{"id":192663,"date":"2009-03-07T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/07\/is-the-us-navy-falling-to-pieces\/"},"modified":"2009-03-07T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T13:41:00","slug":"is-the-us-navy-falling-to-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/07\/is-the-us-navy-falling-to-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the US Navy Falling to Pieces?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because the service has just <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3968043&amp;c=AME&amp;s=SEA\">classified ship inspection reports<\/a>, and the only reason that I can think of their doing so is to cover up either bad reports on newly constructed ships, or of maintenance shortcomings for the existing fleet:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>InSurvs are circulated widely among commanders and technical authorities within the Navy, but seldom seen by civilians unless they&#8217;ve been specifically requested under freedom of information laws. Even then, Navy officials can redact the names of people; information about classified equipment; or trade secrets of shipbuilders or other venders.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, InSurvs obtained by Navy Times have r<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">evealed severe problems aboard the cruiser Chosin, the destroyer Stout and the amphibious transport dock New Orleans. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m just paranoid, but I think that there are a lot more &#8220;severe problems&#8221; out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the service has just classified ship inspection reports, and the only reason that I can think of their doing so is to cover up either bad reports on newly constructed ships, or of maintenance shortcomings for the existing fleet: InSurvs are circulated widely among commanders and technical authorities within the Navy, but seldom seen &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1006,1161,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-naval","category-secrecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}