My passing thought on bases and missile ranges is that the world gets smaller and smaller until the pacific is like a moat and everyone just counts the seagulls gliding by. Active defenses is the answer but those are expensive even for fixed emplacements.
Would welcome a deeper dive into USS Boxer incident with her Engineering Dept, and the larger issue of competence of the chiefs mess. While maintenance issues and shipyard backlogs have been ongoing, basic ship maintenance and job expertise amongst the uniformed ranks seems to be contributing factors to the overall repair woes.
I don't have any personal experience here, but comments I have heard is that if a modern chief is technically competent it is by coincidence. The critical elements are said to be how much time he/she has spent raising money for the mess or charity drives. But that might just be junior sailors bitching.
There's issues with how Big Navy allocates and handles maintenance, there's issues with how knowledgeable our sailers are to operate the system's they're responsible for, there's issues with how officers are held accountable and their level of investment to the operation and welfare of their ships and then there's this gem:
"Much of the fault for the issue was levied at inexperienced contractors and the Navy's Sea Systems Command, which oversaw ship repairs and had reduced checkpoints "for the sake of production schedules and overhaul costs across the waterfront"
When the future fleet commission was sixed, one wonders whether the commission would have come back with some answers that were likely to be institutionally unpalatable?
Trying to log into Blog Talk and keeps telling me my account is disabled. Has Canada fallen that far that you are blocking us from participating? LOL!
Trudeau may be blocking you. ;-)
Try the spreaker link or the spotify widget in the update.
Ack!
My passing thought on bases and missile ranges is that the world gets smaller and smaller until the pacific is like a moat and everyone just counts the seagulls gliding by. Active defenses is the answer but those are expensive even for fixed emplacements.
Would welcome a deeper dive into USS Boxer incident with her Engineering Dept, and the larger issue of competence of the chiefs mess. While maintenance issues and shipyard backlogs have been ongoing, basic ship maintenance and job expertise amongst the uniformed ranks seems to be contributing factors to the overall repair woes.
I don't have any personal experience here, but comments I have heard is that if a modern chief is technically competent it is by coincidence. The critical elements are said to be how much time he/she has spent raising money for the mess or charity drives. But that might just be junior sailors bitching.
There's issues with how Big Navy allocates and handles maintenance, there's issues with how knowledgeable our sailers are to operate the system's they're responsible for, there's issues with how officers are held accountable and their level of investment to the operation and welfare of their ships and then there's this gem:
"Much of the fault for the issue was levied at inexperienced contractors and the Navy's Sea Systems Command, which oversaw ship repairs and had reduced checkpoints "for the sake of production schedules and overhaul costs across the waterfront"
NAVSEA is recommending and doing shoddy work!
When the future fleet commission was sixed, one wonders whether the commission would have come back with some answers that were likely to be institutionally unpalatable?