Navy Could Sideline 17 Support Ships Due to Manpower Issues

[1srelluc]

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.

 

[JGalt]

We don't need a Navy anymore, or a military for that matter.

President Harris will soothe our enemies with sweet talk and BJ's.

 

[rampart]

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...

news.usni.org

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.

msc uses many contract crews. dynecorps crewed our ships when we worked with msc.

sailors and captains are available in most ports for the right money or the proper destination.

 

[DGS49]

The Armed Forces recruitment issues would be solved quickly and emphatically if Trump were to be re-elected in November.

 

[Manonthestreet]

May as well park em, we can't do routine maintenance on the Fleet. The better to lose gracefully.