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Anonymous ID: 87ed4a June 16, 2022, 4:14 p.m. No.16458656   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8663

>>16458598 Senate Defense Authorization Bill Halts Half of Navy's Planned Ship Retirements

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moar:

 

Senate authorizers want to stop the Navy from retiring half the ships it planned to decommission next year, according to a summary of the bill.

 

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s Fiscal Year 2023 defense authorization bill would halt the Navy’s plans to retire 12 ships, half of the 24 the service proposed decommissioning in its budget request.

 

Should the upper chamber’s bill become law, the Navy would need to keep four Dock Landing Ships, five Littoral Combat Ships, two Expeditionary Transfer Docks and one Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser.

 

The cruiser the Navy would need to keep in service is USS Vicksburg (CG-69), which is nearly finished with a modernization overhaul at BAE Systems Ship Repair in Norfolk, Va. The four LSDs are USS Germantown (LSD-42), USS Gunston Hall (LSD-44), USS Tortuga (LSD-46) and USS Ashland (LSD-48), while the two ESDs are USNS Montford Point (ESD-1) and USNS John Glenn (LSD-2). It’s unclear which five LCSs the committee is saving in its bill. The Navy asked to decommission nine LCSs in the FY 2023 budget request.

 

Asked why the panel is preventing the Navy from retiring some of the ships, committee staff said the vessels still have years of service life left. Staff also noted that the committee included a requirement for 31 amphibious ships, meaning the service would need to keep the LSDs. The LCSs are young ships, and the cruiser’s modernization overhaul is almost complete and would give it more years of service life, according to staff.

 

The bill follows a similar provision in the House Appropriations defense subcommittee’s legislation, which would also mandate the Navy keep five LCSs and allow the service to retire four. Meanwhile, the House Armed Services Committee seapower and projection forces subcommittee’s mark of its policy bill would require the Navy keep Vicksburg and the four Whidbey Island-class amphibs.

 

The SASC bill, which the committee approved on Thursday, increased the defense topline by $45 billion, about half of which will go toward inflation, according to committee staff.

 

The panel met the Navy’s request for ship procurement by authorizing eight battleforce ships: two Virginia-class attack boats, two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, one Constellation-class frigate, one San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, one T-AO-205 John Lewis-class oiler and one T-ATS 6 Navajo-class towing, salvage and rescue ship.

 

https://news.usni.org/2022/06/16/senate-defense-authorization-bill-halts-half-of-navys-planned-ship-retirements#more-95082

Anonymous ID: 87ed4a June 16, 2022, 4:25 p.m. No.16458705   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8723 >>8753 >>8758 >>8769

what the what?

 

How to have SEX with monkeypox: CDC releases bizarre guide telling patients to ‘keep their clothes on’ or ‘masturbate six feet from their partner’ if the urge arises while infected

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells people infected with monkeypox not to have sex with others

But in cases where the urge arises it has issued a bizarre list of the dos and donts

This included masturbating at least six feet away from your partner to avoid catching the disease from each other

Keeping clothes on, or dry humping, was also recommended as well as ensuring any infectious lesions or rashes were covered

People typically catch monkeypox by touching infectious skin lesions

But it can also spread in the air through 'sustained' face-to-face contact

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10923921/How-SEX-monkeypox-Bizarre-CDC-guide-revealed.html

Anonymous ID: 87ed4a June 16, 2022, 4:35 p.m. No.16458735   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9300 >>9333 >>9346 >>9439

well this is awkward…

 

Joe Biden believes Mohammad bin Salman ordered Jamal Khashoggi hit

 

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday said President Biden, who is visiting Saudi Arabia next month, believes that the country’s crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman, ordered the 2018 operation that killed Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia in mid-July as he seeks to thaw US-Saudi relations amid record-high gas prices. He has agreed to meet with MBS on that trip despite previously seeking to sideline bin Salman.

Khashoggi’s fiancee this week beseeched Biden to cancel the meeting, telling him, “you are dishonoring yourself” and “putting oil over principles” by agreeing to the sit-down.

 

Jean-Pierre was pressed repeatedly Thursday on the matter at her regular briefing by Washington Post reporter Matt Viser, who cited a US intelligence community report that assessed that the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia ordered the operation.

“The executive summary of this report says ‘we assess that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammad bin Salman ordered the operation’ to capture and kill [Khashoggi],” Viser said.

“And he released the report, right?” Jean-Pierre said, at first sidestepping whether Biden agreed with the finding.

“But does he agree with that assessment?” Viser pressed.

“I’m telling you this is something that the president takes very, very seriously. And he released that report, so clearly he would not release that report if it’s not something he believed in,” Jean-Pierre said.

 

https://nypost.com/2022/06/16/joe-biden-believes-mohammed-bin-salman-ordered-jamal-khashoggi-hit/