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:
Obama is a traitor to America and our troops…
All of these ships outlived their usefulness to the Navy. The USS Forrestal was commissioned in 1955 and decommissioned in 1993 and the cost to refurbish and make her seaworthy would be astronomical. Same with the other ships listed. Why does everything have to be a conspiracy??
Do what I intend to do: Vote for Trump, both early and often…
IF he leaves!
Headline…A FEW GOOD MEN/WOMEN looking for a workable SHIP to DEFEND AMERICA. Navy needs your HELP.
The Navy still has 418 ships making our navy the largest in the world, except for China and a large percentage of their ships are patrol boats. We have 10 of the 19 aircraft carriers in the world……
John Wright …you my friend are a complete uninformed moron.
obana needs to be arrested and put in chains
IMPEACH, DEPORT, OR’A HANG’HIM. TREASON, MURDER, TRAITOR.
The next president will have to repair all the damage that Obama has caused & then be critized for spending too much!