Originally Posted by Excargodog

I celebrated my last promotion announcement by buying the wing O'Doul's - at least for those who wanted it. It was all we were allowed. Fortunately I was able to do a real celebration in the week we got back stateside before PCSing to my next assignment. And clearly, the Navy has it a lot harder than the Air Force.

But for the Navy it isn't just the manpower and morale issues. It's also accumulated engineering issues. The shipyards aren't keeping up and most ships are leaving the yard with unresolved deficiencies and more accrue while deployed. And when they do finally hit the shipyard they take a lot longer - backlogging maintenance on the rest of the carrier fleet. It's sort of a domino effect, one carrier's excessive maintenance needs extending the time for the next one to get to the yard which means it's time in the yard will need to be even greater - screwing up the next in line...

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2021/december/let-carriers-do-what-they-do-
best

https://news.usni.org/2020/11/12/no-margin-left-overworked-carrier-force-struggles-to-maintain-deployments-after-decades-of-overuse


https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-20-588


https://www.rand.org/content/dam/ran...RAND_MG706.pdf

One can only pretend that doesn't affect training time and operational capability for just so long. Eventually even the junior enlisted see through it.