Hull Watch: 355 Ship Navy Might Take Until 2052, Navy Official Concedes
The Navy is going wobbly on its 355 ship fleet, but Capitol Hill doesn't want to hear it.
The Navy is going wobbly on its 355 ship fleet, but Capitol Hill doesn't want to hear it.
Adm. Zukunft says he doesn’t want to return to the old culture of “martyrdom” when the service prided itself on doing more with less even as it ran its equipment and people into the ground.
The deployment comes as Beijing and Washington race to keep tabs on one another in the South China Sea.
There was some good news, and some bad news, for the Navy on Monday.
"Each of your crafts -- electrical, pipefitting, pipe-welding, painting, your riggers… still require some human touch," Kastner told me. "Digital tools… free the craftsman up a bit to not do the grunt work."