Has inter-service rivalry destroyed the Navy? From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:
Captain John Konrad, CEO of gCaptain, a website specializing in tracking the shipping industry, blames the “West Point Mafia” and decades of land wars in the Middle East for a hollowed-out US Navy that was entirely “unprepared” for the salvage operation of the collapsed 1.6-mile-long Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland.
Konrad explained, “Truth is bridges are an Army Corps of Engineers responsibility but they are so unprepared they gave the job to Navy Salvage to lead. Navy salvage is so broken they had to outsource it to the US subsidiary/partner of a European firm which is chartering equipment from private companies at great expense.”
“And it’s the Army’s own fault. The West Point Mafia has systematically destroyed our nation’s maritime strength,” he said, adding that China would’ve had the Baltimore shipping channel “fully cleared in weeks,” not months (read more about the reopening timeline here).
Here’s more from Konrad on X and his epic rant against the “West Point Mafia”:
China could have the Baltimore ship channel fully cleared in weeks but yesterday @POTUS said yesterday for the Army Corps of Engineers it will take months.
I blame the West Point Mafia and their budget demon. Please let me explain…
Truth is bridges are an Army Corps of Engineers responsibility but they are so unprepared they gave the job to Navy Salvage to lead. Navy salvage is so broken they had to outsource it to the US subsidiary/partner of a European firm which is chartering equipment from private companies at great expense. Equipment that’s weak & small compared to what the European parent has overseas.
Didn’t Russia rebuild Kerch in two years?
The Village People are still around to make a fabulous in the navy video that would even get Dieter from Sprockets cutting the floor under the disco ball.
The USS Harvey Milk, rusty ships with rainbow flags instills fear in the enemy.
Or those fruit loop kooks in dog masks and codpieces for the next simply divine army sign ’em up video.
Gee, I wonder why recruiting is down by 15,000.
Pappy would be ready to strangle someone if he saw those with a gar cloud of smoke and boonie hat on.
Ivan’s always aces up the sleeve?
Mongolian recruits, MERCS for RF, toys that we don’t even know about, mass production, can you keep up Europastan?
Played SPECTRE-The Four Horseman as background music with Russian ICBM launch footage for fun morale maintenance Sunday.
Just watched video at Sputnik showing a UKE designed and built “tank” that they buried because it is a no go showboat.
Based on the TAHK-64 the “Azovets” is not fit for battle according to Russian engineers and only one was made.
The engineer says this took tremendous money and resources to have such a huge waste, kind of like our indispensable MIC.
Another one shows a brilliantly camouflaged self-propelled howitzer take out mortar crew and ammo depot, showing the difference between right/wrong approach to building military gear.
Also read that UKES are scouring swamps and other areas for abandoned ammo and some men are marrying disabled women to avoid the press gangs.