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

[hscs]

And everyone is missing a major piece - we can’t even fill the billets on our current MSC ships, so why are we talking about a once a quarter at best niche capability?

 

[sevenhelmet]

And everyone is missing a major piece - we can’t even fill the billets on our current MSC ships, so why are we talking about a once a quarter at best?

Solid point. Our sealift capacity is seriously hurting, thanks to decades of institutional neglect when it comes to the Merchant Marine.

 

[GroundPounder]

I cannot take credit for that, but it is a nice image.

Potentially worthy of veneration, those majic rocks.

 

[ChuckMK23]

And everyone is missing a major piece - we can’t even fill the billets on our current MSC ships, so why are we talking about a once a quarter at best niche capability?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/business/merchant-marines-shipbuilding.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0k8.eAVO.XTSIKKM5fzUT&smid=nytcore-android-share

 

[Brett327]

Unclear just what the correlation is between American shipbuilding capacity and the demand for civilian mariners. That's a weird headline that belies a poor understanding of the subject matter.

 

[taxi1]

They’d have better success selling the rum and sodomy aspect.

 

[sevenhelmet]

They’d have better success selling the rum and sodomy aspect.

US flag ships are generally dry, so there's no rum, at least not officially. As to the other, I can't claim any personal expertise there- best of luck.