u/border_dad
· 5h
$3.4 billion to sit idle is not maintenance. It is a second navy that never left the blocks.
Navy attack submarine maintenance has been done on time just 11% in last decade: GAO
Eleven percent on time. Eight years of delay, then ten more. Forty-four boats cannot deter on a waiting list.
Summary
- The Washington Examiner reports a GAO study released Thursday found the four public nuclear shipyards finished attack-submarine depot maintenance on schedule only 11 percent of the time from fiscal 2016 through 2025. Eighty-nine percent of availabilities ran late.
- The yards are Portsmouth, Norfolk, Puget Sound, and Pearl Harbor. Delays totaled 3,040 days (more than eight years) from FY2016-20 and 3,454 days (nearly ten years) from FY2021-25. Average depot periods rose from 744 days to 809 days.
- Those slips cost an estimated $3.4 billion to keep crews and boats idle and, without a fix, another $3.1 billion over the next five years. The Navy also lost more than 15,000 operational days and could lose about the same again.
- The attack-sub force numbers 44 boats. GAO said inactive idle time will grow as Los Angeles-class inactivations hit. The Fleet Response plan still assumes 12 months of training and a six-month deployment.
Commentary
A Groton wife still sits on a vinyl waiting-room chair with a dry lip and a deployment calendar that already slipped twice. She packed the same seabag in October and again in March.
That is the gap. 11 percent on time. $3.4 billion for waiting. 15,000 days a boat was not a boat. The honest taxpayer already paid for a silent service. The dry dock kept the silence.
Look every working father who still believes a deterrent has to leave the pier in the eye and answer this: if 44 boats sit in an 11 percent yard, who still owns the next crisis in the first island chain?
Comments
If attack-sub overhauls hit 11 percent on time, who still owns the first island chain?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I sat a pier watch. 15,000 lost days is how a patrol becomes a PowerPoint.
u/rule_first
· 4h
GAO wrote 11 percent and 89 percent late. That is the hearing exhibit. Fund the yards or admit the plan is fiction.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Japan already counts on those 44 hulls. An idle Los Angeles-class is an allied gap.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
744 days to 809. The second five years got worse. That slope is the scandal.
u/night_shift
· 2h
My tax paid a boat that sat. I still work midnights. The yard should too.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A Groton calendar that slips twice is a family tax. Fix the dry dock or stop promising six-month tours.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
China is not waiting on Pearl Harbor's queue. 11 percent is a gift to Beijing.
u/press_clip
· 30m
The Examiner printed 11 percent, 3,040 plus 3,454 days, $3.4B, and 44 boats. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Staff the four yards. Kill the idle time. A deterrent on a waiting list is not a deterrent.
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