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Navy Could Sideline 17 Support Ships Due to Manpower Issues - USNI News
Military Sealift Command has drafted a plan to remove the crews from 17 Navy support ships due to a lack of qualified mariners to operate the vessels across the Navy, USNI News learned. The MSC “force generation reset” identified two Lewis and Clark replenishment ships, one fleet oiler, a dozen...
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And just when things are getting spicy enough to get into a shooting war.
The MSC is what makes our Navy the envy of the world, because those ships provide underway replenishment. Without that, we can't operate everywhere we need to.
A lot of these ships or types of ships used to be fully commissioned with full naval crews and often had permanently installed weapons systems also manned by USN sailors. Then they went to mostly civilians, and now this.