Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?

[phrogdriver]

We should go back to coal fired steam ships while we are at it.

How else do you think they're going to make the steam?

The new JFK is going to hurtle into battle at 10 knots, or as fast as the guys at the boilers can shovel.

 

[Brett327]

I fear that our acting SecNav lacks the ability to see past ideological loyalties and tell his masters what a colossally stupid idea this is. I'm sure Jerry Hendrix's head is nodding continuously like a cheap dashboard bobble head.

 

[phrogdriver]

I fear that our acting SecNav lacks the ability to see past ideological loyalties and tell his masters what a colossally stupid idea this is. I'm sure Jerry Hendrix's head is nodding continuously like a cheap dashboard bobble head.

Where is Hendrix in all this? Is that a story?

 

[Brett327]

Where is Hendrix in all this? Is that a story?

He's the Associate Director for Shipbuilding Programs at OMB.

 

[WhiskeySierra6]

I presume this will get slow rolled and Trump will move on to the next shiny object placed in front of him. This would apply to CVN-81 and subsequent. This obviously deserves the most forceful pushback possible.

I say the following as an EMALS true believer and attendee of the PMA-251 change of command yesterday. All signs point to 81 having steam cats. Slow roll does not look like a viable COA.