Ship Building

 

I started the blog in May of 2018, and I believe this is the first time I've posted a Johnny Winter song. If I was planning on driving a long trip, I'd put together a collection of Johnny Winter, Rory Gallagher and Roy Buchanan to keep my eyes wide open for the late-night drive. Hard driving blues and some amazing guitar work.

On a totally different subject from hard driving blues, but going right along with the current topic of government incompetence, there's an article in the current Epoch Times about the sorry state of affairs of ship building and maintenance: 

"the Navy estimates that there is a 20-year backlog of maintenance and repair work that has left much of our fleet undeployable."

"And a 2023 Navy report revealed that we are more than 400 months (33 years) behind in building the Virginia class attack subs that will be replacing our near-end-of-life Los Angeles class attack subs that have been so critical to maintaining our national security"

If they're 33 years behind schedule, will they be obsolete when they finally get built? I mentioned in a post not too long ago of a car on the NASCAR circuit sponsored by buildsubmarines.com. So, it at least looks like the gov is trying to get a handle on it, but they need people and shipyards both according to the article. I don't know what it the hell the government has been spending all of their ginormous military budget on, but somebody needs a first-class ass kicking to have allowed this sorry state of affairs to happen.

On a related subject, I stopped by the college today and the boss man was getting ready to go into a meeting to help determine what the situation will be with the shop being off limits to us for a few weeks. It looks like we might be able to use a high school shop one night a week and the college class room the other night. The high school is a pretty good jaunt from my house, but I'm thinking that would be a good trade off to get the students actual welding practice. How are you going to build submarines if you don't have qualified welders?