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Современность; Флот;
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Это в 2014. Тремя годами ранее, в 2011, именно сенатор Том Корбан (OK-R)
>>>Отказ от оверхаула позволил направить сэкономленные средства на заказ двух новых "Фордов".
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>>>“The decision to skip the Truman’s RCOH [Refueling & Complex Overhaul] was part of the deal to fund two new carriers,” said former deputy defense secretary Robert Work.
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>>Ну вот мы и получим списание кораблика в 2025-26, и так мне совсем тогда непонятно, отчего именно его? Просто следующий по плану RCOH решили не спасать? Оченно необычно для пиндосов... Наверное и правда бабла нет. Точнее, на ЭТО - бабла нет...
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> February 7, 2014
>The military had proposed mothballing the USS George Washington, reducing the U.S. carrier fleet to 10, to deal with across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration, imposed by Congress. That irked a bipartisan group of lawmakers, who called on Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in a letter last week to preserve what they see as a potent symbol of American power.
>But it soon became clear that any proposal endorsed by the White House to retire an aircraft carrier likely would have been blocked by Congress, opening Democrats to election-year criticism, officials familiar with the discussions told the paper.
>White House officials headed off the issue by telling defense officials in recent days that they would provide extra money — in effect raising the military’s proposed budget — to allow the Navy to extend the life of the George Washington, which was commissioned July 4, 1992.
> https://www.stripes.com/news/us/pentagon-drops-plan-to-retire-uss-george-washington-1.266169
требовал списания корабля без RCOH к 2016