The Navy will reportedly sideline 17 vessels due to a manpower shortage that makes it difficult to properly crew and operate ships across the fleet.
There just aren’t enough Merchant Marines to keep all the ships going at once, according to Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation for the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, told Fox News Digital. Merchant Marines operate the many support vessels needed to keep the Navy running.
“The problem, of course, is the ships are at sea, away from home port 12 months of the year,” Montgomery said. “So you need two crews … we’re desperately short of the number of people.”
“There’s a lack of experienced merchant mariners to crew the ships, and this is really a clear danger to national security,” Montgomery added.
Eatgrueldog 
While they’re at it, they should use the USS Harvey Milk for gunnery practice.
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They fired career service members for not taking the jab and expected to just carry on with recruitment as usual. But, but, but, they’re the smartest people in the country, perhaps the world. Just ask them.
Nemo
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If Kamel Toe wins expect a selective service revival.
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Good luck with that. Every God and country guy will tell them where to put it. Hell, I’ll be the engineer on the underground railroad.
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This goes along very well with the general over all work stoppage and tax payment stoppage we need to be doing.
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It does at that. Slow but sure and bit by bit
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Bwahahahaha
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