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Incompetence in the Persian Gulf – The US Navy has Severe Problems

https://usdefensewatch.com/2016/07/cowardice-and-incompetence-in-the-persian-gulf-the-us-navy-has-severe-problems/ By Ray Starmann Last week, the Navy released the results of a lengthy investigation it had completed, concerning the conduct of one officer and nine enlisted sailors after they willingly surrendered their two Riverine Patrol Craft to the Iranians and were subsequently detained for 15 hours in the Persian Gulf last January. The Navy’s […]

Navy’s $12.9 Billion Carrier Falls Further Behind Schedule

by Anthony Capaccio http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-12/u-s-navy-s-12-9-billion-carrier-falls-further-behind-schedule The USS Gerald R. Ford — the Navy’s newest aircraft carrier and the costliest U.S. warship at $12.9 billion — won’t be delivered until at least November, more than two years late. “During the ongoing testing of developmental systems” on the carrier built by Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., “first-of-class issues are […]

Navy Fleets Unable To Fix $500M Ship Maintenance Shortfall On Their Own

Navy Fleets Unable To Fix $500M Ship Maintenance Shortfall On Their Own By: Megan Eckstein July 6, 2016 9:13 AM The Navy fleets have a $500-million ship maintenance budget shortfall leftover from last year that they cannot pay for on their own. Any existing budget slack is already stretched too tight – meaning that $500-million […]

July 16th Fishing Tournament – Hosted by 2016 Navy Ball Committee

  REGISTRATION IS OPEN!!!! Register now for the 2016 Tampa Bay Navy Ball Fishing FUNdraiser to be held 16 July 2016 from 0600-1600 (6AM-4PM) at Picnic Island Park, Tampa, FL. In order to register, please send the following information via email to: USNavyBallFishingTournament@gmail.com Name: Team Name (if applicable): Boat or Wading:     Tournament Details: […]

Latest Warship Encounter Brings Russian Protest

https://www.defensenews.com/story/defense-news/2016/06/28/russia-navy-destroyer-frigate-gravely-yaroslav-mudry-neustrashimy-mediterranean-truman-carrier-collision-encounter/86481616/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Defense%20EBB%2006-29-16&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief Christopher P. Cavas, Defense News6:49 p.m. EDT June 28, 2016 WASHINGTON — The latest Russian-US kerfuffle at sea appears to feature a US warship making a close-in, high-speed pass on a Russian ship — but there may be more to the story than what a one-minute and two-second video shows. The incident took place June 17 […]

The Marines will remove the word ‘man’ from these 19 job titles

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/2016/06/27/marines-remove-word-man-these-19-job-titles/86438594/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Defense+EBB+6-28-16&utm_term=Editorial+-+Early+Bird+Brief Gina Harkins, Marine Corps Times6:55 p.m. EDT June 27, 2016 Thousands of Marines serving throughout the infantry and in other key positions are about to get new gender-neutral job titles, but the service’s top leaders are pushing to leave the word “man” in some of its most iconic occupations. In all, the Marine Corps […]

New US Navy Aircraft Carrier Will Launch Fighters Using Electromagnetic Force

http://www.scout.com/military/warrior/story/1679236-electromagnetic-carrier-catapult-f-18 By Kris Osborn, Scout.com, 16 Jun 16 Next year, the Navy plans to use electromagnetic force to launch an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet up into the sky off of the deck of its emerging next-generation aircraft carrier next year – the USS Gerald R. Ford. An operational launch of the Navy’s Electro-Magnetic Aircraft […]

Navy’s “Klingon Bird of Prey” Passes Key Tests: LCS Trimaram

by SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR.on June 15, 2016 at 4:24 PM The strangest-looking ship in the Navy is conducting two crucial tests. A broad, triple-hulled “trimaran” design likened to a villain’s vessel from Star Trek, theIndependence-class Littoral Combat Ship completed its Initial Operational Test & Evaluation on June 3rd. What’s more, the Navy Sea Systems Command […]

After Three-Carrier Swap, USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN-75) Preps for the Yards

By Meghann Myers, Navy Times, 8 Jun 16 ABOARD THE CARRIER GEORGE WASHINGTON, OFF THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST – A year ago, the carrier Theodore Roosevelt took off for a nine-month deployment to the Middle East. Now, 1,700 members of its crew are back in Norfolk aboard this flattop, which came back from seven years […]

Analysis: It’s Time for a Reexamination of Nuclear Weapons Requirements

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=2215 The $350 billion price tag for modernizing the United States’ nuclear arsenal has been a topic of endless debate in Washington. The funds would be spent over the coming decade to bring the nation’s nuclear triad up to date — the bombers, the submarines, the ground-based intercontinental ballistic missiles and the warheads. Little to […]

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