Since the end of the Cold War, the Navy has gone from having eight shipyards to four. It also found that the Navy had only completed half of its planned measures aimed at streamlining its maintenance backlog and that it had not linked those measures to goals or action plans, Diana Maurer, director of Defense Capabilities and Management at GAO, said in Aug. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found last year that the Navy improperly managed the workflow at its shipyards when it came to managing when its ships go in and out of maintenance. Mismanagement seems to be the name of the game in today’s Navy. A slacking ship captain who lets his or her ship rust clearly is not held accountable by their commanding officers. A rusting fleet symbolizes arrogance and a failure of leadership or at least a confusing chain of command that doesn’t impose discipline. Dilapidated siding with peeling paint usually signifies a bad neighborhood and deeper problem. Moore blamed ship commanders for slacking on their responsibilities to keep on top of rust problems on their vessels.Ī strong fleet must rest on a firm foundation. Moore served as an engineering officer on the USS South Carolina earlier in his career. Naval Sea Systems Command told “Defense News” in 2019. We have to recognize that this is a law-of-physics thing and stay on top of it,” Vice Admiral Thomas Moore, then commander of U.S. It’s in intermediate maintenance and its with ship’s force. We have to be willing to do the work necessary to limit corrosion on the ship. warships he observed were patchwork and incompetently done. Cavas noted the paint jobs he saw on the U.S. Just as with the Soviet era, the Obama-Biden Navy has chosen to do things on the cheap and half-asked. Navy spent $3 billion on rust mitigation in 2014.
He recalled visiting the late cruiser USS South Carolina as it was being removed from service. Navy ships and rust streaks abound.”īack in the early 1990s and in the Cold War that wasn’t the case, he said.
“The dreaded “pinking” of paints introduced in the 1990s is being overcome, but ships don’t look any better unless they’re right out of the yard. For some years now normal exterior wear and tear on ships is left untouched or the haze gray is blighted by patchwork touchup jobs that sometimes render half a dozen shades of gray haphazardly close together,” Cavas wrote in a July 2019 “Defense News” column. “A service that once prided itself on looking sharp and being sharp has fallen by the wayside. Navy used to scoff at images of rusting Soviet ships as a sign of lagging seamanship and warfighting abilities.
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