Our last pro-military POTUS left the building in January 1989. It's been a steady down sizing ride ever since then.
Reagan was our last last American president; we are now on our fourth Globalist president.
That's sad but true. If we win our freedom and nation back from the likes of them history will not judge them kindly. Our troops deserved better than what has been done to them the past 20 years. Same faces out of the Nixon/Ford era and a repeating of old mistakes only this time much more PC was involved.
9/11 was the golden opportunity for POTUS grabbing a Reagan moment by restoring our damaged military. That help never arrived nor did anyone DEM or GOP in congress nor White House seriously ever push the issue either. When W nominated Rummy as Sec of Defense I knew we'd been had. His first tenure as Sec of Defense left a lot to be desired. No actually I take that back it helped create a mess that took us directly into The Hollow Carter Military.
But even in the late 1970's carriers did not flunk INSUR, ORE, PEB, or fail Light Offs. LIke my late uncle once told me "you don't flunk those inspections the Navy won't let you". He was a LST C.O. in the late 1960's.
In 1979 we lost an entire Boiler Room and an electrical switchboard due to a DFT line rupture into the switchboard and still kept on trucking mission ready.
Nobody besides a few 0-6's have been held accountable for the negligance going on. But the problems are at the 0-8 and above level and civilian side of the Pentagon as well. An 0-6 does not make decessions as to when their ship enters the yards and how much gets done or funded etc. That is done way above their pay grade.