Engagements are and what the price being paid for those engagements really is. Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, i call this joint hearing of the readiness and cpower and Projection Forces subcommittees of the House Arms Services committee to order. First, i would like to honor the 17 sailors who were lost in the uss fitzgerald sailors douglas, noe hernandez, and dakota rigsby, Carlos Victor subayung and the two uss john mccain sailors, kevin bushel, dustin doyen, timothy drake, charles finley, john hogeland, Abraham Lopez and kenneth smith, logan palmer and each one of them is so special to every person here. Over the course of the past six months our subcommittees have met with Navy Leadership to understand the causal factors that have led to gruesome and tragic incidents involving ships resulting in the death of 17 sailors. Our navy remains most powerful in the world. However, the navy is not alone in responsibility. As sales james mattis stated in august. Quote, it creates unpr
D where more than a dozen shipyards really shut her down and leaves us with an industrial basis has for less capacity now. So we need to protect that with everything we can. I think both of you know this but when we stood up at shipyard for mobile, we had the entity under my direction that had to create the workforce for the shipyard in mobile. And we had the lux youre riff time, a whole lot of time, and we had a recession where we had a lot of people lay off. We have exactly the opposite situation right now. We do not have the luxury of time, we have a very active economy where people with those sorts of skills, if we lay them off they can go anywhere and get a job. And its very hard to both train the people that you need to replace them and the people you train will not have the experience that the people theyre replacing had, which means youre going to have a less efficient production schedule. And the ships going to cost more. Which we all dont want the ships to cost more. So i jus
NED buys Richardson, F&W adds Ransome Attachments, Maverick joins Morbark, H&E completes crane sale, and SMH Group adds Wood s CRW in this week s industry roundup.
NED buys Richardson, F&W adds Ransome Attachments, Maverick joins Morbark, H&E completes crane sale, and SMH Group adds Wood s CRW in this week s industry roundup.
Richardson Service 1991, which provides heavy equipment sales and service solutions to customers throughout South Carolina, is now a National Equipment Dealers company.