Posted on 08/31/2015 6:25:18 PM PDT by Nachum
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus wants to torpedo all the talk about a shrinking U.S. battle fleet.
Republican presidential candidates are pushing a “narrative,” Mabus said, that President Barack Obama has weakened the military and, in particular, the Navy, at a time of growing demands on American power around the world. But in an interview with POLITICO, Mabus fired a salvo at critics he said don’t know what they’re talking about.
“I have this funny thing about facts,” he laughed in his office on the Pentagon’s E-Ring, surrounded by paintings of classic warships. “I like to get facts into the equation.”
Numbers aren’t the only way to measure seapower, Mabus said — a point Obama famously made to Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential debate. But even a simple count of the number of ships in service today — and, Mabus stressed, under contract — reveals that the Navy is growing, not shrinking.
The Navy has ordered some 70 ships since Mabus came to Washington in 2009, which, accounting for retirements of ships in the coming years, puts the fleet on track to grow to more than 300 and, if Congress cooperates, potentially far beyond that.
If all goes as hoped, the Navy will stabilize at a fleet of 308, Mabus said: “That’s the number of ships we need to do every mission we’ve got.”
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This guy Mabus REALLY knows a lot about the Navy...He spent two hard years as a reserve in the Navy...1970-1972...
(I spent about as much time in the head as he did on duty...*L*)
I was thinking the same thing. I think it also mentioned in the Bible Code.
I don't know about all the numbers, but maybe he is just an Obama butt boy, and says what that POS in the white hut tells him to say.
I have no doubt that is true. Probably, the only thing that POS was qualified to do, was to clean that head. Did he do a crappy job at it? 😂😆😇😀
So this is what is left after ‘the purge’.
Another winner from Soros’ Politico:
“a point Obama famously made to Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential debate”
Drove by that scene many times and was flabbergasted at what I was seeing.
Does Mabus wear as much perfume as Wesley Clark does?
As we in the state of Mississippi said in 1990,Save Us From Mabus, and nowadays, his catdaddy Barry S
Hey Ray! Paintings of great battleships of the past don’t control the seas or discourage agression. Get a clue.
The pussification of the U.S. Navy.
Ray Mabus, like General Dempsey, is a yes man for Valerie and her front man.
I haven’t been active USN in over fifty years,
yet pictures like this still swell my heart.
Obama’s contributors head up a South San Francisco biotech near highway 101 that makes biofuel from algae —it sells for about $150 per gallon.
THIS is the navy guy in charge of buying it —millions of gallons of it for the US EcoNavy.
It’s a big money-laudering op.
Obama’s USN fan Mabus bought 8 MILLION barrels of that overpriced hippy algae fuel:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/13/ray-mabus-navy-defends-biofuels_n_1341328.html
HALF A BILLION $ FOR OBAMA’S BUDDIES.
Says the admiral that wants to keep his job.
Yes, retiring a number of battleships and carriers and replacing them with twice as many patrol boats and hospital ships certainly means that our Navy is “growing”, right Secretary?
I flashed on Navy chief so I thought ....
This is satire, but still pretty good.
http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/06/uss-gabrielle-giffords-christened-gun-free/
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