[DCBryan1]

There is a storm coming.

[103198]

The 4th Congressional District along with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 7th Congressional Districts in Virginia were changed in January by the federal Eastern District court. Due to the change in the composition of the 4th CD (more Dems, less Republicans), Randy has now decided that he has to run in the 2nd to save his throne. He was also considering running in the 7th CD against Dave Brat.

[Robe]

Hope they put in a couple of bucks for the Marine Air Wings..
There's a squadron just off of deployment at MCAS Beaufort with only two flyable F/A-18’s, the rest are are either loaned to another squad on Deployment, or at Jacksonville Fla, getting a spar box replacement.

[Jim Noble]

Build the Montana class.

[yuleeyahoo]

I thought our goal was to switch from blue water to brown water Navy? At least that’s the direction the ship building has been going.

[MichaelCorleone]

-—However, the Defense Department will face $100 billion in cuts from 2018 to 2021 if Congress can’t come to another deal, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told Congress in March.-—

Given the current political environment, forecasting anything past 2017 is useless at best. A lot of changes coming.

The Sleeping Giant is stirring, about to wake up from a long slumber - and he’s hungry...

[DoodleDawg]

“With this legislation, we are rejecting further budget cuts, bending the curve lines, and making a down payment on the 350-ship Navy we need for national defense,” Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., said in a statement.

And why do we need a 350 ship navy to defend just us?

[Lower Deck]

The markup includes an additional $433 million for a new destroyer, $856 million for an amphibious ship and $385 million for a littoral combat ship, as part of what Forbes labeled the largest shipbuilding funding level since 1988. The markup also calls for doubling Tomahawk missile production and a report on producing more fast-attack submarines — an area where the Navy faces a 25 percent reduction by the end of the 2020s as Cold War-era subs retire.

The congressman can throw all the money he wants at the Navy but he can't change one inescapable fact. The U.S. has two shipyards that can build destroyers and amphibious ships, two shipyards that can build submarines, and one shipyard that can build aircraft carriers or overhaul and refuel them. Your capacity is maxed out.

[GregoTX]

I wish they would stop naming these ships after jackass politicians.

[Bishop_Malachi]

“The Navy is legally mandated to maintain 11 carriers; however, it has only 10 on active duty while work continues on the USS Gerald R. Ford. The USS George Washington is undergoing a multiyear overhaul, with other aging carriers scheduled afterward for similar overhauls and nuclear refueling.”

And the next closest navies have...what?...one carrier group? Why do we need 11?

[American in Israel]

So we are going to raise our Navy budget by the price of one Obama vacation how exciting.