Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Internal STRATCOM failure

An email from an exceptionally solid First Class Petty Officer who is a long time friend of this blog outlines the internal STRATCOM failure on our part the last couple of weeks. This isn't the first I have heard of this - what is your take?
... if you have even paid attention to nearly all the talking heads in all of media is basically asking “Where is 5th Fleet, the world wonders?” (to paraphrase a famous message). If I was NAVSEA, the VCNO for ship building, or even the CNO himself. I would be on all the Sunday shows, in front of congress, and with various editorials in main stream papers; basically going “Well golly geez, America I would love to protect our shipping, but…” and throw out the numerous reasons why we need to have better ships, more people, more ships, hell maybe even bring up the idea of the sea basing again from “Seapower 21” as a place to have berthing facilities closer to the region in question. Instead everyone is playing the classic CYA game, ....
We all know what the USAF would do with this opportunity ....

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