NORFOLK -- The U.S. Second Fleet, which trains and certifies all strike groups before deployment and employs 348 active and reserve military personnel, civilian employees and contractors, is in jeopardy as the Department of Defense continues to trim its budget.
If the Second Fleet were to be shut down, hundreds of jobs could be lost in the Hampton Roads area.
Retired Navy Captain Joe Bouchard says that any potential cost savings would come at a big price.
Captain Bouchard is the former commanding officer of Naval Station Norfolk and now a board member of the Hampton Roads Military and Federal Facilities Alliance.
"I'm concerned that the Department of Defense is scrambling for savings somewhere in its budget."
He says he thinks that the civilian bureaucrats in the Pentagon may not fully understand the operational impact of shutting down certain commands.
The fleet trains and certifies every ship, sailor, and air wing that heads out to sea, with responsibility over 130 ships and submarines primarily in the Atlantic Ocean.
Security, in addition to the hundreds of jobs, could be at risk.
"We don't even want to think about the degradation of the combat readiness of those forces either to deploy overseas or to carry out their homeland defense role," says Captain Bouchard.
I recall the democraps doing the same thing in the 90's and saying snidely "The cold war is over." Of course they figure if we become weak, no one will want to hurt us. Democraps have never picked up the history book, and when they do all they absorb is "America is evil and bad and must be brought down a peg." That is why democraps are traitorous scoundrels who endanger peace. They prove it over and over again. They are never willing to project strength and prefer to accentuate the feminized weakness that is popular to their constituency. After all, if you build up the military and look too strong, you may lose the "female vote."
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
This is exactly what clinton did! That had a good ending, huh?????
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
there will ALWAYS be a 'cold war'........nothin' new under the sun here except maybe the feel-good podium pucks......and I really dont think that is new either.......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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