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Title: Pentagon watchdog raises concerns over Navy warship readiness
Post by: rangerrebew on February 05, 2020, 12:47:18 pm

Pentagon watchdog raises concerns over Navy warship readiness
Geoff Ziezulewicz


Navy leaders up and down the chain of command identified “training deficiencies” during the maintenance and deployment cycles for multiple guided-missile destroyers “but did not address the identified deficiencies,” according to a Pentagon watchdog report on fleet readiness released Tuesday.

While the Defense Department Inspector General report is the latest to raise concerns about readiness in the surface fleet, Navy leaders say most of the shortcomings identified in the audit have been rectified.

IG’s assessment looked at the multi-phase, 36-month, optimized fleet response plan, or OFRP, and other records for a dozen destroyers from 2013 to 2018.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/02/04/pentagon-watchdog-raises-concerns-over-navy-warship-readiness/ (https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/02/04/pentagon-watchdog-raises-concerns-over-navy-warship-readiness/)