Marines Push Quietly, But Hard, For Navy to Replace C-2s With V-22s
WASHINGTON: Landing a V-22 Osprey helicopter-style on the sprawling flight deck of the nuclear aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush was a snap, says Marine Corps test pilot Capt. Dan McKinney. With...
View ArticleNavy Didn’t Fudge Ship Numbers, UnderSec Work Says
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD [updated 7:30 am Thursday 19 April with Congressional comment and Raymond Pritchett’s retraction] : The smartest man in the Department of the Navy, Under Secretary Robert O. Work,...
View ArticleOn 237th Birthday, Navy Feels Its Time Has Come; Budget Pressures Belie...
PENTAGON: “It’s perfectly acceptable to say ‘beat Army,’” the Chief of Naval Operations began, and the assembled sailors laughed. Adm. Jonathan Greenert was making a football joke, but there’s a...
View ArticleJohn Lehman, Gary Roughead: Fix Procurement To Save The Navy
WASHINGTON: In a remarkably non-partisan moment amidst the current strife over budget cuts and Chuck Hagel, Ronald Reagan’s Navy Secretary and George W. Bush’s Chief of Naval Operations told a...
View ArticleGen. Amos, Adm. Greenert: F-35 Essential But Procurement ‘Constipated’
NATIONAL HARBOR: The top officers in the Navy and Marine Corps defended their most expensive program, Lockheed Martin‘s troubled F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, while acknowledging the way the Pentagon buys...
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Can Dems, Pro-Defense GOP & Tea Party Come Together At Reagan’s Tomb?
Less than three weeks from today, a four-star-studded convoy of Obama administration appointees will head west to the modern GOP’s most hallowed ground, the Ronald Reagan Library – and burial site – in...
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What Navy’s New Maritime Strategy Should Say
It’s fair to say that John Lehman is the most influential Navy Secretary of the last half century. Under President Ronald Reagan, Lehman “had an almost revolutionary impact on the Navy,” according to...
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Bilden Would Be Least Experienced Navy Secretary Since 1980
CORRECTED: Bilden is least experienced, not 2nd to last WASHINGTON: Trump’s pick for Navy Secretary, Philip Bilden, has less relevant experience than any of his predecessors since 1980, Breaking...
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Industry Can Build 355 Ships, But Which Ones?
WASHINGTON: Sure, American industry can build the 355-ship fleet both Trump and the admirals want, three former Navy Secretaries said today. We can even build it a lot faster than most experts expect,...
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386! Go On Air Force. Say it Loud. Now!
The Air Force is too small for what it is being asked to do. Here’s what it needs to do to grow.
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