Exclusive: Concerns raised over safety of US Navy's Pacific fleet CNN 20170907

【Comment】

美國海軍，居然還要有操作許可執照才行！！

第七艦隊艦隻，訓練執照過期。從2015的7％提高到2017的37％。

這樣很糟糕，軍艦的值勤、訓練、維修各佔1/3。或者，更充沛的是值勤、備戰、訓練、維修各佔1/4。

值勤剁故，就會擠壓到其餘三項。

但，就會連續撞船嗎？

失焦！

Exclusive: Concerns raised over safety of US Navy's Pacific fleet    CNN 20170907

The Government Accountability Office found that 37% of the Navy's destroyers and cruisers in Japan had expired -- up from 7% in January 2015 -- and over two-thirds had been expired for five months or more.

There are 70 to 80 ships and submarines in the 7th Fleet, which is on the front line of sea-based missile defense against North Korea.  he GAO testimony focused on the destroyers and cruisers, the two kinds of ships involved in the four collisions this year.

The Navy's ships require more than a dozen training certifications, including mobility and seamanship and warfare capabilities like ballistic missile defense and surface warfare.

"In contrast, the high operational tempo of ships homeported overseas had resulted in what Navy personnel called a 'train on the margins' approach, a shorthand way to say there was no dedicated training time set aside for the ships so crews trained while underway or in the limited time between underway periods."

The 2015 report cited Japan-based ships in particular for not having any dedicated training time -- an issue the GAO says is still not resolved.

As of June 2017, the GAO found that the eight of the Navy's 11 destroyers and cruisers based in Japan had expired certifications for mobility and seamanship, air warfare and undersea warfare, according to a GAO analysis obtained by CNN.

The most common reason cited for expired certifications was the operational schedule of the ships, according to the GAO analysis.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/09/06/politics/concerns-safety-us-navy-pacific-fleet/index.html