Many U.S. Navy classic and Super Hornets are parked because of poor maintenance management.
The Navy would like to blame this on the past budget sequester but that is just non-sense.
There was and is plenty of money.
For example, the U.S. Navy recently bought $3B-plus ships for the USMC mission...with no well desk. It is currently building $15B aircraft carriers that will fly obsolete-to-the-threat carrier air wing.
The Navy is all for the faulty littoral combat ship program. Spendthrift Navy is currently fielding "destroyers" that are the displacement of German WWII pocket battleships at $6B each. Like the littoral combat ship, these will be easily sunk and are so expensive, we can't afford to lose them.
The U.S. Navy thinks that the F-35 program has value. It like some of the ships mentioned, will likely get destroyed if taken to war. Interesting because currently, the Super Hornet beats the F-35 in every measurable, practical use for the carrier air wing, even if both would get shot down vs. high-end threats emerging in the Pacific Rim.
The U.S. Navy also has way too many admirals feeding at the pig-trough.
The Navy also lies to Congress--continually--complaining that it doesn't have enough ships.
This is not true.
So, in the end, the issues about the moribund management of the Hornet fleet just means some admirals need to be fired for dereliction of duty.
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