Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "The USN Mothball Fleet - Storing up for a rainy day" video.

@demonprinces17 tbf, Reagan reactivated too many hulls just to have a paper navy of extremely obsolete hulls requiring a decade or more of upgrading just to get them to modern standards instead of spending that money on the ships the navy needed for the future.
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@justaguynamedmax8207 its quite a bit more complicated today than even 50 years ago. every now and then a presidential candidate prattles on about a 300,400,500 ship navy but even regan wasting cash to reactivate every floating hull in the 80s couldn't make an effective force
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occasionally for maintenance purposes they'd throw some surplus rations onto the ships for the feral sailors
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@chuxtuff as someone in recycling, na its not that environmentally friendly but you need that metal so somebody's gotta grind it up and blend it to be re-refined
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