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Navy Could Sideline 17 Support Ships Due to Manpower Issues
USNI ^ | 23 Aug 24 | Sam Lagrone

Posted on 08/24/2024 6:41:55 AM PDT by delta7

Navy Could Sideline 17 Support Ships Due to Manpower Issues

SAM LAGRONE AUGUST 22, 2024 7:52 PM - UPDATED: AUGUST 23, 2024 8:07 AM

Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Yukon (T-AO-202) gives fuel to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) while the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Russell (DDG-59) sails alongside during a replenishment-at-sea, March 12, 2024. US Navy Photo Military Sealift Command has drafted a plan to remove the crews from 17 Navy support ships due to a lack of qualified mariners to operate the vessels across the Navy, USNI News learned.

The MSC “force generation reset” identified two Lewis and Clark replenishment ships, one fleet oiler, a dozen Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transports (EPF) and two forward-deployed Navy expeditionary sea bases that would enter an “extended maintenance” period and have their crews retasked to other ships in the fleet, three people familiar with the plan told USNI News Thursday.

Based on the crew requirements on the platforms, sideling all the ships could reduce the civilian mariner demand for MSC by as many as 700 billets.

A defense official confirmed the basic outline of the plan to USNI News on Thursday. Two sources identified the forward-deployed sea bases as USS Lewis Puller (ESB-3), based in Bahrain in U.S. Central Command, and USS Herschel “Woody” Williams (ESB-4), based in Naval Support Activity Souda Bay, Greece, and operated in U.S. European and Africa Command.

A Navy official, when contacted by USNI News, acknowledged the service was working on a plan to retask civilian mariners but did not provide details.

The new effort, known informally as “the great reset” has yet to be adopted by the Navy and is awaiting approval from Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, USNI News understands.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; War
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……good job Joe! The only good thing about this? Our Navy loses support ships, insuring our Navy can no longer patrol the world’s seas.

Looks like the US forever wars across the globe are finally coming to an end.

1 posted on 08/24/2024 6:41:55 AM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

because of the Woke Crossing Dressing Freaks


2 posted on 08/24/2024 6:53:59 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: delta7

PERSONpower


3 posted on 08/24/2024 6:54:17 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: butlerweave

Get some soy boys to man the ships. Or robots—AI will save us—as long as they are Gay Robots. Maybe we could use mercenary sailors from south of the border.


4 posted on 08/24/2024 6:59:56 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell)
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To: delta7

America’s neo-marxist attack on white men, conservatives, and Christians (who used to be our professional army) and the DC woke replacement with queers and undefined “diversity” is coming home to roost.

The worst consequences are yet to be seen.


5 posted on 08/24/2024 7:03:00 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Jeff Chandler

PER is singular and not allowed.
SON is male dominance in the language.


6 posted on 08/24/2024 7:04:09 AM PDT by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: delta7

I believe Military Sealift Command ships are manned by civilian mariners. MSC has been recruiting mariners like crazy.


7 posted on 08/24/2024 7:07:18 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: delta7

You knew the writing was on the wall for our military when communists in this country started talking an out how soft power was more effective than hard power.


8 posted on 08/24/2024 7:14:03 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Or better yet? How about Commie illegals here with the blessing for the Chinese Communist Party? Then fill the rest of the empty slots with DEI types and cross dressers.


9 posted on 08/24/2024 7:14:13 AM PDT by GOPJ (Kamala kisses up and punches down - cgbg * Walz put tampon dispensers in boys bathrooms...)
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To: delta7

No money for new ships or money to sustain current fleet, no money for ammo, no money for support. And that’s just the Navy.


10 posted on 08/24/2024 7:14:58 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: GOPJ

Paint one pink and “man” it with hearty lasses. Girls only. Lmao


11 posted on 08/24/2024 7:15:23 AM PDT by Kudsman (30yr registered Conservative wants a complete Republican House & Senate. Protect the king.)
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To: delta7
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, .....

.....

I see part of the problem.

12 posted on 08/24/2024 7:29:06 AM PDT by ealgeone
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“Navy Could Sideline 17 Support Ships Due to Manpower Issues”

Take that, She (and Putin)!!!! We don’t need no ships for our Navy, because WE ARE AMERICA, and therefore INVINCIBLE!

By the way, notice how the Zeepers never show up on these types of threads, much less worry about how our screw-up military would do if actually having to fight REAL MEN - it’s almost like they want us to get into WW3, and then lose.


13 posted on 08/24/2024 7:29:36 AM PDT by BobL
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To: butlerweave

COVID MANDATES DIDN’T HELP


14 posted on 08/24/2024 7:33:33 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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I see. No problem with that.

In fact I would wager that the boys on the flattop would be thrilled to see that pink support ship pull up next to them during unrep.

15 posted on 08/24/2024 7:40:14 AM PDT by Kudsman (30yr registered Conservative wants a complete Republican House & Senate. Protect the king.)
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To: delta7

I see the woke Navy is working out real good for them…


16 posted on 08/24/2024 7:46:53 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: delta7

Can the Navy say “manpower” these days? Should it be ‘personpower’?


17 posted on 08/24/2024 8:15:22 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: delta7

…and I thought lack of staffing in the garden department at Menards this morning was a serious concern. 🤣


18 posted on 08/24/2024 8:15:43 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: Maine Mariner
I believe Military Sealift Command ships are manned by civilian mariners. MSC has been recruiting mariners like crazy.

That's correct. And mariner recruiting efforts have been terrible in the past three years as well.

19 posted on 08/24/2024 8:16:23 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: BobL
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20 posted on 08/24/2024 8:20:27 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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