Thank you for your service, but CVN-71 is not the Rosie. It is the TR, the Big Stick, the Roosevelt, but not the Rosie. My son spent four years on the TR, including the Gulf War. Don't let him hear you call it the Rosie.
It was funding for another carrier. But if you had looked toward the bottom where I put up the bold underlined print that should have explained it.
This thread has Rumsfield accusing Clinton of shorting the military and rightfully so. However I'm showing the shorting started under Bush sr and Sec. of Defense Cheney. Have you been following the USS KENNEDY threads? If you think it was bad then you must have missed this part. Keep in mind what Rumsfield said. The previous POTUS made a mess of the military. Now the following paragraph was written in August of 1993. Clinton took office Jan 20, 1993. A ship does not get this way over night here's that paragraph.
The America needs constant attention. Commissioned in 1965, it is showing its age. A month before leaving Norfolk, a senior enlisted crew member complained to his congressman: The ship was operating on only two of its six electric generators, without radar and unable to pump fuel. This would be its third six-month cruise in three years, and without the standard 18 months at home for repairs, salt water and full steaming had taken their toll.
The pot calling the kettle black? Three six month deployments in three years when a carriers cycle for that is 5 years in a carriers normal cycle. Yes Warner is from Virgina the only state with a shipyard left that can produce a carrier thanks to everyones cuts.
But what is getting lost in this is why are the two newest conventional powered carriers in this shape? Their age? No I don't think so. Kitty Hawk and Constellation are nearly 5-10 years older and the AMERICA was decommed in 1996. So why then? To get rid of carriers period namely conventionals. The KITTY HAWK & CONNY will be decommed this decade. The AMERICA and KENNEDY would have made it possibly to 2015-2020 if they had been properly maintained.
BTW I was in when the other Rossevelt was just being decommed. The nick name was Rosie.