{"id":1926417,"date":"2023-05-08T02:58:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T06:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marine-corps-frustrated-by-navys-shortfalls-on-ship-readiness\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T03:02:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T07:02:37","slug":"marine-corps-frustrated-by-navys-shortfalls-on-ship-readiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marine-corps-frustrated-by-navys-shortfalls-on-ship-readiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Corps upset with Navy&#8217;s ship readiness shortcomings."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmarine-corps-frustrated-by-navys-shortfalls-on-ship-readiness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1926417&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Navy&#8217;s Struggle to Keep Ships Running<\/h2>\n<p>The Navy&#8217;s ability to maintain and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-navy-says-fight-with-china-is-likely-in-the-2020s\/\" title=\"U.S. Navy Says Fight With China Is Likely in the 2020s\">operate ships<\/a> has been declining for over a decade, resulting in a less<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/un-report-admitted-in-april-taliban-and-al-qaeda-remain-closely-aligned-and-show-no-indication-of-breaking-ties\/\" title=\"UN Report Admitted In April: Taliban And Al-Qaeda \u2018Remain Closely Aligned And Show No Indication Of Breaking Ties\u2019\">-ready force<\/a> when it comes to defending against China, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office. The Marine Corps, which relies on Navy ships for transportation and positioning, has also been affected by the Navy&#8217;s inability to keep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kurt-schlichter-the-pentagons-latest-leadership-failure\/\" title=\"Kurt Schlichter: The Pentagon\u2019s Latest Leadership Failure\">ships running<\/a>. The report found that while the Army and Marines have managed to maintain or increase troop readiness, the Navy&#8217;s sea forces have been on the decline.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenges Facing the Navy<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Increasing maintenance delays<\/li>\n<li>More platforms being raided for spare parts<\/li>\n<li>More ships reporting serious breakdowns and failures<\/li>\n<li>Ship repair and upkeep delays grew from an average of five days in 2011 to 19 in 2021<\/li>\n<li>A decrease in steaming hours<\/li>\n<li>A shortage of spare parts for ships<\/li>\n<li>An increase in cannibalizations per ship every year from 2015 to 2021<\/li>\n<li>More ships reporting serious parts failures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Wasp-class amphibious assault ships have been one of the biggest problems for the Navy, with an increase of about 43 such failures from fiscal year 2011 to fiscal year 2021. These ships are crucial for transporting Marines to mission areas, and the Navy&#8217;s failure to keep them running has frustrated Marine Corps officials.<\/p>\n<p>Commandant Gen. David Berger has expressed serious concerns over the lack of available Navy ships to position units in nearby waters, which has prevented Marines from helping in major crises. The Navy&#8217;s plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marine-corps-frustrated-by-navys-shortfalls-on-ship-readiness\/\" title=\"Marine Corps upset with Navy's ship readiness shortcomings.\">retire older dock landing ships<\/a> and pause orders of replacement San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships has also caused tension in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The path forward for the Navy is challenging, as addressing ship and submarine maintenance delays, backlogs, and other sustainment challenges will be difficult given the poor condition of infrastructure at the Navy&#8217;s four public shipyards. Although the Navy has begun a 20-year, $21 billion effort to revitalize its shipyards, the report notes that there have already been $1.6 billion in cost overruns and a slipping of deadlines by three years.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy needs sustained management attention over 20 years to implement the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan, which will involve funding well above the levels allocated in recent years for shipyard infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy&#8217;s troubles with keeping ships maintained and at sea have only worsened in the last several years, resulting in a less-ready force when the service is looked to as the first line of defense against China, the Government Accountability Office reported this week. The service&#8217;s inability to keep ships running is also having serious<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1926418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[25066,8131,7801,8414,20562,5787,14968],"class_list":["post-1926417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-shortcomings","tag-corps","tag-marine","tag-navys","tag-readiness","tag-ship","tag-upset"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}