The United States Military may be heralded as one of the most advanced in the world, but behind the façade lies a naval fleet that is a shadow of its former self.
The U.S. Navy is suffering from an inability to deploy ships to key international conflict zones due to rising maintenance issues on an aging fleet, that is increasingly being sidelined for lengthy repairs, according to military experts and a new government investigation.
Heavy demand on the Navy’s fleet during the pa st decade has compromised the operational conditions of many ships, forcing military leaders to sideline these vessels for lengthy repairs that experts say will severely limit the Navy’s ability to respond to emerging threats in the Persian Gulf and Asia-Pacific regions.
Critical maintenance was completed on time on just 11 percent of the Navy’s aircraft carriers in 2015, causing these vessels to lose around 181 deployment days, according to the latest projections by the Government Accountability Office.
The situation is worse for surface combatant ships. Maintenance on these vessels was completed on time in just 28 percent of cases, causing the fleet to lose around 391 total deployment days, according to the GAO latest report.
Military experts told the Washington Free Beacon that the “Navy crunch” is not expected to end anytime soon, raising questions about the United States’ ability to respond on multiple fronts in key conflict zones.
Why are so few ships being properly maintained? Critics say that the crumbling of the military under Obama’s watch is no accident. Regardless of the reason, it’s delivered us a force that may be incapable of fully defending the country should a major war break out.
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
Not only the Navy, but the USAF as well. B-52’s built in 1962. fighters dang near that old. Politics bought the C-17, but mandated cutting up C-141’s which were still a good airplane, but meant they had to buy more C-17’s. Junk the A-10’s now and replace them with F-35’s, about the same as apples and walnuts, in 2025 or something like that. Leadership and equipment out of date and sense
sounds like Congress and their inability to restore American values
This is sure proof if dosen’t want us protected are able to fight.Are planes are also being scraped.He has stop the making of certain parts we need for our fighter jets.I watched a special on this.We were at 95 percent on military readyness now we are at 45.Our pilots and machanics are sick of him and the way he is purposely cutting their pay and cutting the budget for ammunition and anything they need.While sending billions to country’s that hate us.Dems explain to me how this is good we can’t even fight two wars if we are attacked.Not sure we can Handel one.Obama and the U N have stock piled ammunition and they have took most ground equipment .Hes doing a good job at setting us up for a slaughter.Whe people don’t see this he has fired nearly every top General and replaced them with a Muslim .A Muslim is our security adviser imagine that.Muslims hold many positions that were held by Americans until Obama so tell me again he is not a Muslim and tell me again the good things that come out of cutting down our military and their equipment while fully funding our enemies. Poor insanity!!!!!
Yep you see it he won’t do a damned thing hell with our military deplete and destroy us but that’s his plans
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Obama has never cut one cent from the budget.
Congress did.
Commander and s**t
Due to traitors
cut out all of their vacations and use that money/Also make them repay what we were forced to spend on them