US Navy worked around its own standards to keep ships underway: sources

When you start cutting corners, it does not take long for the effects to be felt...

Sad that they would do it and put their people in harms way.

WOW! OMG! and Are you SHITTING ME? are the first things I thought of as I read this article. Yes, I have been in the middle or near the end of a deployment and had things come close to or even expire. I remember one ship having to do an Operational Propulsion Readiness Exam as we were leaving the Med and returning to the States. HOwever, I am not sure what Sailors and Supervisors were and are thinking about if training and other standards are up to 2 years out of date in the 7th fleet.
"But those kinds of fixes are intended to be temporary and not a standard operating procedure as it appears to have become, said Bryan Clark, a retired submariner and analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments." I am not sure I can improve on what he was quoted as saying in the article. TEMPORY is not 2 years out of date.