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LTC Jason Mackay
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Yes this is really bad. If it doesn't involve writing apps for iPhones, kids have no interest. It's a death spiral. No industry, begets no work, no work begets, no skilled workforce, because there is no skilled workforce, there are no contracts, no contracts begets no industry. Rinse lather repeat. When the USS Iowa Had the turret explosion in 1989, we had no shipyard workers that could repair it. They brought retirees back to advise them just how to fix the interior damage and seal off the turret. the turret was faced forward and locked in place.

PS not the only defense industry sector where this is a problem.
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Their are 7 billion people on this planet, when you can't find them inside the borders look outside. Their are tons of refugees and immigrants who need a job look at their skills and give them priority on the background checks.
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That is very true you probably have those skilled labors but then they have to be American citizens and have a top secret clearance. The same problems going to happen when Canada goes ahead and goes on their destroyers and frigates rebuild program because their Navy is rusting out. Decades ago Newfoundland and all those areas to the northeast of Canada were all shipyards and they've been suffering just like we have. Everything is made in China or if you could do with an iPhone or an apple or a laptop from Lenovo or something made in Japan or Korea. General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman and other contractors are still made the America but unfortunately but men who have these skills are probably in their eighties and nineties now. It's going to have to be a Manhattan Project of sorts if we have a War break out and we have to all of a sudden make more submarines and ships. But now we have the Russians the Chinese and the Americans have these cruise missiles that could be fired and get anywhere in the world in an hour and a half and take out a shipyard with a tactical nuke so it will be difficult to protect them.
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LTC Jason Mackay
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In the WWII situation, industry was already ramped up to produce lend lease materiel. The warring parties were kind enough to telegraph their intentions by invading and annexing neighbors. This made plain to the public that we needed to prepare for war.

Additionally, war materiel in the 1930s and 1940s was lead pipe simple and similar to already available commercial goods in comparison to today, where the manufacturing technology and types of end items are vastly complex. Example, pop open the back deck of an M1 tank and just soak it in for a second. Our existing capabilities would best be described as pilot plants if we went to war on a global scale against near peer competitors
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