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Offline rangerrebew

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The Navy has struggled to construct ships. Now it may cut the admirals who help build them.
« on: July 18, 2025, 07:21:05 am »
The Navy has struggled to construct ships. Now it may cut the admirals who help build them.
Paul McLeary and Jack Detsch
Wed, July 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM EDT


The Navy is considering eliminating up to five high-level admiral positions key to the construction of ships and fighter planes, even as President Donald Trump has vowed to pull the Navy out of its shipbuilding crisis.

The evolving plan is part of a larger Pentagon effort to reduce the number of admirals and generals in the ranks, according to a defense official and a person familiar with the matter, as the Trump administration takes aim at what it sees as a top-heavy military that has lost its focus.

It would gut the three-star positions atop the five major commands — Naval Sea, Naval Air, Naval Information Warfare, Naval Facilities Engineering and Naval Supply — leaving them short of top-level military officials. The potential changes at the organizations, known as the Navy’s system commands, would also greatly reduce their staff and eliminate jobs. This would remove experts intimately involved in designing, developing and acquiring new ships and submarines at a time when all of the service’s shipbuilding programs are facing significant delays.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/navy-struggled-construct-ships-now-201053016.html
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Re: The Navy has struggled to construct ships. Now it may cut the admirals who help build them.
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2025, 10:33:10 am »
If they aren't getting the job done, then perhaps someone else should be doing it.

Delays on the ways now, mean delays in laying the next keel.
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Re: The Navy has struggled to construct ships. Now it may cut the admirals who help build them.
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2025, 11:09:04 am »
It would be a shame to fire the people that wasted time, money, and opportunity to build those Little Crappy Ships.

America's post-World-War-II defense industrial, manufacturing, and logistics competitive advantages have been sqaundered by asinine defense and trade policies after the First Gulf War.

The Globalist Free Trade utopia had been co-opted by America's enemies to evicerate us economically and militarily.
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Re: The Navy has struggled to construct ships. Now it may cut the admirals who help build them.
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2025, 05:11:12 pm »
Build the ships.
Scuttle the admirals.
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