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Report: Overworked Navy at a tipping point
Stars & Stripes ^ | 11/28/15 | Hugh Lessig

Posted on 11/28/2015 12:36:40 PM PST by markomalley

Edited on 11/28/2015 12:42:31 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The Navy faces a crisis on the near horizon with too few ships, tired sailors and emerging global threats, leaving the Pentagon with no easy choices, a new study concludes.

The main problem facing the Navy and Marine Corps is "that demand for naval forces exceeds the supply they can sustainably deliver," according to the report from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) released Nov. 18.


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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: alinsky; communityorganizer; globalscale; obama
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1 posted on 11/28/2015 12:36:40 PM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Swamp the system.


2 posted on 11/28/2015 12:39:21 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: markomalley
The only stupid questions are the ones that are never asked. So what happened to the stimulus money?
3 posted on 11/28/2015 12:39:51 PM PST by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: jmacusa

Gone down the community organizing cesspit.


4 posted on 11/28/2015 12:42:27 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: markomalley

Haven’t they dramatically reduced the number of active enlisted in the last few years? Well golly, this is what happens when you pluck almost all the feathers from the eagles’ tail.


5 posted on 11/28/2015 12:42:39 PM PST by lee martell
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To: markomalley

Pulling back sounds like a good start... We don’t need to be in Syria or the Ukraine.
We probably owe to our allies to keep pressure on the PRC, though.


6 posted on 11/28/2015 12:45:18 PM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: jmacusa

Obama is destroying our military readiness while stirring up as much global Muslim unrest as he possibly can. They’ve already swamped Europe and are infiltrating America as rapidly as they can.


7 posted on 11/28/2015 12:46:20 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: jmacusa
So what happened to the stimulus money?

Dis guy got it:

Lloyd Blankfien, Goldman Sachs

8 posted on 11/28/2015 12:46:21 PM PST by Regulator
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To: Jim Robinson

Yep.


9 posted on 11/28/2015 12:47:23 PM PST by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. ~ Þ)
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To: markomalley

Kind of like Guam.


10 posted on 11/28/2015 12:50:04 PM PST by Fido969
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To: jmacusa
So what happened to the stimulus money?

It was spent on "shovel ready" projects.

11 posted on 11/28/2015 12:52:10 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: markomalley

The Chicoms are raughing their collective butts off.

5.56mm


12 posted on 11/28/2015 12:56:16 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: jmacusa

what happened to the stimulus money?


It went to supporters of Obama.


13 posted on 11/28/2015 12:57:11 PM PST by volunbeer
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To: markomalley

Just more of Barry’s Fundamental Transformation.


14 posted on 11/28/2015 1:06:55 PM PST by FourPeas (Tone matters.)
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To: jmacusa
So what happened to the stimulus money?

Look on the bright side. The SEIU and big bundlers got richer!

15 posted on 11/28/2015 1:09:26 PM PST by Gritty (The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates. So screw the candlelight vigil. - Mark Steyn)
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To: markomalley; Jim Robinson; lee martell; jmacusa

As a suscriber to U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, the May issue is always of interest to me. It lists the Admirals in the Navy and the commissioned ships in the Navy. The number of Admirals now always exceeds the number of commissioned ships.


16 posted on 11/28/2015 1:10:32 PM PST by Retain Mike
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To: jmacusa

It paid for teachers health care benefits in one of my state’s richest communities:

This was just two fiscal quarters in Massachusetts, stimulus money going to pay for teacher’s unions healthcare in Sudbury, MA.

FY 2010 Q2
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH Health Insurance premiums for district employees $1,184,601
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH School employees health insurance payments (Apr-Jun) $382,238
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH GROUP 4th quarter FY09 health insurance premiums $265,251

FY2010 Q3
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH School employees health insurance payments (Apr-Jun) $382,238
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH Health Insurance premiums for district employees $1,184,601
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH GROUP FY10 health insurance premiums $183,765
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH GROUP 4th quarter FY09 health insurance premiums $26,5251
MINUTEMAN-NASHOBA HEALTH GROUP Health Insurance Trust $241,820
MINUTEMAN/NASHOBA HEALTH Emp por health insurance premiums for school employees $18,8029

The State had the website that was supposed to provide transparency, which it did, if you took the time to dig ferociously and determinedly through pages of dead ends and deliberately confusing layout, then exported the data and put it into Excel where you could slice and dice it to get the info out of it. I was pissed when I saw a state wildlife center that had been renovated in the town with stimulus money (you know the infuriating sign they use to stick it in your face, “Project Funded by The Recovery and Reinvestment Act”, and when I looked in through the locked windows of the beautifully designed and built ranger offices, there were Herman Miller chairs.

Herman Miller chairs.

So I went to find out exactly how much of my taxes were spent on it, and never did find out, but I kept seeing the MINUTEMAN/NASHOBA HEALTH thing keep popping up, and had never heard about it. When I looked it up, it was the health care plan used by the Massachusetts Teacher’s Unions. And Sudbury is one of the wealthiest communities in the state.

You can imagine where that money went, if this went on in this town, how much more of it went on everywhere else in the USA.


17 posted on 11/28/2015 1:22:54 PM PST by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: Retain Mike

Today we have about 280 active Navy ships.

In 1993 we had over 450.

Is the world more stable now than in 1993?


18 posted on 11/28/2015 1:26:14 PM PST by wrench
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To: Retain Mike

Proceedings used to be an interesting read, my dad was a lifetime subscriber, but by the time he passed on, it was already showing its cracks.

Even still, probably interesting to read, I’ll bet there are plenty of articles about environmentally friendly tactics, green fuel, and articles about day care and advancement of women and minorities to command positions.


19 posted on 11/28/2015 1:26:45 PM PST by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: rlmorel

And the push for unisex uniforms......


20 posted on 11/28/2015 1:28:08 PM PST by wrench
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