{"id":70140,"date":"2017-02-06T09:39:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T14:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70140"},"modified":"2017-02-06T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T14:41:07","slug":"new-secnav-is-inheriting-a-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70140","title":{"rendered":"New SecNAV is Inheriting a Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yes, well, I could have told him that. I think anyone could have seen this coming. \u00a0Secretary Bilden is facing at least\u00a0a decade’s worth of plain neglect and rerouting funding to things other than what the money was originally meant to address, such as training and maintenance. The Fleet has dropped from 500 ships at the end of the Cold war\u00a0to 247 under the administration prior to Trump.<\/p>\n

SecNav Bilden faces a complex problem: maintenance, or training, or increased fleet size.\u00a0 And guess who left the mess behind for him to fix?<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/articles\/the-new-navy-secretary-is-inheriting-a-mess-heres-how-the-navy-wants-to-fix-it<\/a><\/p>\n

The general consensus is that the Fleet puts maintenance and training ahead of increasing the size of the Fleet as a whole. \u00a0While we do need more ships and planes, we also need people who can take care of them, something which seems to have escaped the notice of previous occupants of those positions.<\/p>\n

I guess it was more important to make sure that ships had inappropriate names than it was to make sure they were properly maintained and the crews know how to navigate and use the ships’ equipment correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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