Have you ever had someone haul away an old appliance that didnt work anymore? You might have even paid them to get it out of your garage.
Lots to complain about military leadership these days. I dont see this as one of them.
Agree. After iuseful life is over, and any repairs are more correctly called patches, these ships would be unreliable in a battle, one step above floating cardboard. It would be an environmental disaster to just sink one of these without rendering, and that costs money.
The reason it’s a penny cost is that it is a nominal transfer fee. Like junking a car before it’s crashed and burned, this is one case , rare, that a responsible someone is ridding these now behemoths before they breakdown somewhere impossible.