Actually, by law not less than 11.old salt wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2023 5:33 pmThe US is required by law to have 12 aircraft carriers. Our multi-year strategic plans are based on that level.a fan wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2023 5:17 pm You deny a hollowed out military, thanks to sequester budget caps, then rant when over-tasked, underfunded, undertrained ships run into other ships.
I laugh at you jumping to the conclusion that the "reason" boats started running into each other is the sequester, and not simple mismanagement. Has the Pentagon EVER passed an audit, OS? But sure, the sequester is what did it, no question. Not mismangemen of the assets we have, but literally can't account for like every other organization on Earth does.
Several years of 12 carrier carrier battle group tasking, with only 11 (or 10) carriers in commission, & insufficient escorts for even that number, thanks to new construction delays required by sequester caps, finally took their toll in accidents, after too much time at sea on tasking with insufficient available at sea time for training. Further exacerbated by adding a ballistic missile defense requirement which required dedicated destroyer deployments to the E Med & homeporting 4 (now 6} destroyers to Spain.
Rode hard & put away wet. Chain reaction to sequester budget cap underfunding + overtasking.
Our Navy ships still spend so much more time at sea & away from homeport than ships of any other Navy.
No longer hollowed out, but still weary.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/8062
Correct?
And there are less expensive ways to achieve this...https://midwesterncitizen.com/2021/12/t ... t-century/