trained to fight their way into and evacuate citizens from dangerous locations.<\/p>\n

Instead, as violence surged, the Pentagon relied on drones to monitor a 500-mile escape route from the capital of Khartoum to the Red Sea city of Port Sudan. For the Americans who fled to the coast, the Pentagon sent an auxiliary transport ship to shuttle them to safety in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 DefenseNews<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sorta thought the whole Navy-Marine relationship was based on the Navy transporting the Marines to go do Marine stuff. Well, we wondered at the anemic response in Sudan – there’s your answer. Kinda makes you wonder how we would be able to fight a major war?<\/p>\n

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The Bud Light fouforaw is affecting the parent company. Remember when InBev bought the biggest-selling beer company in the US? Despite early denials, Bud Light sales are down so far it is dragging down the parent company.<\/p>\n

Figures released by Bump Williams Consulting, a firm that specializes in the alcohol beverage market, found Bud Light sales have progressively slumped throughout the month of April. In the second week of the month, they were down 11 percent and plummeted 21 percent the following week. (4th\u00a0 week totals reportedly are down 27% – Ed.)<\/p>\n

Overall sales are now reportedly down 8 percent on the year, jeopardizing parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev\u2019s position as the market leader.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it runs the risk of losing that No. 1 position at the end of calendar year 2023 to Modelo Especial,\u201d Bump Williams, the market research company chief, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em> on Monday.\u00a0\u00a0 AOL News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What was that phrase…”Get woke, something…?<\/p>\n

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