SOS: Congress Must Save the Aircraft Carrier Fleet
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Recently, the US Navy has sent a proposal to conduct the lifting of the Congress requesting authority to temporarily reduce its current fleet from 11 to 10 aircraft carriers, from 2012 to 2015. Congress has already approved, after careful consideration, the Navy, upon request, in order to reduce the fleet from 12 to 11, which led, and the closure of the John F. Kennedy (CV-67) during the year 2007. Congress should reject the Navy’s latest request. Today, a record low end of the scale of force Carrier is already a sharp reduction in the level of the Reagan administration military establishment in the 1980’s, when the Navy had a minimum number of vehicles required for the high seas 15 Congress should strengthen its strong support from the shipbuilding industry and try again the shipbuilding account in the exercise of defence. “A quantity Quality All Its Own In 2006, the Navy and government leaders a report to Congress suggested that a fleet of 313 ships, including 11 aircraft carriers, 48 attack submarines, cruisers and 88 destroyers, 55 vessels to combat the coast, 31 vessels and an amphibious landing Maritime Prepositioning Force 12 news relay with the construction and maritime transport, the amphibious landing vessels. [1] The reconstruction of the fleet is more limited, more than 50 percent in the last 15 years, is now 280 vessels must verlegbare remains a high priority head of the navy. Unfortunately, the Navy is located in an area inaccessible because of an emergency unexpected 33 months between the decommissioning of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) in November 2012 and September 2015, the introduction of replacement Big E, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78). After a stellar 51-year career, the Enterprise reactors are spent dry in November 2012. Ironically, the Navy was deliberately train wreck coming (and has nothing to alleviate, in the course of the last decade), a leader in the Congress informed, at the dawn of the new millennium, on future developers. All, but not in the debate on the inventory of the Navy’s aircraft carriers, is the fact that, over the past ten years - and for several decades to follow - a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in a long and complex Refueling Overhaul (RCOH) at All times. A support a revision of the complexity of this practice is mandatory for all needs, quickly, or not effective verlegbare. In general, the Navy already has a back door at the aircraft carriers and 10 would tend to decline to nine if the Navy gets its way with Congress. Congress must consider whether nine aircraft carrier “thin between sectors of the global society of the responsibility of the various departments of five regional Combatant Commanders is an acceptable level of risk. The issue must recognize that the commitment of naval forces could be next a nation state or a non-State actors. Congress should consider carefully whether the Navy currently has enough support to the achievement of comprehensive service obligations. Navy If each meeting, the combatant commander of the difficulty of requirements today it is inevitable that a trade-off would have a case that is not enough Carrier at the request are available for unforeseen circumstances. The question is: how the nation can not allow a minimum fleet of 11 aircraft carriers? The risk margin is too high The United States is a maritime nation and the Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard are the primary caretakers of this world. The Navy’s core competencies are the conservation of superiority on the seas and over the high seas against the forces of the nation, including states and non-state actors. If the Navy is to continue to ensure the high seas around the globe long into the 21st century, we need a strong fleet, both in the quantity of vessels and the quality of skills and technology. Congress should be opposed to the Navy instead of denial of the application and the strength of the navy, a plan for disposal of vehicles in deficit in 2012. If it is seriously with the Congress of the United States Navy maintenance of the project’s capacity to the firepower of freedom around the world, and not by way of the Royal Navy, it should not be approved risks inherent in the company. One option for the Congress to consider is an acceleration of the delivery of the USS Gerald R. Ford by an increase in the Navy shipbuilding account for the construction of the Ford in a state of war. For example, the additional labour to be set to three layers of work per day, not to mention weekends and holidays. Congress Navy guide must be at least “feet in the fire, to ensure that the goal of a 12-carrier fleet is in 2019 (or earlier, if possible.) Based on the trends of the Navy and hard early retirement to move ships - vessels such as Cruisers Ticonderoga class and Los Angeles-class attack submarines - Congress should adopt a law on the additional requirement that all Nimitz class carriers fuel. This requirement would prejudge the official at the Office for Management and Budget of eradicating RCOHs looking to make budget savings of the imagination. Must also resist the temptation to naval shipbuilding ausschlachtend resources for other urgent priorities, if the fleet of 313 vessels is still reality. Overall, the preservation of the shipbuilding program is probably the need to continue to increase the Congress to obtain the budget of the Navy, because he faithful have made many times in recent years. There are just so powerful in the inventory Sovereign Military of 4.5 hectares in the United States territory of which is used for deterrence and threats. In addition to traditional media strike missions abroad could CVNs Its rate of the sea-based platforms for soldiers and Marines. Conclusion Congress should not “go precarious” in the Navy’s request for the waiver of Article 10 USC 5062, the existence of an aircraft carrier task force of at least 11 vessels. The future funding of the Navy’s fleet is a common need, the sense of a naval power. A robust shipbuilding budget for the next 10 to 20 years is required for a reversal of the negative trend in the number of vessels in the Navy’s inventory. A failure in this regard only encourage American opponents. The institution is another deficiency dangerous topline said that the defence budget is too low for the American military, both in the field trained and ready to support running, and modernization. Congress should commit to 4, spending as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) for National Defense, in part to the realization of the modernization of the military management of the immediate needs, including the operator’s fleet. |