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Marines, Navy Crafting Long-Term Fixes for Amphibious Warship Shortages
MALLORY SHELBOURNE
MAY 3, 2024 10:45 AM

The sun rises over the USS Wasp (LHD-1) while underway in the Atlantic Ocean, April 12, 2024. US Marine Corps
WASHINGTON, D.C. – While the long-term future for the amphibious fleet is secured with a Navy commitment to 31 amphibious warships in the Fiscal Year 2025 budget, the short-term problem of getting Marines to sea is less settled.

Maintenance issues with the Navy’s aging Wasp-class big-deck amphibious warships and Whidbey Island-class dock landing ships have abbreviated Marine Expeditionary Unit deployments, forcing the Navy and Marine Corps to cobble together less-than-ideal solutions to get MEUs to sea, officials from both services said this week.

To that end, the Navy and Marine Corps are nearing an agreement that would uniformly define amphibious ship readiness requirements, as the services face maintenance challenges that have led to delayed deployments.

The CNO and Commandant agree that the services must work toward a goal of 80 percent readiness for the fleet of 31 L-class ships, which should include 21 amphibious transport docks and 10 big-deck amphibious assault ships, Smith said Thursday at the annual Modern Day Marine symposium in Washington, D.C.

https://news.usni.org/2024/05/03/marines-navy-crafting-long-term-fixes-for-amphibious-warship-shortages

The US military may have a new leg up on China in the Pacific
Autonomous cargo delivery system could offer rapid resupply for US military overseas as tensions escalate in the Pacific
Matt Leach By Matt Leach , Megan Myers Fox News
Published May 4, 2024 5:30am EDT
 

Elroy Air CEO says his new plane could give U.S. edge in the Pacific
Dave Merrill, CEO and co-founder of Elroy Air, told Fox News Digital about an autonomous cargo delivery system that would give the U.S. military a leg up against China.

The Department of Defense could use an advanced drone delivery service to give the military an advantage against China as tensions escalate overseas, a California aerospace technology head told Fox News Digital.

"Rising competition and the potential for conflict with the People's Republic of China, should they invade Taiwan, creates this urgency to make sure that if the U.S. needs to go and operate more actively in the Pacific, we're ready to do that," Elroy Air CEO and co-founder Dave Merrill said.

Elroy Air demonstrated its autonomous cargo delivery service at Travis Air Force Base last year, boasting a system "broadening the realm of the possible for military logistics," the company announced in an October press release. The aircraft, known as the Chaparral, aims to safely and efficiently deliver essential supplies for global military operations, which the Pentagon has expressed interest in using for potential conflicts in the Pacific, Merrill told Fox News Digital.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/us-military-leg-china-pacific

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Trump once pretended to fire me: testimony
By Kyle Schnitzer

Former Trump Organization controller Jeff McConney testified Monday morning that Donald Trump once told him he was fired — only he wasn’t.

Describing the moment that sounds like it could've come straight from "The Apprentice," McConney said that once when he walked into Trump’s office, Trump, who was on the phone, jokingly told him that he was fired because his cash balances went down the week before.

“Jeff, you’re fired,” McConney testified, adding that Trump, when he got off the phone, told him: “You’re not fired but my cash balances went down from last week.”

Trump then told McConney to “negotiated my bills,” according to the witnesses.

McConney said it was a “teaching moment” for him.