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originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: QuixoticNinja
In the name of baal we thank the USA for their endless stream of souls. Their sacrifice will not be remebered...
Compounding the problem is the fact that the Big Horn is the only oiler the Navy has in the Middle East. One shipowner told gCaptain that the Navy is scrambling to find a commercial oil tanker to take its place and deliver jet fuel to the USS Abraham Lincoln.
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: watchitburn
Logistics has been what made our dominance.
I’m wondering if that’s a speed bump, or something that will be hugely consequential. I’m leaning towards the former though.
The Navy’s manning shortages are curbing the service’s ability to repair its ships while at sea, according to a watchdog report released Monday.
Sixty-three percent of executive officers — a ship’s second-in-command — surveyed reported that insufficient manning made it “moderately to extremely difficult to complete repairs while underway,” according to a Government Accountability Office report released Monday.
At-sea basic maintenance and repairs are critical to ensuring a ship can carry out its mission, according to the GAO.
But Monday’s report, based on interviews of sailors and leaders across the fleet, reveals that basic maintenance duties and repairs are hindered not only by manning shortages, but also by inaccurate Navy guidelines and substandard training.
As of late last year, the Navy was lacking nearly 14,000 enlisted sailors to keep its aircraft carriers, surface ships and attack submarines properly manned, according to the GAO.