I did a 4 year tour on a minimum manned OHP FFG. It was a happy ship, a good ship, great crew, good times. The final year we were made a Fleet Reserve Ship with augmented SELRES from a local Reserve Center and TAR sailors striped from their permanent shore duty admin billets and force converted to tech and mech ratings. We lost 30% of our Regulars. The SELRES were consumate professionals, good men. They augmented us once a month on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday for underway local ops and for two weeks once a year for underway ops. We never saw the first converted TAR arrive aboard the ship before I transferred. The explanation was that they were either attriting from conversion training or being re-treaded to get through the training. Was there an impact on that minimum manned Frigate with a 30% reduction in crew? Oh yeah. Equal parts of burn out and people rising to the occasion. Minimum manning has never, IMO, been a well-thought-out concept.
USS Pierre? Tie it up pierside in Guantanamo and use it for overflow berthing.
It seems there's always a joker or a committee of jokers who want to make good enough perfect and in trying, poop the bed. The littoral ship is the Navy's brown sheet story. Loss of combined arms capability in favor of missiles is the Marine Corps' very own poop where you sleep story. Every branch of the military has one or more. Maybe senior leadership should have to take a common sense test before being promoted to flag rank...
FOGO's were too busy refining the sartorial splendor of naval personnel with uniform changes and giving feel-good DEI litmus tests to every facet of sculpting a positive image for the Navy. You can't make an omelette, Jack, without breaking a few eggs, some cilantro, sea salt, walnuts and kippered herring.
There are two of them sittin in the Bremerton shipyard, one of each design. They've been there for awhile, probably getting broken up. What a waste of resources.
I did a 4 year tour on a minimum manned OHP FFG. It was a happy ship, a good ship, great crew, good times. The final year we were made a Fleet Reserve Ship with augmented SELRES from a local Reserve Center and TAR sailors striped from their permanent shore duty admin billets and force converted to tech and mech ratings. We lost 30% of our Regulars. The SELRES were consumate professionals, good men. They augmented us once a month on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday for underway local ops and for two weeks once a year for underway ops. We never saw the first converted TAR arrive aboard the ship before I transferred. The explanation was that they were either attriting from conversion training or being re-treaded to get through the training. Was there an impact on that minimum manned Frigate with a 30% reduction in crew? Oh yeah. Equal parts of burn out and people rising to the occasion. Minimum manning has never, IMO, been a well-thought-out concept.
USS Pierre? Tie it up pierside in Guantanamo and use it for overflow berthing.
It seems there's always a joker or a committee of jokers who want to make good enough perfect and in trying, poop the bed. The littoral ship is the Navy's brown sheet story. Loss of combined arms capability in favor of missiles is the Marine Corps' very own poop where you sleep story. Every branch of the military has one or more. Maybe senior leadership should have to take a common sense test before being promoted to flag rank...
FOGO's were too busy refining the sartorial splendor of naval personnel with uniform changes and giving feel-good DEI litmus tests to every facet of sculpting a positive image for the Navy. You can't make an omelette, Jack, without breaking a few eggs, some cilantro, sea salt, walnuts and kippered herring.
The rest sounds pretty good, but hold the herring. If I'm going to put fish in an omelet it will be baccala (salted cod for you non Italians).
There are two of them sittin in the Bremerton shipyard, one of each design. They've been there for awhile, probably getting broken up. What a waste of resources.
Scrap aluminum is going for about 66¢ a pound.