I don’t know who writes this but you mostly make great points. Here is one from my personal experience. While attached to the U.S. Navy Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) headed by the President VADM John D. Bulkeley, he ordered a special review of Amphibious ships. What we found was Naval Sea Systems Command had covered up the actual cost of maintaining including overhauling the Amphibs by only showing the Navy crew and purposely
not showing the embarked Marines in the equation to calculate future maintenance and overhaul costs. Richard McPherson, LCDR US Navy (Ret)’
My congratulations to whoever put together the list of documents in the listed link. Superb reading material that should be on the Commandant's Reading List.
I don’t know who writes this but you mostly make great points. Here is one from my personal experience. While attached to the U.S. Navy Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) headed by the President VADM John D. Bulkeley, he ordered a special review of Amphibious ships. What we found was Naval Sea Systems Command had covered up the actual cost of maintaining including overhauling the Amphibs by only showing the Navy crew and purposely
not showing the embarked Marines in the equation to calculate future maintenance and overhaul costs. Richard McPherson, LCDR US Navy (Ret)’
My congratulations to whoever put together the list of documents in the listed link. Superb reading material that should be on the Commandant's Reading List.
Ok, that makes me feel better.