[Sgt_Schultze]

If the Second Fleet were to be shut down, hundreds of jobs could be lost in the Hampton Roads area.

US defense is not a jobs program. If that's the #1 argument you can muster, then there is no useful purpose for the fleet at current size.

[republicangel]

Do you remember the hollow military that Carter left us with?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"US defense is not a jobs program. If that's the #1 argument you can muster, then there is no useful purpose for the fleet at current size."

From the article:
"The fleet trains and certifies every ship, sailor, and air wing that heads out to sea, with responsibility over 130 ships and submarines primarily in the Atlantic Ocean."

I'm not an expert on what this command does but it sounds like more than a jobs program. And yes, we do need a fleet at it's current size. Most likely a little larger. I know our current leader thinks his words solve a lot of problems in the world, but the truth of the matter is that a lot of diplomacy gets handled when a carrier group is in the area.

[ScottinVA]

US defense is not a jobs program. If that's the #1 argument you can muster, then there is no useful purpose for the fleet at current size.

True, but the problem here is the way in which this is being done. Like the case of USJFCOM, it's appearing that the cabal of leftists in the Regime wants to jam through these cuts via decree, rather than the correct way of the BRAC.

Just because the king says so, doesn't make it so.