Americans for a Stronger Navy is a community-driven group dedicated to promoting peace through the strength and readiness of the U.S. Navy
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Almost everyone in Washington agrees we need more ships. The fight is over which ones, who builds them and who pays.
Arguments stall. Common ground moves.
America at Sea: Voices That Matter kicks off today.
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Battle of Leyte Gulf: Logistics and What Ifs? | Anniversary of Largest Naval Battle in History
⚓️The Toll of Continuous Combat: Why 11 months of near-nonstop operations since late 1943 had ground down the ships, crews, and air wings of Task Force 38—forcing key units to detach for maintenance and overhaul right before the battle.
⚓️The Sibuyan Sea & The Loss of USS Princeton: The initial strikes on Kurita’s Center Force, the sinking of the super-battleship Musashi, and how the carrier Princeton was lost to land-based air attacks.
⚓️Halsey’s Move North & Task Force 34: The rationale behind Halsey pursuing Ozawa’s carrier decoy force, the critical role of anti-aircraft screens and VT fuses, and the decision not to leave a surface line guarding the San Bernardino Strait.
⚓️Tactical Positioning at Samar: An analysis of Taffy 3’s heroic stand, questioning the positioning of Rear Admiral Clifton Sprague’s escort carriers close to the coast versus operating farther offshore.
⚓️The Surigao Strait Victory & A Missed "Second Surigao": Rear Admiral Oldendorf’s devastating crossing of the T against the Japanese Southern Force—and what might have happened had his battle line intercepted Kurita at the Leyte Gulf entrance in broad daylight.
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"The raises don't reflect the sacrifice of being away for six to eight months."
We talk a lot about ships. Nick Littlepage, a former merchant marine engineer, reminds us someone has to sail them.
America at Sea: Voices That Matter
@SenMarkKelly @SenToddYoung @RepTrentKelly @RepGaramendi
The SHIPS Act builds demand. A former merchant marine engineer says the supply side still needs work: yards that can't hold crews between orders, and mariners leaving for jobs ashore.
7 minutes, worth hearing.
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"The raises don't reflect the sacrifice of being away for six to eight months."
We talk a lot about ships. Nick Littlepage, a former merchant marine engineer, reminds us someone has to sail them.
America at Sea: Voices That Matter
Idea 2: no federal income tax for mariners on U.S.-flag ships in commercial trade.
Nick’s reasoning: raises don’t reflect six to eight months away from home.
Worth the cost? @Maritime_Trades @fmrhiseasenginr @cpgrabow
Thank you, Nick Littlepage @fmrhiseasenginr, for adding a mariner's voice to America at Sea. 13 years in engine rooms, and you still came with solutions, not just complaints.
Full transcript:
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Idea 1: build one ship in a U.S. yard, bring one foreign-built sister ship into the Jones Act trade.
Faster fleet growth, or a crack in the wall?
@Maritime_AMC @AMPmaritime @ShipbuildersUSA @cpgrabow @scottlincicome
Your take? 10 minutes, 3 questions. We’ll share it.
Nick's MIRA has four parts. He says himself it will bother both Jones Act purists and abolitionists. That's the point of the series: we'd like to hear from both sides.
@cpgrabow
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Full transcript and Nick's three answers, including his MIRA proposal:
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@USAMaritimeX
FAR FROM HOME. STANDING THE WATCH.
Welcome home, USS McFaul, USS Frank E. Petersen Jr., USS Pinckney, and USS Thomas Hudner and the ships that supported them.
To our sailors and their families: Thank you for your service and sacrifice.
To those still deployed: We haven't forgotten you.
@USNavy @SurfaceWarriors @SECNAV
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When America ships, America wins.
A plain-English guide to the pending SHIPS for America Act, for families and veterans: what’s in it, who pays, and the issues being debated.
Our job is to help you understand what’s being decided.
@navyleagueus @USNavyMemorial @SurfaceNavy @FRAHQ @SeafarersUnion @MEBAunion @MMPunion @AMOunion
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China built more than half the world’s new ships last year. We built one-tenth of one percent.
At the end of November we deliver a common-ground report to Congress. We’re asking shipbuilders, mariners, labor, ports, veterans, navalists and advocates: what’s working, what’s in the way, and what would you fix first?
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@USAMaritimeX @CDRsalamander @USNavalInstitute @CIMSEC @NavyLeague @HASCRepublicans @HASCDemocrats @SenateCommerce @USNINews @BreakingDefense
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Can America’s shipyards deliver what the SHIPS Act asks for?
Clay Wirsing of @USAMaritimeX, a former Newport News welding engineer, answers our three questions: what’s working, what’s in the way, and what he’d fix first.
@brentdsadler @SenToddYoung @SenMarkKelly
China built more than half the world’s new ships last year. We built one-tenth of one percent.
At the end of November we deliver a common-ground report to Congress. We’re asking shipbuilders, mariners, labor, ports, veterans, navalists and advocates: what’s working, what’s in the way, and what would you fix first?
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@CSIS @HudsonInstitute @AEI @CNA_org @WarOnTheRocks @CFR_org @BrookingsInst @RANDCorporation @NavalWarCollege @CNASdc
China built more than half the world’s new ships last year. We built one-tenth of one percent.
At the end of November we deliver a common-ground report to Congress. We’re asking shipbuilders, mariners, labor, ports, veterans, navalists and advocates: what’s working, what’s in the way, and what would you fix first?
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@SIUNA @MEBAUnion @MMPUnion @maritimetrades @AFLCIO @mercoglianos @USNavy @AmericanLegion @VFWHQ
China built more than half the world’s new ships last year. We built one-tenth of one percent.
At the end of November we deliver a common-ground report to Congress. We’re asking shipbuilders, mariners, labor, ports, veterans, navalists and advocates: what’s working, what’s in the way, and what would you fix first?
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@HIIQ @AustalUSA @AmMaritimePart @MARADgov @USMMA @USCG @SeapowerMag @gCaptain @Lazarus_Navy @NextNavy
China built more than half the world’s new ships last year. We built one-tenth of one percent.
At the end of November we deliver a common-ground report to Congress. We’re asking shipbuilders, mariners, labor, ports, veterans, navalists and advocates: what’s working, what’s in the way, and what would you fix first?
strongernavy.org/americans-f…
@USAMaritimeX @CDRsalamander @USNavalInstitute @CIMSEC @NavyLeague @HASCRepublicans @HASCDemocrats @SenateCommerce @USNINews @BreakingDefense
Can America’s shipyards deliver what the SHIPS Act asks for?
Clay Wirsing of @USAMaritimeX, a former Newport News welding engineer, answers our three questions: what’s working, what’s in the way, and what he’d fix first.
@brentdsadler @SenToddYoung @SenMarkKelly
Clay Wirsing on the cargo and LNG sections of the SHIPS Act, and why he’d start with ships we already know how to build. @RepMikeEzell @RepCarbajal @SenTedCruz @SenatorCantwell
From the shipyard floor: can U.S. yards build what’s being asked of them, and how fast? @RepJoeCourtney @RobWittman @SenatorWicker @SenJackReed @RepMikeRogersAL
