GAO: Delayed ship maintenance threatens Navy's ability to meet operational demands
Source: The Virginia Pilot
After years of long and repeated deployments to the Middle East, the Navy’s fleet of warships is behind on maintenance, possibly threatening the service’s ability to meet future missions overseas.
That’s according to a report released Monday by the Government Accountability Office, which found that the Navy bypassed some ship maintenance over the past 15 years to keep pace with the demands of multiple wars.
That’s led to a backlog in work needed to keep the fleet going.
“These decisions have reduced the predictability of ship deployments for sailors and for the ship repair industrial base,” the report said. “They have also resulted in declining ship conditions across the fleet and have increased the amount of time that ships require to complete maintenance in the shipyards.”
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I worked over 30 years in manufacturing, Maintenance.....Trying to perform maintenance of machinery was like trying to change a tire on a moving car....Management just wouldn't let us shut down long enough, to get it done. I'd just wait for stuff to break, and perform rebuilds..That's the only time anything got serviced....
