WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! <A HREF="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_dougherty/20000909_xnjdo_admiral_fe .shtml">Admiral fears U.S. not ready</A> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_dougherty/20000909_xnjdo_admiral_fe.shtml Admiral fears U.S. not ready Active-duty commander in Pacific: too many missions, too few funds By Jon E. Dougherty � 2000 WorldNetDaily.com Calling the U.S. Navy an "undervalued" asset, the new commander of U.S. naval air forces in the Pacific said current funding levels have made it nearly "impossible" to carry out the missions ordered by the Clinton-Gore administration. Vice Adm. John Nathman, in comments delivered during his command acceptance speech Aug. 23 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Constellation, made clear "two fundamental issues" the Navy, in particular, and the military, in general, should understand: "demand and value." "This nation, its president and its citizens demand global stability, demand a world inclined to democratic ideals and countries that will protect the rights of their citizens," Nathman told about a thousand Navy and Marine Corps personnel, according to a Navy press release. However, he said, "the fact is that we have reached such a low level of funding, it will soon be impossible to meet the expectations of this nation in executing our operational tasks and completing the mission[s]" ordered by civilian leaders. "We will be asked -- no, ordered -- to train, deploy, and engage," he said. "We engage diplomatically with our forward presence and, if necessary, in combat to sustain those demands. "Is it not right, then, that our men and women have demands, too?" Nathman said. For example, the Pacific Fleet air commander said naval enlisted and officer personnel were in need of "modern and capable aircraft" for "pilots and aircrews" sent "daily into harm's way." Also, personnel should expect to be able to work "in efficient, clean, connected and even new hangers and work spaces," necessities Nathman and other military personnel have said were increasingly lacking under the Clinton-Gore administration. "Isn't it right that my naval air force be sustained at levels which support our operations and tempo?" Nathman said. "Isn't it right that our sailors and their families are paid enough to live in dignity?" "There is a fundamental disconnect between the value we provide and the willingness of the richest nation on earth to pay for its demands," he said. "It is obvious -- the naval service is undervalued. This is the challenge -- it must be resolved." Meanwhile, a Navy commander based at the Fleet Training Range in San Diego said Nathman's assessment of his new command assignment were "the first substantive comments I have seen from one of our senior military leaders." The officer, who requested anonymity, said Nathman's comments more closely supported the "accurate" and telling claims made by "Bush/Cheney ... that our military is under-funded and not ready to meet its responsibilities." P-3C Orion aircraft The officer said that recently four squadrons of P-3 Orions -- naval anti-submarine warfare aircraft -- have had to "cancel training events in the next two weeks because of a lack of airworthy aircraft." "We see, on a daily basis, other aviation communities experiencing the same diminished availabilities," the officer told WorldNetDaily. Most often, "the first events that get cut are the tactical/operational training events. Pilot proficiency -- safety -- and 'real world' tasking have the priority." The commander said he had recently been overseas in Asia during a two-week exercise and witnessed "five U.S. warships -- including the flagship for the U.S. Seventh Fleet -- restricted from getting underway due to steaming-dollar shortfalls." "It took an incoming typhoon to authorize the flagship to get underway," the officer said. The issue of military readiness, while not completely catching on with U.S. voters, has increasingly become important to both major party presidential candidates. At the urging of Republican nominee George W. Bush, Democratic candidate Al Gore has been forced to respond to charges from Bush and former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney that the military is unprepared, over-deployed and under-funded. On Thursday, Bush again hit the military theme hard on the campaign trail, addressing a veterans group in Dayton, Ohio. The Texas governor, surrounded by retired generals Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf, pushed military modernization as a way to ensure global stability. The U.S., Bush said, "has the opportunity to redefine how war is fought and won in the future and, therefore, we have the opportunity to redefine how the peace is kept." Powell agreed, saying "the answer" to military readiness for any future U.S. force "is we have to invest in readiness; we have to buy the equipment we need in the future; we have to plan for the transformation of the armed forces in the 21st century." "We've done a pretty lousy job of predicting who our next enemy is going to be" in the last century, Schwarzkopf added. "We have somebody who is going to step up and who has clearly recognized the problem," he said, referring to Bush. For his part, Cheney, campaigning at a Portland, Maine, plant that makes valves for submarines, said the administration had failed to invest enough money in new military technology and equipment. The failure, he added, had left the nation at greater risk of both domestic and international terrorism. <A HREF="http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/military_erosion.html">AMPP: Erosion of Military Readiness - Part 1</A> http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/military_erosion.html *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. 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