CVFC PAC: While Navy Pushes Pride, 40% of Our Nuclear Attack Subs Are Out of Commission

Wokester policies in DoD will lose the next war

This is an editorial from the Combat Veterans for Congress Political Action Committee that exposes the misguided and destructive policies being implemented in the US Navy at the expense of submarine readiness. It is posted here with permission of the author. CVFC PAC supports the election of US military combat veterans to the US Senate and House of Representatives. Their cause is righteous, and generous donations are welcome at the link at the end. Note: I am on the PAC’s board of directors in the capacity of Director of Congressional and Public Relations.

The editorial begins:

The US Navy has a commissioned fleet of 71 Nuclear Submarines.  There are 53 Nuclear Attack Submarines, 14 Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines and 4 Nuclear Cruise Missile Submarines.  

In 2020, 28% of the Navy’s Nuclear Submarines, or 20 Nuclear Attack Submarines were out of commission.  In 2021, 33% of the Navy Nuclear Submarines, or 23 Nuclear Attack Submarines were out of commission.  By 2022, that number had increased to 37%, or 26 Nuclear Attack Submarines, and by 2023 40 %, or 28 Nuclear Attack Submarines are out of commission.

The Occupant in the Oval Office has ordered the Secretary Of Defense, the Secretary of the Navy, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) to focus on the administration’s specific priorities, such as Global Warming, Partisan Leftist Causes, and to aggressively push Pride, instead of putting the highest priority on getting the Navy’s Nuclear Attack Submarines that are out of commission, back into commission, so that all 71 Nuclear Submarines are able to deploy. 

The outrageous facts reported in Daniel Greenfield’s below listed article, explain how totally compromised and WOKE the US Navy has become.  US Navy Admirals push “Pride,” instead focusing on getting all the US Navy’s Nuclear Submarines back into a state of operational readiness.   Because of the way the US Navy has poorly managed the maintenance and repair of the US Navy Nuclear Attack Submarines, and because the numbers of those out of commission Nuclear Submarines keeps increasing, without the Navy leaders solving the reasons for the increasing number of out of commission Nuclear Attack Submarines, that trend will most probably continue to increase.  

The US Navy’s 43 operational Nuclear Submarines are opposed by hundreds of Communist Chinese, Russian, and Iranian Nuclear and Diesel Submarines.  The US Pacific Fleet Submarine Commander (SUBPAC), Rear Admiral J.T. Jablon, USN has “committed to broadening the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) of our Submarine Force”, but hasn’t made any comments about the Navy’s plans to bring 40% of the Navy’s out of commission Nuclear Submarines, to an operational state of readiness. 

For the last two and a half years, the indoctrination and brainwashing of DEI  “failed” to improve the “Combat Effectiveness” and the “Unit Cohesion” of personnel in the US Navy, and the US Navy Submarine Force has done nothing to put 28 Nuclear Attack Submarines back in commission, so they can get underway.  If Admiral Rickover, the Father of the Nuclear Navy, knew that 40% of the US Navy Nuclear Submarine Force cannot even get underway, he would be turning over in his grave.

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro who served on the US Naval Academy Alumni Association’s Special Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), to purge all political dissent. He has not been able to resolve the US Navy’s Nuclear Attack Submarines operational readiness problems, but he has promised that, like California, the Navy would reach “net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050”.  The Navy has been spending $718 million/year from its annual budget on Global Warming initiatives, or $1.89 billion since the Biden/Obama administration was inaugurated.  That $1.89 billion should be spent on repairing ships in the fleet, including 40% of the Nuclear Attack Submarines that are out of commission, back to an operation state of readiness.

A GAO Report warned that the US Navy is not ready for a military conflict, and that although “the Navy could handle a single battle damage event,” that it was “uncertain whether the Navy would be able to handle multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous events.”  That GAO Report revealed the fact that the 28 Nuclear Attack Submarines are unable to get underway because of the US Navy’s repair procedures, shipyard execution, and because of the lack of material required for repairs.  The DOD and the US Navy failed leadership has also not been able to improve or maintain the “Combat Effectiveness” the US Navy’s Nuclear Submarine Force. 

A Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Report stated that 40% of the Navy’s Nuclear Submarines remain out of commission because of the lack of proper “planning, (the failure of) shipyard execution, and material shortages”.  For the last three years, the Navy Supply System should have initiated an emergency worldwide search for material needed to repair 28 Nuclear Attack Submarines; that effort could have been funded by the $1.89 billion budgeted for Global Warming.  The NAVSEA Report exposed the failure of the leadership of DOD and CNO to execute the repair, maintenance, and source the material necessary to repair 28 Nuclear Submarines. 

Unfortunately, Obama’s Flag screening boards eliminated from consideration highly qualified combat tested officers for promotion to Flag Officer, yet approved the selection of less qualified, diverse, females, partisan, and Woke officers who promoted Pride for promotion to Flag Officer.  Some of those Flag Officers have been involved in the repair and maintenance of Nuclear Submarines and the procurement of material thru the Naval Supply System to repair out of commission Navy Nuclear Submarines, the inability of those Flag Officers to reduce the number of out of commission Nuclear Attack Submarines.   

During the last two and a half years, the Secretary of Defense and the CNO failed to focus on the need to repair the Navy’s Nuclear Attack Submarines that are out of commission and cannot get underway.  That failure to source scarce materials for repairs further demonstrates the unsatisfactory management of repair and maintenance for Nuclear Submarines.  If the 28 Nuclear Submarines that are currently out of commission were repaired and were able to deploy along with the 43 current operational Nuclear Submarines, they collectively would contribute toward the success of US Naval Forces operating in conflict against the Communist Chinese Navy.

Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62

CAPT, USN(Ret)/Former FBI

Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC

2307 Fenton Parkway, Suite 107-184

San Diego, CA 92108

https://www.CombatVeteransForCongress.org

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