Subject: Re: Biden's budget guts the Navy
Dope1: I'll have more to say about why this is a catastrophically bad move, but for now let's just leave this here:

https://freebeacon...


Instead of the Free Beacon (which according to Media Bias Fact Check has a mixed record for factual reporting due to misleading and false claims), here's what Defense News (which is rated Least Biased based on balanced news reporting and High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing of information) has to say:

The Navy is proposing the early retirement of LCSs Jackson and Montgomery, which were commissioned in 2015 and 2016 respectively. These ships were meant to serve for 25 years.

This proposal comes, simply, because the Navy bought more ships than it now says it needs.

Rear Adm. John Gumbleton, the deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for budget and director of fiscal management, said the Navy's requests to decommission 11 ships in fiscal 2024, including eight ahead of their planned end of service life were done after a ship-by-ship review to understand the material state of each of the ships and that 'for the cruisers and [amphibs], the decision to request this divestment was based on material condition, life remaining, cost and then time to upgrade, and of course the resultant warfighting value. These six vessels did not pass."

So, the ships did not pass the return-on-investment analysis.

In addition, under the Biden administration the Navy and Marine Corps' budget would grow by more than $11 billion next year, the most of any of the military services

The Navy and Marine Corps' budget would increase from the $244.7 billion Congress enacted for fiscal 2023 to nearly $256 billion in the next fiscal year. The new money would fund improvements to shipyards, submarines and upgrades to the fleet to make ships more lethal and survivable.


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