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Navy’s shipbuilding budget could see Reagan-era levels
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| 4/20/16
| Erik Slavin
Posted on 04/20/2016 5:37:13 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley
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posted on
04/20/2016 5:41:20 AM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
To: DCBryan1
Ships are useless without crews to sail them.
L
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posted on
04/20/2016 5:43:46 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Lurker
Lots of women available to serve in combat now. Draft them
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posted on
04/20/2016 5:47:10 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: markomalley
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.
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posted on
04/20/2016 5:54:32 AM PDT
by
103198
(It's the metadata stupid...)
To: markomalley
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.
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posted on
04/20/2016 5:55:15 AM PDT
by
Robe
To: markomalley
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posted on
04/20/2016 5:57:37 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Ryan never could have outfought Trump. I never knew, until this day, that it was Romney all along.)
To: markomalley
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.
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posted on
04/20/2016 5:59:57 AM PDT
by
yuleeyahoo
( Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. - Groucho Marx)
To: Lurker
Nah. They can all be autonomous drones. We don’t need no stinking people.
Robots man, get with it. /s
Right.
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posted on
04/20/2016 6:00:43 AM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
To: markomalley
-—However, the Defense Department will face $100 billion in cuts from 2018 to 2021 if Congress cant 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...
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posted on
04/20/2016 6:09:16 AM PDT
by
MichaelCorleone
(Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
To: Jim Noble
I’m trying to get the Montana in World of Warships... I want my Yamato killer.
To: Jim Noble
“Build the Montana class.”
Is that better/more appropriate than the Nimitz class?
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posted on
04/20/2016 6:10:30 AM PDT
by
MichaelCorleone
(Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
To: markomalley
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?
To: Jim Noble
I see - the Nimitz is an aircraft carrier while the Montana is a battleship.
Different functions.
Should have looked that up before posting to you.
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posted on
04/20/2016 6:13:40 AM PDT
by
MichaelCorleone
(Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
To: markomalley
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.
To: markomalley
I wish they would stop naming these ships after jackass politicians.
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posted on
04/20/2016 6:19:42 AM PDT
by
GregoTX
To: markomalley
“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?
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posted on
04/20/2016 6:22:57 AM PDT
by
Bishop_Malachi
(Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
To: markomalley
So we are going to raise our Navy budget by the price of one Obama vacation how exciting.
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posted on
04/20/2016 6:29:53 AM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: Jim Noble
Probably do not have the technology anymore to build this type of warship. The big gun shop at the Washington Navy Yard closed decades ago. They built the 16 inch 45 and 50 caliber guns for the Maryland class, North Carolina Class, Massachusetts class and the Iowa class battleships. All the machinery has been scrapped, and the skilled labor has for the most part gone to their final rewards by now. Doubt any steel mill in this country has the capability, equipment or skill level to Krupp harden 18 inch thick steel, let alone weld it. I could be wrong, but I don’t think so.
To: Bull Snipe
Free trade is destroying out ability to make war.
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posted on
04/20/2016 7:28:58 AM PDT
by
RedWulf
((Trump supporter))
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