..."As part of that budget plan, committee members approved plans to conduct nuclear refueling for the USS George Washington (CVN-73), and voted to extend the carrier’s service life over the next two decades. The move essentially nixes Navy-led efforts to shrink the service’s carrier fleet from 11 ships down to 10."...
Interesting from a budgetary perspective; IMHO this is like overhauling a pickup with 300K miles on the odometer because you have the money for that right now only to discover three months later that you don't have enough money to buy gas or pay for the insurance.
But why are we worrying about a reduction in force? What's the impact to readiness from the loss of one measly carrier group? It's not like the Chinese and the Russians have developed Blue Water navies that have a global reach. There's nothing going in the South China Sea that's causing any kind of tension in that region. Nothing to see in the Black Sea or the Med either. Oh, wait...
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
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