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Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?
- Thread starter Randy Daytona
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I’ve seen the work those guys have to do ton plan out day by day the maintenance for each ship and dock and berth and trying to ensure there are no gaps and ships get the maintenance they need while balancing out the force requirements… and then they have to redo all of their work once a ship gets extended. It’s a miserable house of cards - always felt bad for those guys.
Navy's Top Admiral Previously Said He Would "Push Back" Against Extending USS Gerald R. Ford's Deployment
The admiral said keeping the carrier, which was just sent to the Middle East, at sea could result in big maintenance repercussions and crew strain.
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8 months next week. Especially shitty when you consider that they've been sitting in the Caribbean and were so close to being home in just a few weeks.
Now they have to transit around the world with probably no RTHP date in sight.
Having just gotten home from there a few weeks ago, I really feel for all those folks. They deserve better from our leadership.
This is one of those times where I wish I still had access to the SDOB, if for no other reason than to see how CNO articulates the risk.
I always saw it articulated as something like “risk to force” or “risk to mission”, but during my DH deployment extensions, I became convinced that it doesn’t really matter.
I've definitely seen instances where a service chief's input drove SECDEF's COA choices. Sometimes it's a matter of degree, IE extend a CSG for 14 days instead of 90.
Was it only 14 days, or was it 14 days, then 10 days, then indefinitely?
The latter was my experience.
It's a hypothetical example.
Considering service chief input and risk assessment suggests there's a coherent policy process at work.
Ah yeah, old news. Like @Brett327 said - definitely in the past. Is what it is.Navy's Top Admiral Previously Said He Would "Push Back" Against Extending USS Gerald R. Ford's Deployment
The admiral said keeping the carrier, which was just sent to the Middle East, at sea could result in big maintenance repercussions and crew strain.
You'd be disappointed in it these days. (I don't think the CNO's fault, it's the way the SDOBs currently are being put out.)
I can see a lot of downside to CNO making these kinds of statements. Even if he doesn't get grief from the administration, it just demonstrates that he isn't being listened to. Best to do that advocacy away from the public eye, IMO.