Plural Combat Ship Essay

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The Makings Of A Navy SEAL by Brandon Webb and forwarded by Marcus Luttrell is about Brandon Webb's life on his journey becoming a Navy SEAL. Brandon went through very tough times and also learned how much it took to become a Navy SEAL. After reading this book, I became captivated on Branon’s life. I think that he was a great person and was surprised how much he had to go through to become a Navy SEAL and a Navy SEAL sniper.

The current event under discussion is actually a series of events. This year, four Navy ships have collided with other ships or run aground in the pacific region. This has resulted in at least 7 dead, 8 injured, and10 missing sailors. While Navy ship collisions are rare, the reasons behind these collisions has forced the Navy to reexamine its policies and will impact global leadership.

The United States of America has not always been the world superpower that it is today. The same goes for its Navy. In the first several years of existence, the United States Navy was not a formidable fighting force. The young nation was hesitant to invest in a navy for many reasons, one of them being to prevent provoking the world powers of the time, France and Britain. On top of that, navies were very expensive to build and required a significant amount of resources to maintain, which the U.S. did not have at the time. To say that the United States Navy was ill prepared for war would be a dramatic understatement. The U.S. had a total of fifteen ships in its entire naval fleet compared to the might of the Royal Navy which possessed over six hundred warships. Even with the odds stacked against the U.S., President Madison declared war on 18 JUN 1812. The lack of size and power of the navy at the time would make it extremely difficult to satisfy the needs of the newly founded nation.

During the 2018 Senate budget accountability meeting, Senator Bernie Sanders says, “since 1995 Boeing, Lockheed Martin and United Technologies have paid nearly $3 billion in fines or related settlements for fraud or misconduct- $3 billion collectively. Yet those three companies received about $800 billion of defense contracts over the past 18 years” (Senate). All of these companies are private defense companies that design and manufacture weapons for the Department of Defense if the money if followed. These defense companies have paid 0.375 percent in fines for fraud compared to the amount they were given by the Department of Defense over eighteen

result in the destruction of our Navy.” Taking both of these reports into high consideration, our

American skipper, Tyrrell Jacobs of the Sargo, who had served at the Bureau of Ordnance, was one of the first to realize the Mark 14 torpedo was disastrously flawed. The Mark 14 was believed to be, by everyone except the sailors who used them, the greatest torpedo of its time. Unfortunately, this was not true. The torpedo’s definciency haunted the Silent Service for years before its failures were addressed. The torpedo was found to run deeper, in most cases more than ten feet, than its intended depth, fail to detonate, or to detonate too early. In the early years of the war there were also crippling torpedo shortages. The subs also had insufficient engines. The HOR engine’s gear-wheel teeth constantly broke causing vibrations that would knock out the motor. At this point in history America had little experience in submarine warfare. This left the submariners insufficiently trained and

The contents of this paper reflect my own personal views and are not necessarily endorsed by the Navy War College or the Department of the Navy

Canadian Ships for example have ‘more’ firepower, armor, and better radar systems then they did in the previous generation. But that’s pretty much it, since Canada is only spending 1% of its GDP on its military and defense. It is said that the Royal Canadian Navy is ‘Sinking’ or already has ‘sank enough’. “The once-proud maritime force fell into such an embarrassing state of disrepair.” As said in [Gilmore, Scott, and Meagan Campbell. "The Sinking of the Canadian Navy." Maclean's 128.31 (2015): 14-18. Canadian Reference Centre. Web. 22 May 2016.]. The ships were all in pretty bad shape, and couldn’t function really properly. Compared to its allies, the Canadian Navy is only one-third the size it should be, given our GDP, and can only

In June 2006, The National WWII Museum was contacted by the Defenders of America Naval Museum about the possible transfer of PT-305. The vessel was transported to the Museum campus in April 2007. With the help of the faithful Higgins boat volunteers, PT-305 has been completely restored to her wartime condition. Everything except the weapons are fully operational. Its home is now a custom-built boathouse on Lake Pontchartrain, where guests will be able to purchase tours and rides on the boat. One of the ships was completely restored and set to be moved to a museum back in its hometown. “There’s nothing like this anywhere,” said Stephen Watson, the museum’s chief operating officer (NY Times, 1). “We’ve always tried to do things here that bring history to life in an unexpected way” (NY Times, 1). The maneuver on Saturday, with the 50-ton boat riding on a 64-wheeled, remote-controlled crawler, certainly caught some pedestrians by surprise. Others just had to see it with their own eyes. “Jerry Lousteau’s standard poodle, Satchmo, barked at the boat as it deftly navigated the right turn off Magazine Street onto St. Joseph Street a little after 7:30 a.m. Mr. Lousteau said that his father-in-law was wounded on Iwo Jima during the war, but he confessed he had come out because he just was fascinated by a giant moving operation” (NY Times, 1).

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We think that daily spot hire rate will likely decrease next year. There are two reasons. First, there are 63 new vessels scheduled for delivery in 2001 to increase the supply of vessel and only few old vessels need to be retired, while the demand will not increase because imports of iron ore and coal would remain stagnant over next two years. Second, exhibit 5 shows that avg. spot rate of 2000 was higher than the rate of previous years and avg. 3-yr charter rate. In addition, the market will seemingly go up after two years. Therefore, ship owners should hope to sign short-term contract through using lower daily spot hire rate rather than locking low daily high rate for a long period.

After the collision last month, the heavily-damaged Fitzgerald went back to Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan. The Navy and Coast Guard are investigating the incident. Because of what those seven sailors suffered and what their families are now paying, decency demands that we be cautious in drawing conclusions about the causes of the collision. This collision will reminds us that there is no such thing as a safe

The United Kingdom put its defense under review and decided to reduce the money burden their Royal Navy put on the British people (White paper, p. A-2). It was considered by their leadership that smaller platforms of ships like destroyers and frigates could handle littoral combat if needed. So, the United Kingdom decided to phase out the HMS Intrepid and the HMS Fearless (White Paper, pp.10-11). This of course didn’t work out well because the United Kingdom ended up going to war with Argentina in 1982. Through insurmountable odds, the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy, was able to piece its navy back together and make ships ready for one of the best maritime amphibious assaults ever conducted since World War

We expect the daily hire rates to increase from 2001 to 2002, but then to decrease overall in the long term based on the assessment of the consulting firm. The consulting firm based their forecast on higher demand in iron ore shipments. They claim demand in iron ore shipments has historically shown a strong correlation with charter rates, and we believe this makes sense. Vessel size, distance of route, and demand for ore/coal are drivers of daily rates.