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Mounting evidence presented by high-ranking US military officials to the United States’ Congress make it clear that the American army, once a powerful might backing Washington’s policies around the world, is now slowly, but surely, unraveling.
According to The National Interest, the gradual decrease in military spending by a whopping 25 percent over the last five years has led to erosion of the American armed forces. The news outlet made a chart of six top revelations by military authorities that point to the horrifying scale of problems the nation’s army is now facing.
Marine Corps’ Aircraft Grounded in Droves
The US Marine Corps revealed that two-thirds of the branch’s 276 F/A-18 Hornet strike jets had been grounded because of a lack of financing and equipment weariness. To keep the rest of the aircraft in service the Corps has resorted to "cannibalizing," which is the practice of taking out components of one multibillion-dollar jet to repair another one. This has resulted in a situation in which every serving pilot has only four hours of flight time per week instead of 30 a decade before that.
The Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, faces troubles that the military has long struggled to fix, including issues with onboard oxygen generation/filtration system, which if not fixed properly, could lead to the death of pilots.
Further, one hundred of the 147 Super Stallion helicopters have been grounded due to various technical problems.
Army Brigades Losing Tactical Efficiency and Shrinking in Numbers
As of 2015, only two-thirds of the Army brigades were ready for decisive actions due to budget slashes, according to the Army Vice Chief of Staff General Daniel Allyn. At the same time the US military contingent is shrinking in numbers that “increases the threats and danger to the United States,” Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno said.
By mid-2018, the authorities aim to shape an army of 450,000 soldiers that will be 20 percent smaller than the army in 2012.
Air Force Jets Being Refitted With Parts From Museum Planes
The Air Force’s B-1 Lancer bombers are being refitted with parts pulled out of museum jets to be kept in-service. The components of the F-16 Fighting Falcons are also actively used in repairing other F-16s that constantly need spare parts.
Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James unveiled that less than half of the branch’s forces are prepared for engaging in “a conflict…. where an adversary could shoot us down, interfere with us in some major way in space or cyberspace.”
The B-1 Lancer is 30 years old this year. - http://ift.tt/1U1xqd0 #army #militarypic.twitter.com/KdxPdcyqBR
The Navy’s Dying for More Ships
The US Navy is consistently seeing shortage of ships in their fleet. The budget shortfalls “forced the Navy to accept significant risk in key mission areas,” Admiral Jon Greenert admitted. Currently, the branch needs 350 battle vessels, but it only has 273.
Marine Corps’ Copters Keep Crashing
The average number of Marine Corps’ aircraft crashes has increased twice in a decade, resulting in a string of fatal accidents earlier this year. Over a hundred helicopters were grounded for additional technical checks afterwards.
Memorial at Marine Corps Base in Hawaii for 12 U.S. Marines who died in a helicopter crash last week.pic.twitter.com/pKcKJdCYJ8
Ageing B-52s Called Back in Service Amid Lack of Alternatives
The Air Force has to throw into the fray B-52 bombers, which are more than half-a-century-old, to carry out anti-Daesh operations in the Middle East as the more modern, stealth-capable B-1 Lancers performed poorly in the same campaigns.
© AFP 2016/ EPA PHOTO/PA/TIM OCKENDEN
An American B-52 bomber
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Blogger's note: The collapse of the US Military, and of the US is all in the Globalist's Play Book. That is why they have spent $1.5 Trillion on the POS plane the F-35. Treason is the word, and treason it is.
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