Budget cuts will have drastic effects on the U.S. Navy to include overworked ships requiring extensive and expensive unplanned maintenance, extra-long deployments, and most importantly, losing quality Sailors due to a decrease in morale caused by overwhelming stress and days underway. Senior Enlisted Leaders must understand the effects that budget cuts will have on personnel and also understand the effects that this will have on projecting power and deterring conflict around the globe. This paper will identify the effects budget cuts have on U.S. Navy equipment and weapon systems, explain the driving and restraining forces behind the cuts, and provide a strategy to implement a solution. Problem The U.S. is approximately $18 trillion …show more content…
has gradually accumulated substantial debt and continues to grow larger. In an effort to decrease the national debt, and avoid raising the ceiling again, proposals to decrease the military budget were made. As a result, the U.S. Navy would be effected in several ways when told to operate and maintain assets with $4 billion dollars removed from their annual budget. Effects would include decreased Strike Group deployments, aircraft flight hours reduced, the halting of deployments to Latin America and naval presence in the Pacific reduced. Other include indefinite extensions to Carrier Strike Groups (CSG) and truncating training cycles for other CSG’s, and the cancellations of 23 ship overhauls (Budget Crisis Impact Laid Out By U.S. Navy, 2013). These effects will have subsequent effects on mission readiness, material readiness, and morale. In 2013, the CNO’s number one priority was to get ship’s entered into maintenance overhauls. Without these maintenance periods, material readiness will be less than optimal potentially causing delayed or even cancelled deployments such as what happened to the USS Harry S. Truman in 2013. Shortened training periods provide a substantial liability to the ship and her crew. When a ship deploys it is expected to be able to fulfill a number of missions that a deployment plan requires. A DDG for example is expected to battle adversarial ships, engage hostile aircraft, launch tomahawk missiles, or even intercept ballistic missiles. Specialized training and skills are required to successfully carry out these missions (Fewer Ships At Sea, Fewer Missions, Less Training: CNO’s Sequestration Damage List, 2013). Cutting the budget will not permit crews to become fully proficient to successfully carry out the required missions leaving the U.S. Navy vulnerable in the event of conflict at sea. Now that the driving and restraining forces have been explained, a solution will be
Military spending is also know as a defense budget, the amount of financial resources dedicated by a nation to raise and maintain a country. Since WWII there has been lots of fluctuation of how much the military spends. As we go from president to president we can see constant changes in how much our country spends on the military. In the year 2000 the gross budget of spending was cut to its lowest since 1939. Since then the military has been weaker than it
Ryan Baber Plagiarism Paper The Navy Seals are the most elite warriors in the world. U.S. Navy SEALs and their companion Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen (SWCC) have become an ubiquitous component of the on-going war against terrorism on a world-wide basis, yet, until recently, they have remained predominately and uniquely obscure. They specialize in all kinds of warfare and are most effective from the water.
Early into the war for American Independence, General George Washington, commander & chief of the Army and Navy at the time, knew that in order to reign victorious, it was important to gain naval superiority against Britain. Naval supremacy would give General Washington the ability to keep British vessels from getting safely to harbor to provide supplies, troops, or evacuation efforts for British soldiers fighting inland at the Battle of Virginia Capes, in which General Cornwallis surrendered (Potter, p.52-53). Since then, the United States has continued this long tradition of a strong and powerful Navy. However, in order to take on the beaches of hostile territories, the Navy needs the help of the United States Marine Corps (USMC). The Marine
Advocates for spending make a few points that can’t be ignored. William J Perry of Stanford University and former general John P. Abizaid argue that sequestration, or automatic cuts that are built into budgets, ought to go away. “We want to make two points crystal clear. First, sequester has precipitated an immediate readiness crisis; returning to sequester levels of funding in 2016 will lead to a hollow force. Second, the increases above sequester levels proposed thus far, while desirable, are nowhere near enough to remedy the damage which the Department has suffered and enable it to carry out its missions at an acceptable level of risk.
Instead of another decisive victory at Midway Atoll, a Carrier Strike Force from the Pacific Fleet intercepted the Combine Fleet. The United States Pacific Fleet, under the command of Admiral Chester Nimitz had gained intelligence of the Japanese June 4th attack. From Pearl Harbor, Nimitz sent the Carrier Strike Force, which included Task Force 17, commanded by commanded by Rear Admiral Frank Fletcher, Task Force 16, commanded by Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance. Since Fletcher was the senior, he also commanded the Carrier Strike Force.
The act cut $487 billion from projected defense spending over the next few years. The act also paved the way for sequestration, which would slash an additional $495 billion from the defense budget, for an overall total of almost $1 trillion in
Funding, because adding an additional duty to an employee’s already assigned responsibilities without pay will run into a problem due to employees wanting to get paid a salary that equivalently match their skill set. With budget cuts already in effect, that would create more of a strain on funds. Personnel, because DNI may already be short on personnel due to budget cuts and cannot afford new hires right now. I feel the same restrictions will apply to my Cyber Operations strategy, funding and personnel. I do not see any potential obstacles or challenges to my Intelligence Collections, Processing and Analyzing strategy because DNI is should already be doing technique training on analytic
During the 2016 presidential race, Trump promised a massive buildup in the size of the military, with tens of thousands more troops, a 350-ship Navy and at least a hundred more combat aircraft. As of late, he has boasted of the $700 billion defense budget the Pentagon will soon reap to start the buildup in fiscal 2018. But the commander in chief has neglected to add in the crucial details while Congress has indeed authorized a nearly $700 billion defense bill, appropriators have yet to agree on how much of that will actually be funded. The White House also needs Congress to lift the caps that currently rein in defense spending. All of this is complicated by the administration’s yet unseen National Defense Strategy.
Another risk is veterans on average take longer to complete certificates and college after deployment. According to the VA,
Contract Closeout Procedures The Surface Force Logistics Center, Medium Endurance Cutter Product Line (SFLC-MECPL: all future references will be sighted as SFLC-MEC) is the glue that is holding our cutters together; however, we are failing to meet adequate closeout times with current and prior year contracts. SFLC-MEC Purchasing Agents need more efficient closeout procedures for contracts. The biggest areas of weakness are: failure to closeout contracts, no standard in closeout procedures, and lack of awareness within upper management. This trend has cost the Coast Guard hundreds of thousands of dollars and cannot continue on future contracts.
this recommendation will likely be followed because billions of dollars are being spent so there's hardly any significant impact before the recommendation is pass there has to be a thorough plan for spending and what areas in the DDA need
The goal of the United States Naval Academy is to set the moral, mental and physical development of the students to provide the U.S. Navy with graduates who are dedicated to the Navy and bigger things. 2. The Naval Academy also produces candidates for the Navy’s highest responsibilities of command, citizenship, and government. 3. Most midshipmen also become active in one or more of the 73 extracurricular activities, like choir, drum, bugle corps, publications, drama, flying clubs, and many more.
Since the old equipment is gone the military will also have more room for new
Some of these are a less complex resulting system, simpler logistics considerations, and better and more natural harmony and unity in each service. All of this being said, the future can be expected to see a lot of joint warfare, due to its many advantages. Joint warfare in terms of Air Force and Navy in warfare related to aerial strikes has shown a lot of progress and even more promise in the aftermath of the Operation Desert Storm. Aircraft carriers have since become a titanic icon of naval as well as aerial superiority. At the time of Desert Storm, when such type of warfare was next to nonexistent.
The United States Navy recognizes this trend and maintains a global forward presence in hopes of