The Navy has released ‘part’ of it’s plan to deal with cuts…
From Military.com HERE.
Navy flag officers and top executives were told Thursday to begin cutting expenses — laying off thousands of temporary civilian workers, reducing base operations and preparing to cancel maintenance work on more than two dozen ships and hundreds of aircraft.
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— Cancel maintenance for about 30 Navy ships and 250 aircraft between April and September.
— Terminations of temporary civilian employees and a civilian hiring freeze. This will reduce the shipyards’ workforce by more than 3,000 people.
— Reductions in base spending and plans to cancel most repairs and upgrades of piers, runways, buildings and other facilities.
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The cutbacks are in response to Congress’ approving a continuing resolution to keep the government operating at 2012 budget levels until March 27.
The smaller budget and other “unplanned growth” leave the Navy with $4.6 billion less than it needs for 2013.
From Military.com HERE.
Navy flag officers and top executives were told Thursday to begin cutting expenses — laying off thousands of temporary civilian workers, reducing base operations and preparing to cancel maintenance work on more than two dozen ships and hundreds of aircraft.
/snip/
— Cancel maintenance for about 30 Navy ships and 250 aircraft between April and September.
— Terminations of temporary civilian employees and a civilian hiring freeze. This will reduce the shipyards’ workforce by more than 3,000 people.
— Reductions in base spending and plans to cancel most repairs and upgrades of piers, runways, buildings and other facilities.
/snip/
The cutbacks are in response to Congress’ approving a continuing resolution to keep the government operating at 2012 budget levels until March 27.
The smaller budget and other “unplanned growth” leave the Navy with $4.6 billion less than it needs for 2013.
What is NOT being said, and Ashton Carter came out this afternoon with another hit, and that is planning for one day a week furloughs for civilian workers through the end of the FY, which is September…
And I’m betting we’re going to see entire Carrier Strike Groups and entire squadrons of airplanes tied up to the pier/parked on the ramp in what is called cold iron status… Readiness, pretty much out the window, ability to react to a global crisis, out the window… Don’t know how the Army/Air Force will handle it, but it’s sure as hell NOT going to be pretty…
h/t Craig, Frito, Avon and others
And from Gerald, a link HERE to Michael Yon’s post on the Air Force response…
And from WSF, a link HERE to the Army response… sigh… We’re F**ked…
Does Pearl Harbor or The Twin Towers not mean anything to the Democrats? We are looking at some hard times ahead and more high death tolls that they can blame on Bush.
And when the attack comes they will still use the BOB excuse.
So they’re finally realizing their dream of dismantling the eeeeevil American military.
Imbeciles.
Hope nobody notices.
Beyond pissed.
Cp- Nope!
PH- Probably
Rev- That they are!
Ed- PLENTY of bad guys are…
WSF- Me too.
Will there be a corresponding reduction in Flag Officers?
And I giggled after writing that.
We could turn all of the aircraft carriers into museums and charge admission.
I think that I’d like to buy a deactivated Minuteman Silo and command bunker. I could turn it into a kick-ass man cave that would isolate me completely from the zombie apocalypse.
(then again, I’m a ‘glass half full’ sort of guy)
And away we go. This is going to get mighty ugly before it’s all done. Throw in the culling of combat experienced commanders. We better pray for world peace.
Jon- Actually YES!
LL- So happens there is at least ONE of those for sale… slightly used…
Six- Yep… dammit.
and all the while, China is building thier Navy, and Russia is parking subs off our coast.
It is going to bite us in the ass.
But yet, I will say it again, we are able to pull 500 million out of our asses for a gun control campaign.
Has this administration done ANYTHING that a ComIntern Cell wouldn’t?
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong. – President Ronald W. Reagan
I wonder what’s going to happen when all those birds go SPINTAC, or the crews can’t maintain minimum proficiency. I know VFA and VMFA pilots can’t fly ACM unless they’ve flown it in the last 4 days.
Are they going to pay salvage costs to remove the coffee grounds under the fleet so they can leave their berths? What about the fouled fuel and caked up boilers?
Only nuns and my mom when she was angry ever called me Gerald.
Gerry
It is going to make Graham/Rudman/Hollings Act look like chicken crap with no pretense of balancing the budget.
Hey, you know that the only Military that the United States needs is Unmanned Drones and a couple of SEAL Teams! After all, most of the rest of the World won’t attack us because they LOVE Obama!
At least that’s what Barry is thinking…..
JUGM- Yep, right on all counts… sigh
Stretch- Not that I’m aware of…
Don- It will be just like we experienced under Carter, killing people in training, millions/billions to ‘fix’ equipment and 6 months to even restart a real combat capability…
Gerry- Sorry… 🙂
ADM- You could very well be right!