Hmmm… if it’s 50%, asign all UAV squadrons to Lemoore and control them out of San Diego. There, I just solved the Navy’s manning problems. What do I win?
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That's what the Trition program is doing - controlling out of NAS Jax, deployed (currently) in Guam and very soon Sigonella.Hmmm… if it’s 50%, asign all UAV squadrons to Lemoore and control them out of San Diego. There, I just solved the Navy’s manning problems. What do I win?
Yet you still cited having a 600 ship Navy as some sort of strategic peg for success? Numerous threads on structural and regulatory issues facing shipbuilding capacity and solutions, so I won’t beat that dead horse. Go read them.
Your original post purported that the metric above and interest payments exceeding the defense budget were critical issues facing the country. If that is still true, based on my previous post - You should probably be worried more about human capital.
The deficit is simple math. Reduce spending, increase taxes, or a combination of both. Caveat that it needs to be balanced at a rate proportional to the projected growth rate of the economy. Yes, our spending levels relative to GDP change as the economy grows, and also take into account inflation.
As mentioned, CBO predicts the DOD budget to flatline and decrease over the next 10 years. If you read the CBO chart I posted, you’d notice the biggest growth in spending has been with mandatory spending programs. I.e. Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Any particular reason why? Boomers are retiring and no longer paying into the tax system, and now incurring costs on those programs (Increased spending). The biggest solution to this deficit problem that is often over looked is maximizing labor participation rate and employment. Enhancing trade, vocational, and technical schools in our younger generation and not denigrating the value of a college education (which seems to be in vogue now). Immigration isn’t always a bad thing despite the recent partisan political commentary (because you know those heathens pay taxes, too). More people working = more people paying taxes, and in combination with adjustments to mandatory spending reform - it should do the trick.
Agreed with all. Easily the worst accommodations relative to the size of the base of anywhere I’ve been in the DoD. Is it so much to ask for a proper ops side gym? That’s an example (and there are others) of a very fixable problem.
I'm not sure who the Marine general was that snookered the Navy into abandoning Miramar in the 90's, but I thank him.
Glad I was never stationed at MCAS El Centro.
Jokes aside, it seems like the DoD/Congress as a whole needs to step up its game on base infrastructure. Never been to Lemoore, but from the comments it sounds bleak.
A year in Lemoore
So, your assertion that fixing the human capital problem should be our #1 focus as a nation right now and will make substantive contributions to labor force numbers, taxes, debt & deficits? Are you satisfied that the manner in which we are conducting immigration policy in this country is appropriate and necessary?
Why are you so angry at Boomers?
Now…El Toro was quite a nice place.
29 is actually a decent counterexample. It’s obviously a hellscape but there’s ample on base food options and world class gym facilities. Good example of what a little investment can do to make a place a lot more livable
I've heard good things about El Toro and Tustin.
Never been, but I'm sure they're better than New River. Just waiting for an advertisement from a TV lawyer to collect on a class-action settlement due to the water supply.😆
Cry me a New River…2nd Recon, Lejeune, Onslow Beach…never knew I could hate sand so much.
I've only been there on pre-employment workups, like most. Great training environment, especially when alcohol was allowed in the huts...
I do remember stories of dudes with families planning their PCS drives onto base at night...bc that's a long drive into nothing, and didn't want their wife to cry.
It's just like any change though. Some dudes get into the desert lifestyle.
It's still SoCal baby!
I was and am a China Lake fan. Make it through a year, and the desert gets into the blood.
This is probably a dumb question because I know literally nothing about UAV… do they need someone in the local area to control the UAV for more “dynamic” parts of flight like takeoff/landing/maneuvering due to latency from being half way across the world? Or can it truly be done 100% remote?