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:
UNSTAND this! When it comes to WAR every SHIP will be required. LESS doesn’t mean more it mean LESS fire power.
He might as well give muslims the key to the locke
deport all illegals and muslims and take obummer with you
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Neither THE PEOPLE nor the military will be permitted to be armed.
In this case and only this case, his title should be “IDIOT IN CHIEF” instead of “‘Commander in Chief”. Just sayin’. I was a Reagan raised sailor who made Chief just before the Clinton years of Political Correctness, so I call it as I see it, and no holds barred. If asked a question I gave an honest answer, and it was not always what was wanted to be heard, which explains why I remained a Chief for 11 years.
That is just what Obama wants. Once we are unable to defend our country, it will be easy to deal a death blow to America. Then it will be up for grabs to the highest bidder.
I’m no Obama supporter but I was in the navy for 20 years and I served aboard most of the carriers this article talks about. On top of that, after I retired from the navy I went to work at the Puget Sound Navy Yard where all of these ships except Forrestal and Enterprise are kept in mothballs. I can tell you none of these ships with the exception of Enterprise are any where near useable again for anything but a reef or a floating museum. The Independance has been there for over 20 years and is completly stripped and is scheduled to be sunk and used to build an artificial reef. The others are just about as bad. These old conventional powered ships require a whole fleet of support ships just to keep them at sea. They must be fuled constantly while on deployment and require allot more crew members than the new nuclear powered ships. When I retired three years ago the only one left they were actually keeping in reserve was the Kitty Hawk and she had just been decommissioned. I loved these old ships and they took me to adventures all over the world when I was a young man, but their time has come and gone. The new ships they are building are far superior in every way to the ones they are replacing and can stay at sea for years if need be.
This seems like a very BAD idea to me.
Obama is a nut case and he doesn’t understand and he will never will understand either.