GAO: Delayed ship maintenance threatens Navy's ability to meet operational demands
Source: The Virginia Pilot
After years of long and repeated deployments to the Middle East, the Navys fleet of warships is behind on maintenance, possibly threatening the services ability to meet future missions overseas.
Thats according to a report released Monday by the Government Accountability Office, which found that the Navy bypassed some ship maintenance over the past 15 years to keep pace with the demands of multiple wars.
Thats led to a backlog in work needed to keep the fleet going.
These decisions have reduced the predictability of ship deployments for sailors and for the ship repair industrial base, the report said. They have also resulted in declining ship conditions across the fleet and have increased the amount of time that ships require to complete maintenance in the shipyards.
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thanks bush and cheney
Turbineguy
(37,427 posts)It costs at least 3 times as much to catch up plus loss of service.
cloudbase
(5,532 posts)Then they have to take it somewhere else to get the work done properly.
Avondale is a close second to Bender.
I wouldn't let either of them work on a bicycle.
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)jdadd
(1,314 posts)I worked over 30 years in manufacturing, Maintenance.....Trying to perform maintenance of machinery was like trying to change a tire on a moving car....Management just wouldn't let us shut down long enough, to get it done. I'd just wait for stuff to break, and perform rebuilds..That's the only time anything got serviced....
houston16revival
(953 posts)if we'd do repair, refurb, maintenance
on ships, highways, bridges, houses, neighborhoods, buildings
instead we let it deteriorate and then build new
In many cases I suspect it's neither financially nor resource efficient
hack89
(39,171 posts)he is the CinC after all.
jpak
(41,761 posts)Iraq
Afghanistan
Great Recession
The aftermath of the Iraq war and Bush's abandonment of Afghanistan could not be ignored.
yup
hack89
(39,171 posts)he is the one that sets the priorities for the military, is he not?
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)Directly, NAVSEA is responsible for ship maintenance policy and scheduling with the shipyards to get maintenance done.
BUT the combatant commanders request forces in their areas, and the Chief of Naval Operations has to decide whether ships return to port as scheduled or extend deployments. The Truman just got its deployment extended by ay least a month. That then has ripple effects on maintenance scheduling, not to mention the sailors and their families. I'm sure they wish that ISIL would be done for so that these extensions would stop occurring, but that's wishful thinking IMO.
hack89
(39,171 posts)I spent 20 years as a SWO. My post was directed more at the knee jerk reaction to blame Bush and Cheney.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)meets with my approval.
You've killed enough brown people.
On edit:
Here's a partial list of American military "interventions" since 1950. Of these 36 countries, only 3 (Bosnia, Macedonia and Georgia) are predominantly Caucasian. The other 33 (92% of the countries, accounting for an even higher proportion of the casualties) were Asian, African or Central and South American.
Afghanistan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cambodia
Cameroon
Chad
Colombia
Côte d'Ivoire
Djibouti
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Georgia
Grenada
Haiti
Honduras
Iran
Kenya
Korea
Kuwait
Laos
Lebanon
Liberia
Libya
Macedonia
Nigeria
Pakistan
Panama
Peru
Syria
Thailand
Uganda
Vietnam
Yemen
Zaïre
It's a sorry, racist record.