30 years ago there was no need to do any of that, again, you keep saying it’s impossible when it really isn’t. It just requires funding and political will.
The felon in chief is all talk on almost everything including increasing shipbuilding. He’ll just continue the Biden program and then take credit for the new ships started while he was in office.
First ones going down the slipways of smaller yards in 2038 is better than 2050.
As you said, this should have been focused on and started years ago, and if we don’t get started now, we or someone else will be having an almost identical conversation again in 2040 or 2060.
Getting started late is better than never starting at all.
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As for finding sailors to man ships, again, easy raise pay. This is probably the easiest one to fix.
$10k signing bonus for all rates, base E1 pay $40k/year will attract a lot more people.
The military pays shit for the sacrifices you’re making in your life, especially the navy where you’ll spend 30-50% of your time between deployments at sea still.
