I need to stop watching TV (so called) news programs because listening to the party hacks give excuses for the dismal handling of the Gulf oil spill is really starting to piss me off.
We are told that BP has the responsibility for the clean up and the federal government does not have the means to handle the leak. Well why not for two hundred years the US Navy has been charged with not only being a military force but being the American people’s point men (and women) on all thing nautical.
The robotic technology that is now being used to work the leak was developed by the US Navy back in the 60”s and 70’s. The Navy once had the NR-1 a nuclear powered DSV that could have reached the depths they are working at. Who in congress and the DOD let this capability be pissed away?
Yes I am for a smaller federal government but the Navy is part of the smaller government I envision, it is a government function created in the constitution to protect and defend the people. This is one of the functions that the Navy would have been involved in fifty years ago it would have been the lead agency on this leak.
I do not care if the erosion of the deep sea capability of the Navy is because of the lefts hatred of all thing military or the rights misguided belief that all thing should be privatized it is a crime of epic proportions.
Part of my outage is that as an ex-bluejacket I know what my loved Navy could once do. The Navy once explored the depths not only for military reasons but for scientific knowledge. The Navy not only defended Americans access to the seas but worked to develop the technologies need to use and understand the oceans. I want to know when did this changed and why? If this is now to be done by the NOAA and the Coast Guard then why don’t they have the capabilities to fix this mess.
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