Posted on Sep 7, 2017
New evidence of dismal readiness among Navy’s Japan-based ships
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When push comes to shove CDR (Join to see) LCDR (Join to see) LCDR Rabbah Rona Matlow LT Brad McInnis ENS (Join to see) PO1 William "Chip" Nagel PO2 Robert Aitchison SN Greg Wright CMDCM Gene Treants
New evidence of dismal readiness among Navy’s Japan-based ships
Posted from navytimes.com
7th Fleet
Operations
Readiness
Maintenance
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"The Navy’s current 277-ship fleet is down from the 333 ships the Navy had in 1998, but the number of ships deployed overseas has consistently remained at about 100 vessels, meaning individual ships are deployed more to maintain the same level of presence." This is exactly what I have been saying either we build more ships and triple the force level to add training and support billets ashore or we cut down on missions. CDR (Join to see) LT Brad McInnis PO1 Tony Holland PO1 Jay Lefever
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PO2 Robert Aitchison
I think the planners have been and continue to work under the bad assumption that around every corner that they will be able to dial down optempo and the ships and crews won't be so overworked.
After the cold war (or really Desert Storm) they decommissioned probably twice as many ships as they should have and again in the early-mid 2000s they decommissioned the Spru-cans (31 ships!) & Kidd Class and in the 2010s started decoming the remaining OHPs.
Now that the force has shrunk and budgets have shrunk alongside it it's much harder to get new budget to increase the fleet size again.
Add to that making grossly false assumptions about how long it would take to design and build the first Gerald R. Ford class carriers leading to a gap in carriers as well.
After the cold war (or really Desert Storm) they decommissioned probably twice as many ships as they should have and again in the early-mid 2000s they decommissioned the Spru-cans (31 ships!) & Kidd Class and in the 2010s started decoming the remaining OHPs.
Now that the force has shrunk and budgets have shrunk alongside it it's much harder to get new budget to increase the fleet size again.
Add to that making grossly false assumptions about how long it would take to design and build the first Gerald R. Ford class carriers leading to a gap in carriers as well.
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I think if one looks, one will find similar issues throughout the fleet. Japan ships have a higher optempo and maintenance is more difficult, but all ships in the fleet are struggling right now...
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That is sad news PO1 Tony Holland that there is "dismal readiness" on the U.S. Navy's Japan-based naval vessels. Hopefully, this can be turned around in the short term.
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