{"id":74588,"date":"2017-09-09T10:14:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T14:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74588"},"modified":"2017-09-09T10:14:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T14:14:53","slug":"gao-navy-collisions-resulted-from-overstretched-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74588","title":{"rendered":"GAO: Navy Collisions resulted from overstretched force"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends an article from Federal News Radio<\/a> which reports that the Government Accountability Office claims that recent collisions and other incidents are the result of an overstretched Naval force which lacks time for proper training;<\/p>\n

Within the 7th Fleet, 37 percent of the warfare certifications required for cruisers, destroyers and their crews were expired as of June, the same month in which the USS Fitzgerald collided with a container vessel. Of those, more than two-thirds had been expired for five months or more.<\/p>\n

The figures represented a dramatic increase from just two years before, when only 7 percent of the certifications were expired.<\/p>\n

John Pendleton, director for force structure and readiness issues at GAO, said part of the problem is that Navy vessels that are permanently forward-deployed at overseas bases have fewer opportunities for crew training and regular maintenance, an issue GAO has been warning about since at least the summer of 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were told at that point that the overseas ships were so busy that they had to train \u2018on the margins,\u2019 a term I had not heard before,\u201d Pendleton said. \u201cIt was explained to me that they had to squeeze training in when they could. Given our concerns, we recommended to the Navy that it carefully analyze the risks that were mounting, especially given the plans to increase overseas basing in the future.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That sounds like an NCO\/time management problem to me. Even during the Carter years when troops had absolutely no money for training, our NCOs insured that training happened “on the margins” or otherwise. Granted that we weren’t driving city-sized boats around the ocean, but, you know, we still trained while the Soviets were stationing combat brigades in Cuba and invading Afghanistan. We knew that Carter hated us, but we still had to survive the next war.<\/p>\n

Even during the Clinton years, NCOs still trained the trained the troops who were constantly deployed on “meals on wheels” missions, while JRTC was focused on humanitarian operations, the troops were still ready for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq in the following decade.<\/p>\n

The Navy’s NCOs need to get control of that situation, while naval officers are doing their best to feather their own nests as evidenced by the number of officers currently awaiting punishment for their peccadilloes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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