Posted on 06/22/2015 11:09:11 AM PDT by lowbridge
Leading from behind.
Anyone who thinks Barack Obama never saw a dollar he didn't want to spend . . . OK, that's probably true, but there are some reasons for spending a dollar for which he doesn't have much use. And as we all know, the military is at the top of that list. Every dollar spent on the Armed Forces is a dollar Obama can't spend regulating industry, having the IRS harass his political opponents or illegally subsidizing health care premiums.
So why build enough ships for the Marines to fulfill their responsibilities. President Leading From Behind doesn't want the U.S. to be a global leader anyway, and hey, there's always foreign ships! Maybe they can hitch a ride on them. Now this is the point where you probably think I'm slipping into the absurd to get your attention.
Nope:
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And you stupid libs wonder why I didn’t want my son serving under a Muslim.
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EVERY Chief of Naval Operations and EVERY Commandant of the Marine Corps for the last 40 years should be tried at General Courts-Martial for dereliction of duty in NOT building up the United States’ Military’s “Heavy-Lift” Arena!
This is 0dumbo's segue to World Government.
It’s a combination of not building ships fast enough, and retiring older ones too early.
A LOT of time was wasted redesigning the Wasp-Class LHD into the aviation-enhanced America Class LHA (although it’s really more of an LPH). And now they want the well deck back so will cap the America Class at 3 ships.
On top of that they retired the Tarawas too early. They could have been SLEP’d for another 10-15 years of service. If only to keep them as gap-fillers in the deployment schedules.
The lack of foresight by our military can only be explained as INTENTIONAL.
What an EMBARRASSMENT to our Marines. I’d be ashamed to serve under this Femmie Prez POS. FUBO!
This is 0dumbo’s segue to World Government.
I don’t, by any means, support the present CIC...however, I somehow feel this isn’t a problem that surfaced only in the last few months. With a bureaucracy such as the federal government is, it must take forever go out for bids, award, contract, build and take possession of new amphibious ships. Where was the Navy leadership in this and why is it just coming to light now? I would imagine somebody somewhere in the food chain must have realized the replacement cycle for amphibious assault ships was coming due. This is worse than embarrassing. What’s next, asking other country’s air capabilities for U.S. airborne troops to deploy? Or, perhaps, it is planned negligence designed to reduce deployment capability.
My understanding is that our military leaders want (and ask for) more but the Commie Libs running our government won’t fund what is needed.
Sort of. There was actually an abundence of “foresight”. It was just wrong.
The military traded off current operational capabilities to pay for the development of future ones. They traded the Tarawas and continuing serial production of the Wasps to pay for the F-35, the Americas and the like. Figuring that they could handle the capability gap.
But they screwed up. Just like the Brits did by ditching the Invincibles and Harriers to pay for the QEs and F-35s. Like the US with the Americas the Brits further shot themselves in the foot by switching to a capability (conventional launch and recovery for the QEs) that didn’t pan out then having to switch back.
“Heavy-Lift(Ships AND Aircraft)” has been SERVERLY LACKING w/in the United State Military for DECADES!
A number of years ago I had lunch with a Mrs. Commandant of the Marine Corps, at the Commandant’s house at the Marine Barracks in D.C. Apparently Mr. Commandant of the Marine Corps hated the politics. Tough job.
I hear the military is considering building more F/A-18's. Now this IS smart. It's not stealthy but when you can afford to send in scores of them, a few are sure to hit their mark. And I think building the ONE ENGINE F-35 is NOT wise. As a pilot, I would feel safer in an F/A-18 (two engines).
“..and retiring older ones too early.”
The lack of foresight by our military can only be explained as INTENTIONAL.
Anybody thinking about the Air Force pushing to “retire” the A-10?
History is repeating. On the verge of WW-II the U.S. military was so weak they used broom handles in place of rifles for training, what few Navy ships we had were virtually obsolete and the air force was a decade behind.
Other than the F-35’s STOVL capability, I say flood the hostile territories with F/A-18’s!
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