Monday, August 21, 2017

Fitzgarald: My USNI Comments Concerning The State of the Navy

Fitzgerald: When A Big Ocean Gets Small

·        "Right, we are spinning up our military. We are squeezing North Korea. The last time we did this was Japan just prior to WWII. We could have many tens of thousands Soul South Koreans dead in a week. You need to consider the pressure the captain and Navy is in. We are really in a gigantic national emergency and our nation should be placed on a war footing. The world could drastically change right under our feet in a blink of eye. They are trying to knock us off the world stage. We have left peace time operations. We should hang a US flag on every house and car in the USA as support for our country and military. I recently did for the first time in my life. We are heading for a "National Commission on Military Readiness" during/post war!!!"

·        "Right, the USS Cowpens CG 63. This giant missile cruiser rust bucket is showing the flag in Australia. The senior Navy brass was utterly disconnected to their troubles just a few years ago. What brought me to this ship today, was the picture of the ship in Navy Times today. The amount of rust I saw on the hull led me to research conditions of the crew. The senior officers and enlisted were terrified to report what was going on to the shore bass just a few years go. The terrible material conditions of the ship. How can this level of dysfunction not be going on all over the fleet today? I know this is never going to get published? I just hope my message gets to the people who matter."

·        "One more. Why didn't the Fort Worth investigation include the question of the "extent of cause and condition". An ethical investigation of the Forth Worth based on the security of the USA would have posed this difficult question (siloing information). Did the "Fat Lenard" scandal impair the maintenance and upkeep of the pacific fleet in anyway. I would think that is a serous continued headwind today and the future?"

·        "Check out the pictures of the Fitzpatrick. The Fitz is a rust bucket before the accident. Why wasn't her paint job perfect. She represent the great USA all over the world.The Fort Worth combining gear report might give us a clue with what occurred. The crew demoralized, maintenance issues all around...an indifferent senior staff ashore. The crew was severely impaired. Priorities and resource limitations of any kind are always, always, always immoral.These burdens always on the weak and poor disproportionally. I think the Fitzgerald had severe maintenance issues and many on board components degraded or broken. Too heavy a ops tempo for resources we send them. Not enough Navy ships for the condition of the world. God help us all and our children we send to the fleet, if a prolonged and worldwide war breaks out with our exhausted and broke current fleet? The war clouds are building all around us. Mike Mulligan, Hinsdale, NH USS Lipscomb SSN 685."
"Crew demoralized;" "indifferent senior staff ashore"; "I think the Fitzgerald had severe maintenance issues and many on board components degraded or broken;" "Our exhausted and broke current fleet;" "Severe maintenance issues, many on board components degraded or broken."
Harsh statements indeed, Steamshovel. How do U know the crew was demoralized? How do U know senior staff was indifferent? How do U know their are severe maintenance issues? What makes U say the fleet is exhausted and broke?
Are U sane?

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