Posted: January 19, 2018 5:30 PM
SECNAV, CNO: Surface Navy Corrections ‘Already Having a Positive Impact’
By RICHARD R. BURGESS, Managing Editor
WASHINGTON — The Navy’s top officials told Congress that the service is implementing reforms for the surface fleet to reverse a trend toward “normalization of deviation,†while appealing to Congress for stable and adequate funding to reduce the stress on the fleet in meeting its training requirements and operational commitments.
Speaking Jan. 18 on Capitol Hill during a joint hearing of the House Armed Services readiness and seapower and projection forces subcommittees, Navy Secretary (SECNAV) Richard V. Spencer and Adm. John M. Richardson, chief of naval operations (CNO), assured the panels that the Strategic Readiness Review and Comprehensive Reviews — ordered in the wake of three collisions and a grounding in the U.S. Seventh Fleet last year — are providing solutions that already are being enacted in the fleet and are already having a positive impact.
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