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Pentagon delays deployment of carrier to Mideast over budget woes
Reuters ^ | Feb 6, 2013 | David Alexander

Posted on 02/06/2013 2:53:37 PM PST by mdittmar

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To: Chode

We could send them out with the Air Wing and not let them fly. If we expected them to actually fly and maintain day/night quals expect to refuel JP-5 twice/week for a total of 4-5 million gallons. Equipment tends to break when it’s being used - electronics, weapons systems, pumps. If you’re not at sea, you don’t need to replace them.


21 posted on 02/06/2013 4:20:58 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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To: RFEngineer

“...Do we now have a merely “passive aggressive” military?”

You be the judge. Under Obama their new motto is, “US NAVY: A Global Force For Good”

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This does seem passive aggressive. Can anyone interpret what this is supposed to mean?

“Sometimes we rush in after the storm.
Sometimes we are the storm.”

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=us+navy+a+global+force+for+good&qs=AS&sk=&FORM=QBIR&pq=us%20navy%20a%20glo&sc=1-13&sp=1&qs=AS&sk=#view=detail&id=4A54FC4B459205B47BE840C743391ECC090A1B05&selectedIndex=5


22 posted on 02/06/2013 4:33:18 PM PST by 444Flyer (Obama killed the Twinkie, but not the terrorists in Benghazi. What's wrong with this picture?)
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To: GreyHoundSailor
yup, yer right...
23 posted on 02/06/2013 4:42:51 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: mdittmar
Below is a portion of the released statement of Pentagon Press Secretary George Little: "The secretary of defense has delayed the deployment of the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) and the USS Gettysburg (CG-64).

Whatever happened to the days when it was nobody's G.D. business where navy ships were, or weren't?

24 posted on 02/06/2013 5:58:15 PM PST by Dartman (Mubarak and Gaddafi are going to look like choirboys when this is over)
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