Congress Questions Plan to Pay for 11-Carrier Navy

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[ealgeone]

95,000 tons of U.S. sovereignty deployable around the world without having to ask permission.

[Nextrush]

Offical Uniparty policy in Washington right now is to raise taxes and cut spending to manage the ever increasing debt load they put on.

Military pensions, extended unemployment, food stamp money in the food stamp bill have all been cut recently.

Its no wonder we have to have shows about executive orders, a higher minimum wage, how Obama is bad and Obamacare is wrong.

The emotional arguments hide the political machine’s real policy being made in Washington that will probably lead to fewer aircraft carriers, air groups, divisions etc. etc. etc.

People on the Left and Right have real reasons to be upset with the policymaking inside the beltway by Obama-Boehner-Reid-McConnell etc.

[PAR35]

What’s the 11th carrier? I’m only counting 10.

[PAR35]

Ships:
USS Nimitz (CVN 68), Bremerton, WA
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), Norfolk, VA
USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), San Diego, CA
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), Norfolk, VA
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), Newport News, VA
USS George Washington (CVN 73), Yokosuka, Japan
USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), Bremerton, WA
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), Norfolk, VA
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), San Diego, CA
USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), Norfolk, VA
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4200&tid=200&ct=4

Let’s fire every officer in the US Navy that can’t count to 10.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

“I believe we can put Air Force fighter jets in some Persian Gulf countries. We obviously would want to do this with some political care and we would want to do it in more than one place so we are not hostage to the politics of just one country,” O’Hanlon said.

That plan worked SOOOOO well in September 2011! How well did parking rows of aircraft on display in Hawaii work in December 1941? This O'Hanlon does not get it. The muhamedans don't like non-muhamedans, nor often, fellow muhamedans. Obsama's excuse for 9/11 was that US forces remained in muslim countries, especially Saudi Arabia! Parking USAF aircraft on bases in such countries, is asking for trouble! The only counterpoint to that argument may be Soviet Russia or Chinese stealth weaponry that could hit a carrier.

[Chode]

ping

[Pamlico]

The Gerald Ford is being completed and is on the way. That ship will make the count 11.

[kabar]

Guns versus butter. Butter wins every time. The welfare state will reduce America power. Our days are numbered as a Superpower.

[bigheadfred]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y65wZEtk_DQ&feature=player_detailpage

[napscoordinator]

USS George Washington

What the heck? This is a relatively new carrier. I know it is due for refueling, but why not get rid of the Nimitz? Crazy times. Well of course keeping all of them would be preferred.

[Mariner]

We once, in our lifetimes, had a 15 Carrier/600 ship Navy.

Now this.

I understand the need to adjust to technology and potential adversaries but when it comes to Power Projection, nothing beats a CBG.

Now, for the less glamorous role of keeping the sea lines of communication open there are reasonable alternatives.

It's still about PLATFORMS and being able to keep enough of them at sea.

Today a "Destroyer" in USN classification is 9,000+ tons. That's outright ridiculous. I served on Destroyers that were but 3,500 tons.

The USN needs a new lightweight combatant. Somewhere between 3 and 4k tons...but with all the modern voodoo. At least 100 of them.

That and another 50 light submarines. They don't eve3n have to be nuclear powered.

Hold the Carriers back for all but real need instead of wearing out the hardware a crews for BASIC armed presence.

Then we could get away with 10 Battle Groups.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

........except anywhere near a nuclear Iran....thanks Obama

[Chode]

LOL!!!

[Cringing Negativism Network]

America needs to be aware that China presents a huge challenge, which nobody is really paying attention to.

China has five times America’s population. China now exports more than America does.

And America runs a MASSIVE deficit with China. (appx 400 billion sold to America, vs 100+ sold to China)

America is challenged. Threatened perhaps. Everyone is complaining about Russia, while China is rapidly becoming a major world power.

We need to bring back American industry.

Now.

[rockinqsranch]

"........We obviously would want to do this with some political care and we would want to do it in more than one place so we are not hostage to the politics of just one country,” O’Hanlon said."

Yeah! RIGHT! Then we can be hostage to the politics of several countries.

[RitchieAprile]

carriers are going to become the battleships of the age.

make these invisible to the brahmos and the yakhont
or there will be a lot fewer than 11.

[GladesGuru]

How to pay for a carrier group?

What about ending government subsidies for bastard farming, AKA “welfare”?

[GeronL]

bump

end corporate subsidies, end ag subsidies, end foreign aid etc etc

[puppypusher]

“That plan worked SOOOOO well in September 2011! How well did parking rows of aircraft on display in Hawaii work in December 1941? This O’Hanlon does not get it. The muhamedans don’t like non-muhamedans, nor often, fellow muhamedans. Obsama’s excuse for 9/11 was that US forces remained in muslim countries, especially Saudi Arabia! Parking USAF aircraft on bases in such countries, is asking for trouble! The only counterpoint to that argument may be Soviet Russia or Chinese stealth weaponry that could hit a carrier.”

The U.S.A.F. is right now being down sized to the point thing are getting dangerous.These BRAC committees are forcing the Air Force to place more of its valuable eggs in fewer baskets and it won’t take long before an enemy of this country takes advantage of that by launching a preemptive terror attack or cruise missile attack to take out an entire Air Force wing.

Congress had better rethink these policies before its too late.