Blue Angels and Fleet Weeks are tied towards recruiting, therefore, they will be protected.
And for those that doubt me, I will gladly share the 60 page CNIC instruction and 75 page Region instruction governing Air shows and Fleet Weeks!!
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Blue Angels and Fleet Weeks are tied towards recruiting, therefore, they will be protected.
And for those that doubt me, I will gladly share the 60 page CNIC instruction and 75 page Region instruction governing Air shows and Fleet Weeks!!
We had a stop-loss/stop-move in the 2003 time frame, forget the exact dates. That was for a different reason though.
Harrier Dude
Living the dream
I'm sure they'll find a way to get you to DC/Quantico as soon as possible.
Have fun with that!
That's one location I'm almost 100% sure I'm not going to !
Ugly does note begin to cover this.
Dear Navy Leaguers,
I received the following information from the CNO regarding the impact of funding issue on Naval operations. It is very sobering. Please excuse some of the acronyms but I wanted to forward this message precisely as it was received.
Best regards,
Malcolm Fages VADM USN (ret)
Charleston Council President
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“Admirals, I know you are all interested and continue to be engaged in our Navy. I will begin a regular drumbeat to keep you informed on current issues and developments. One of the most pressing is the Navy's budget situation.
We have budget shortfalls today because we are funded under a Continuing Resolution (CR) and may have significant additional budget reductions starting in March because of sequestration. My most immediate concern is to our Operation & Maintenance (OMN) account.
We are operating today with a reduced budget because the CR funds us at FY12 base budget levels. These levels are inadequate for our needs in FY13, falling $3.2B short of our planned OMN budget. Due to another $1.4B of unplanned growth, operating under a CR for the entire fiscal year leaves us about $4.6 billion below our OMN requirements in FY13.
Additionally, the CR provides only limited ability to transfer funds from investment accounts to OMN to cover our shortfalls. Because of this, we need to cut back on ops and maintenance to get our spending rate down where it needs to be to remain within the controls of a yearlong CR.
We are making the following reductions, starting now, to ensure we can fund ongoing deployments and other mission-critical activities. These reductions are intended to be reversible and will continue until a spending bill is passed or we receive authority from Congress to reprogram money from investment accounts into operations and maintenance:
- Plan to cancel the majority of surface ship maintenance availabilities at private shipyards between April and September. This will affect about 30 of our 187 surface ships. We will preserve most availabilities at our public shipyards, but expect throughput to be reduced due to civilian personnel actions that are discussed below.
- Plan to cancel all aircraft depot maintenance from April to September, affecting about 250 aircraft.
- Reduce spending on base operating support and plan to cancel repair and modernization of nearly all piers, runways, buildings and other facilities through Sep 2013.
- Terminate temporary employees and implement a civilian hiring freeze - this will reduce our shipyard workforce by more than 3,000 - almost 10% of the workforce.
- Reduce overhead by cutting IT support, cancelling non mission-essential conferences, and severely limiting travel.
These steps come at a price. Much like putting off an oil change because you can't afford the $20 service; we save in the short-term, but shorten the car's life and add to the backlog of work for later. If sequestration comes on March 1, we will have an additional $4B OMN reduction for FY13. This will require more aggressive actions unless we gain authority to move investment funds into OMN. These actions include:
- Stop nearly all non-deployed operations for training and exercises, which will ultimately prevent CSGs and ARGs from deploying.
- Further reduce deployed operations in the Middle East and Pacific.
- We will retain some CSG training for late FY13 deployers (Nimitz and George H.W. Bush CSGs), but in FY14 we will likely not have trained replacements for our deployed units.
Our Fleet Commanders are studying this issue closely, and we will preserve as much maintenance and training as possible throughout FY13 and into FY14. However, once we shut down our sustainment training it will take our ships and squadrons about 9 months to conduct the maintenance and training needed to be certified to deploy again.
Jon”
Dear Navy Leaguers,
I received the following information from the CNO regarding the impact of funding issue on Naval operations. It is very sobering. Please excuse some of the acronyms but I wanted to forward this message precisely as it was received.
Best regards,
Malcolm Fages VADM USN (ret)
Charleston Council President
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“Admirals, I know you are all interested and continue to be engaged in our Navy. I will begin a regular drumbeat to keep you informed on current issues and developments. One of the most pressing is the Navy's budget situation.
We have budget shortfalls today because we are funded under a Continuing Resolution (CR) and may have significant additional budget reductions starting in March because of sequestration. My most immediate concern is to our Operation & Maintenance (OMN) account.
We are operating today with a reduced budget because the CR funds us at FY12 base budget levels. These levels are inadequate for our needs in FY13, falling $3.2B short of our planned OMN budget. Due to another $1.4B of unplanned growth, operating under a CR for the entire fiscal year leaves us about $4.6 billion below our OMN requirements in FY13.
