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>The Navy can only afford to spend what it has been allowed to spend. I argue it's clearly mismanagement by navel leaders who love toys and see people as cheap
by xnyan 2y ago
>The Navy can only afford to spend what it has been allowed to spend.
I argue it's clearly mismanagement by navel leaders who love toys and see people as cheap. The US Navy gets a very predictable and consistent budget, these days around 200 billion a year plus 50 billion for the marines. They take that budget and put it into various pools, two of which are new ships and labor costs. If they don't have the money to pay a wage that would attract enough sailors to fully staff the fleet, it means they got the ratio wrong and have been overspending on ship at the cost of adequate labor.
- fasa99 2y agoI completely agree with this ratio view. Too much on ships and not enough on HR -> need to decommission the excess ships. To be fair, part of the whole thing is that by the nature of the beast, this requires they have eyes on the macroeconomic structure on the scale of years, which isn't easy. Because that relates to their funding and how desperate people are for work. And ships and ship orders I'm sure take a few years to push through. All that being said, it would have been wise for them to have some hedges in place for such scenarios, and to consider non-traditional employment structures such as "sail from home" type work where employees zoom into the engine room