Being prepared for a conflict means keeping serviceable the old ships, especially carriers. Currently there are six oil fueled platforms in mothballs, but ready to spring to service if needed. Then Obama found them.
Since the start of 2014, the Obama Administration has been actually rushing these conventional-fueled ships to Brownsville, Texas, to be scrapped. Four of these ships, USS Forrestal (CV 59), USS Saratoga (CV 60), USS Ranger (CV 61), and USS Constellation (CV 64) have been towed to Brownsville, and a fifth, USS Independence (CV 62), is slated to join them.
That is bad enough, but a sixth carrier, USS Enterprise (CVN 65), was also slated for the scrap yard, and the Obama Administration has already begun that task, even as Russia and China have become more aggressive. How Obama guts the navy is on the next page:
Have you ever served, Diane? These ships are no longer serviceable, and if you had served, you would know this. Folks like you are the reason I beleive that EVERY person should serve 2 years in the Armed Forces of the US, no exception except for medical, to become a citizen, No service, no citizenship. Obama would have never become president with that in place, and neither would some of the fools that think they know anything. You disparaged Mr. Bledsoe and his service, and I suggest you apologize, or else you are nothing but an unAmerican hater of the military.
Hector, I spent 18 months on the John F Kennedy in 1977 and 78. The Forrestal was a nasty ship then. Even the the Kennedy has been decommissioned, I heard some group is trying to make a museum out of it. Who knows?
Thank you for the advise
he should be in jail