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Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?

sevenhelmet said:
FIFY.

What requirements gap is this nuclear boondoggle supposed to fill? As far as I can tell, it's the "Trumps Ego" gap.
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The honest answer as far as I can tell is that Trump is reviving the nuclear cruiser and just calling it a battleship, because Trump needs to maintain his WWF kayfaybe.

I also believe that ASCMs supported by OTHT sensors are the future of blue-water naval combat.
 
Brett327 said:
Does $150 really move anyone's needle these days?
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How much driving do you do? Before the Iran war, my family fuel budget was $300 month for local driving on three vehicles (none are extravagant fuel guzzlers). Now it's closer to $500/mo, so yeah, this would move the needle for me for at least a month. All the more so if I were on enlisted pay, and fuel represented a larger fraction of my monthly budget.

My question is, whose budget got robbed for this?
 
sevenhelmet said:
How much driving do you do? Before the Iran war, my family fuel budget was $300 month for local driving on three vehicles (none are extravagant fuel guzzlers). Now it's closer to $500/mo, so yeah, this would move the needle for me for at least a month. All the more so if I were on enlisted pay, and fuel represented a larger fraction of my monthly budget.

My question is, whose budget got robbed for this?
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No one had their budget robbed--it's from their aid society, similar to Navy Relief.
 
sevenhelmet said:
How much driving do you do? Before the Iran war, my family fuel budget was $300 month for local driving on three vehicles (none are extravagant fuel guzzlers). Now it's closer to $500/mo, so yeah, this would move the needle for me for at least a month. All the more so if I were on enlisted pay, and fuel represented a larger fraction of my monthly budget.

My question is, whose budget got robbed for this?
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Well it’s the Relief Society, so nobody in DoD.
 
sevenhelmet said:
My question is, whose budget got robbed for this?
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During my DIVO tour, the number of Sailors I saw getting the "$500 help with Christmas gifts loan" from NMCRS that then got turned into "grants" the following month because they made up some BS about being unable to pay was large enough that I haven't donated to NMCRS since.

Seeing this gas thing too would piss me off if I was donating to AF Relief Society or whatever it is.

I don't mind helping the troops out - plane tickets back home for a soon-to-be death in the family kind of thing I'm all about NMCRS helping - but the "Gift Grants" and "Here's a random $150," no... learn to budget better guys. Half of you drive nicer cars than I do anyway.

/rant
 
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