Additionally, the CR provides only limited ability to transfer funds from investment accounts to OMN to cover our shortfalls. Because of this, we need to cut back on ops and maintenance to get our spending rate down where it needs to be to remain within the controls of a yearlong CR.
We are making the following reductions, starting now, to ensure we can fund ongoing deployments and other mission-critical activities. These reductions are intended to be reversible and will continue until a spending bill is passed or we receive authority from Congress to reprogram money from investment accounts into operations and maintenance:
- Plan to cancel the majority of surface ship maintenance availabilities at private shipyards between April and September. This will affect about 30 of our 187 surface ships. We will preserve most availabilities at our public shipyards, but expect throughput to be reduced due to civilian personnel actions that are discussed below.
- Plan to cancel all aircraft depot maintenance from April to September, affecting about 250 aircraft.
- Reduce spending on base operating support and plan to cancel repair and modernization of nearly all piers, runways, buildings and other facilities through Sep 2013.
- Terminate temporary employees and implement a civilian hiring freeze - this will reduce our shipyard workforce by more than 3,000 - almost 10% of the workforce.
- Reduce overhead by cutting IT support, cancelling non mission-essential conferences, and severely limiting travel.
These steps come at a price. Much like putting off an oil change because you can't afford the $20 service; we save in the short-term, but shorten the car's life and add to the backlog of work for later. If sequestration comes on March 1, we will have an additional $4B OMN reduction for FY13. This will require more aggressive actions unless we gain authority to move investment funds into OMN. These actions include:
- Stop nearly all non-deployed operations for training and exercises, which will ultimately prevent CSGs and ARGs from deploying.
- Further reduce deployed operations in the Middle East and Pacific.
- We will retain some CSG training for late FY13 deployers (Nimitz and George H.W. Bush CSGs), but in FY14 we will likely not have trained replacements for our deployed units.
Our Fleet Commanders are studying this issue closely, and we will preserve as much maintenance and training as possible throughout FY13 and into FY14. However, once we shut down our sustainment training it will take our ships and squadrons about 9 months to conduct the maintenance and training needed to be certified to deploy again.
Jon”
Holy shit.
MasterBates
Well-Known Member
It amazes me that Congress can't pass a budget in 4 years, but can come up with all sorts of other crap in that time.. And passing a budget is one of the things they are REQUIRED to do.
I do not think that word means what you think it means...
Here's some more info:
http://navylive.dodlive.mil/2013/01...s-guidance-on-yearlong-continuing-resolution/
http://navylive.dodlive.mil/2013/01...s-guidance-on-yearlong-continuing-resolution/
I got a good one. Just winged on the 25th, but apparently my orders are on hold. I got SERE enroute to FRS, classing up in March. However, X Bureau has no money for the per diem for February, so I get to wait until I can go direct. Unfortunately, my original 15 month lease expires in February (been here since Nov '11), and the place is already leased out to replacements. Pending discussion with Personal Property, I probably can't get reimbursed for either temp lodging and storage for household goods nor moving wife and house to Jax and staying here in Corpus on my own, without orders.
Probably not all Congress's fault, but they certainly made it inconvenient. Time to get creative!
Probably not all Congress's fault, but they certainly made it inconvenient. Time to get creative!
The one thing to remember about this whole debate is that the Navy has gotten more money (in inflation adjusted dollars) ever year for the past 15. The sequestration cuts are not actually cuts. They are just not as much of a budget increase as the Navy had planned for. If we continue to spend like sequestration won't happen, we are just playing brinkmanship with congress. The Navy needs to start figuring out how to do less with less.
BTW, please tell me we aren't still spending money to buy bio jet fuel.
BTW, please tell me we aren't still spending money to buy bio jet fuel.
phrogpilot73
Well-Known Member
Work on your abs. My buddy paid his way through college as a male stripper, and is now an XO of a squadron...
It's not ALL bad, congratulation on your Gold Wings... great accomplishment.
Maybe not all Congress' fault... 90% seems fair!
Welcome jtdees to the reality of the 2013 Emporer's Nyvee!
BzB
I like the admiral's oil change comparison... reminds me of the "bow wave study" our ops-o did in 2009 to prove shutting us down for 3+ months was more expensive in the long run. It only wound up being a 6 week flying freeze, but it could have easily been worse.
Funny how since a certain someone took office, we've had flight hours cut, maintenance budgets eliminated, and oh yeah, WE DIDN'T GET PAID ON TIME... twice. Oops, did I type that? It must be the alcohol talking.
Funny how since a certain someone took office, we've had flight hours cut, maintenance budgets eliminated, and oh yeah, WE DIDN'T GET PAID ON TIME... twice. Oops, did I type that? It must be the alcohol talking.