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Navy cancels ship briefings after damning internal report
Politico ^ | April 7, 2024 | Paul McLeary, Connor O'Brien & Lee Hudson

Posted on 04/10/2024 7:08:11 AM PDT by Twotone

As the Navy’s largest U.S. trade show gets underway on Monday, officers in charge of the service’s marquee shipbuilding programs won’t offer the usual briefings with reporters and analysts about them.

That break from the tradition of sharing program updates at the Navy’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition comes just days after the Navy announced that four of its most critical shipbuilding programs are years behind schedule.

The Navy’s top admiral and civilian secretary have still not responded to questions about a damning Navy report released Tuesday outlining the sweeping failure of the Navy and its industrial partners to make expected progress on two submarine programs, an aircraft carrier and a new class of frigates.

“Our nation should be incredibly frustrated to see such systemic delays to our marquee shipbuilding programs,” Rep. Rob Wittman, (R-Va.) said.

The delays, from one to three years each depending on the program, come as the Navy and Pentagon pour billions into modernizing and upgrading shipyards in an attempt to build and repair ships more quickly and keep pace with China. Beijing’s navy has already surpassed the U.S. in size.

But supply chain issues caused by Covid and the Navy’s insistence on changing the design of its ships even as workers build them have thrown the service’s plans into uncertainty.

Aware of the issues for years, the Navy is still unsure how to fix them.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: defense; navy

1 posted on 04/10/2024 7:08:11 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Start firing FlAG Officers and civilian contractors...........................


2 posted on 04/10/2024 7:10:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Twotone

Well, they can certainly say that they’re first in DEI - isn’t that more important for the navy instead of something like building and maintaining ships?

“Navy Focused on DEI, Now It Can’t Figure Out How to Build Ships”

“America’s Navy values diversity, equality and inclusivity,” the woke Navy leadership claims. “We believe that when a diverse group of individuals come together to do a job, they can do it better because of their differences.”

https://www.frontpagemag.com/navy-focused-on-dei-now-it-cant-figure-out-how-to-build-ships/


3 posted on 04/10/2024 7:11:32 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Twotone

supply chain issues caused by Covid 😵‍💫


4 posted on 04/10/2024 7:11:51 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: OldHarbor

Any excuse for failure will do.


5 posted on 04/10/2024 7:15:21 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: Twotone

In a way this is good- now the enemedia can’t run to our enemies overseas and tell them every blessed move that the navy plans to do- nor will they be able to tell the enemy the designs of the ship so that the enemy can prepare better.

I be,eive is was CBS who during the gu,f war was telling the positions of our militaries snipers and getting them killed. When asked to stop report8ng 0n their positions, they refused to stop. And they also reported o. Where the 4ed cross was which prompted the enemy to attack the red cross as well.

The left scream about “ethics being g violated by Israel” but the enemedia wouldn’t know ethics if it bit them on the ankle.


6 posted on 04/10/2024 7:23:31 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Twotone

We spent a year in dry dock. When we finally got underway, our ship broke down within 15 minutes. We had to be towed back to the pier.


7 posted on 04/10/2024 7:26:48 AM PDT by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: roving

The Navy’s best and brightest have been run off by homo, trans and really undecided mentally ill morons.


8 posted on 04/10/2024 8:22:21 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: Twotone

The longer they are behind schedule, the better. With any luck, most surface ships will be cancelled. The majority of those planned or being built are obsolete today. The Houthis have proven the era of gunboat diplomacy is over. When we are blundered into a shooting, proxy less war with Iran, Russia, China or the NORKS, we will find the carrier battle group is nothing but a watery grave for thousands of USN sailors. Build submarines, not surface targets.


9 posted on 04/10/2024 8:36:19 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: All

30-Year Naval Academy Teacher Details Depth
Of DEI Rot In America’s Military Institutions


Everybody respects each other’s pronouns, but they cant
defend American families if their lives depended on it.

.....the NAVY’s obsession is creating “resentment within the ranks,”students who speak out against
DEI-focused promotion system are punished, the ONLY way they can enforce this atrocity........


10 posted on 04/10/2024 8:43:17 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: Red Badger
Start firing FlAG Officers

The ones that are saying that Trump, not their own navy incompetence, is the real national security risk?

11 posted on 04/10/2024 8:45:59 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Do not submit)
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Nut case Biden has “reordered” U.S. military priorities into a disastrous left-wing social experiment:
<><>employing enlisted drag queens to boost recruitment
<><>using taxpayer funds to host LGBT “pride” events on military installations,
<><>promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
<><>failing to address the biggest challenges hampering U.S. military readiness.

Case in point: The US Navy and Pentagon pour billions of tax dollars into modernizing and
upgrading shipyards to build and repair ships more quickly and keep pace with China.

Yet, Beijing’s navy has already surpassed the U.S. in size.

The Year of Hating Whitey helped accelerate the “woke” destruction of the US Navy.

“America’s Navy values diversity, equality and inclusivity,” the woke Navy leadership claims. “We believe that when a diverse group of individuals come together to do a job, they can do it better because of their differences.”

Now everybody in the Navy “respect’s” each other’s pronouns
..... But They Can’t Figure Out How to Build Ships.


12 posted on 04/10/2024 8:48:46 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: All

Nut case Biden has “reordered” U.S. military priorities into a disastrous left-wing social experiment:
<><>employing enlisted drag queens to boost recruitment
<><>using taxpayer funds to host LGBT “pride” events on military installations,
<><>promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
<><>failing to address the biggest challenges hampering U.S. military readiness.

Case in point: The US Navy and Pentagon pour billions of tax dollars into modernizing and
upgrading shipyards to build and repair ships more quickly and keep pace with China.

Yet, Beijing’s navy has already surpassed the U.S. in size.

The Year of Hating Whitey helped accelerate the “woke” destruction of the US Navy.

“America’s Navy values diversity, equality and inclusivity,” the woke Navy leadership claims. “We believe that when a diverse group of individuals come together to do a job, they can do it better because of their differences.”

Now everybody in the Navy “respect’s” each other’s pronouns
..... But They Can’t Figure Out How to Build Ships.


13 posted on 04/10/2024 8:48:47 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: Sirius Lee

Yes and close Annapolis for 8 years..................


14 posted on 04/10/2024 8:50:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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