Excuse me one second while I shout from the roof tops yelling I TOLD YA SO!!!!
What the hell am I talking about? I'm talking about the MLP. I stated earlier that the MLP was a ship without a real plan, I stated that all three would instead be gifts to SOCOM to be used as Afloat Forward Staging Bases instead.
I got laughed at. I was told by some "in the know" that I was wrong. Well check this out from Admiral Greenert (basically the only person on the JCS worthy of the uniform) at the House Armed Service Committee.
Navy: This is drawn from Adm. Greenert’s statement to the HASC.He's talking about what will not be bought if sequestration sticks.
One Virginia class submarine would be canceled.
Work on the first replacement for the Ohio-class nuclear missile submarines — SSBN-X — would be delayed fiscal from 2021 by one year, leaving the United States with a gap in the most crucial part of the nuclear triad.
One Littoral Combat Ship would not be bought.
Some 11 tactical aircraft – four EA-18Gs, one F-35C, one E-2D, two P-8As, three MH-60s and “about 400 weapons.”
One Afloat Forward Staging Base (AFSB) would not be bought.
Delivery of the USS GERALD R. FORD (CVN-78) would be delayed by two years, raising questions about whether the Navy could keep the requisite number of carriers at sea as needed.
He's talking AFSB, not MLP.
The Marine Corps bought a toy and didn't know what to do with it. Now the Navy is cleaning up our mess.
Freaking insane.
