The Navy has had serious cost overruns and failed projects, but being the ObamaButts they were they focused significant effort on immaterial things.
The nonperformance of the Zumwalt Littoral warfare ship— high tech high cost and using “green environmental” fuel was a text book case. It could not transit the Panama Canal on its inaugural cruise (after many shakedown failures). Lot of this is US Naval Institute press.
Could not proceed under its own power. Will have to review the “solution”.
That’s one major example. The subs under construction are, afai can determine, on schedule. Gonna be some wicked a@@ firepower and stealth there, and new platforms for a major leg of nuclear strategic deterrence.
obamaumao was focused on... Ray Mabus and his OVER PC personnel crap- including re-design of berthing for crews— like it was a college mixed sex dormitory not a warship. Mabus was a real POC. Talk about order and discipline, Mabus could have taken a good look at Israels vast experience in male female combat units. But... no. Push the lib/ alphabet people agenda.
USNI News, a publication of the US Naval Institute, reported on its website that the ship was in the canal when it lost propulsion. Crew also saw water intrusion in bearings that connect electrical motors to drive shafts, the website reported.
USNI News also reported that the Zumwalt suffered minor cosmetic damage. The ship had been scheduled to arrive in San Diego by the end of the year to start the activation of its weapon system, the website reported.
If that's reason to fire a military secretary then the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Air Force should be next to go.