Posted on Jul 14, 2014
The Army's best kept secret- who has more boats- the Army or Navy?
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As a young Lt. on a trip to Ft. Eustis for a transportation conference (circa 1997), I was given a tour of the Army's water terminal operations. To my amazement, the Army had numerous "transportation" units that included large tugs, floating machine shops and numerous barges/logsitics support vehicles. I was also briefed at the time by the chief warrant officer on the tour that the Army had more boats than the Navy. Is this still true? Would like to hear all sides of this- should be a good debate.
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Absolutely not. The army only has 118 boats to the Navy's overall fleet of 456 (including support vessels and USNS ships). This doesn't even include the hundreds of small craft in use by Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, Coastal Riverine Units, and Naval Special Warfare. Also, as to other comments that the Army has more aircraft than the Air Force, also not true. According to the most recent DoD Aviation Plan, the Air Force has 5,199 assorted aircraft to the Army's 5,117.
This has to be one of the biggest myths that is constantly repeated in the Army.
This has to be one of the biggest myths that is constantly repeated in the Army.
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