Posted on 01/27/2022 2:39:41 AM PST by 11th_VA
If the Navy is forced to live with a yearlong continuing resolution, the service would have to cut the number of recruits it adds by nearly 10,000, prevent 37,000 moves, and stop the construction of ships it says are crucial to national security, service leaders are warning lawmakers.
A continuing resolution, or CR, is the funding mechanism that keeps spending fixed when Congress fails to agree on a budget bill. Lawmakers are already three months late in delivering a new spending law, with no immediate end to the stalemate in sight.
In a hearing with the House Appropriations Committee earlier this month, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday warned a CR would mean cutting the number of new recruits for the service to 23,000 from the 31,500 accessions originally planned, as well as halting initial special and incentive pay and selected reenlistment bonuses.
Aside from slashing the number of recruits the Navy plans to take on in the next fiscal year, Gumbleton noted that a yearlong continuing resolution would also impact sailor moves.
"There would be an impact where we would literally cut 37,000 moves," Gumbleton said…
"We would not do maintenance on five submarines and two aircraft carriers," Gumbleton noted.
He added that the Navy would need to "reduce the flying hour counts to all our pilots, Navy and Marine Corps, by 10 or 20% in the last quarter and a half of the fiscal year."…
The top Democrats and Republicans on the House and Senate Appropriations committees met for talks Jan. 13, expressing optimism about reaching a deal, but Congress left town for a weeklong recess this week without an agreement as the current CR's Feb. 18 expiration date looms.
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Given it’s an election year the chances of a full up budget by 10/1 are nil.
The usual Navy bullroar.
But ‘full speed ahead’ with CRT training…
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Which sucks up time, personnel, and money needed elsewhere. Sounds like typical Democrat ploy: threaten security to force action by legislators to get more money.
America’s Back!
Why would any Patriotic freedom loving American purposely join a left-wing run organization whose main goal is to get rid of Patriotic freedom loving Americans.
Just in time for a war with Russia.
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