Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
It's worth the read even if you have to sign up for it just to read
the story.

From today's New York Times.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 Four years after the Coast Guard began an effort to
replace nearly its entire fleet of ships, planes and helicopters, the
modernization program heralded as a model of government innovation is
foundering.

http://tinyurl.com/yzoddj

absolutely unconscionable. the people at CG stations are already having
to fight the aging fleets and bad equipment...now to place their lives
in danger in this manner...

HP got ****ed when they spied on a few executives. you'd think lockheed
would get a similar ****ing for dicking around with national security
and the safety of coast guard crews.

This is sickening that these companies have put profit in front of
safety of the men that crew these ships. But the CG sailing with
unseaworthy vessels is nothing new. I remember being a crewman on one
ship when we took it into the yards for maintenance. The shipyard went
to sandblast the hull and as soon as they started sandblasting they
started ripping holes in the side of the ship they were amazed that the
ship had not sank while in normal service. A lot of the ships of the
coast guard are being held togeather with JB Weld and super glue.


wf3h wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
It's worth the read even if you have to sign up for it just to read
the story.

From today's New York Times.

----------------

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 Four years after the Coast Guard began an effort to
replace nearly its entire fleet of ships, planes and helicopters, the
modernization program heralded as a model of government innovation is
foundering.

http://tinyurl.com/yzoddj

absolutely unconscionable. the people at CG stations are already having
to fight the aging fleets and bad equipment...now to place their lives
in danger in this manner...

HP got ****ed when they spied on a few executives. you'd think lockheed
would get a similar ****ing for dicking around with national security
and the safety of coast guard crews.

On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:03:07 -0800, wf3h wrote:


absolutely unconscionable. the people at CG stations are already having
to fight the aging fleets and bad equipment...now to place their lives
in danger in this manner...

Unconscionable, but it's seem rather typical of governmental procurement.

HP got ****ed when they spied on a few executives. you'd think lockheed
would get a similar ****ing for dicking around with national security
and the safety of coast guard crews.

There's a big difference. Military procurement and their government
overseers have been in bed together for years. Unless this story grows
into a media event, nothing will happen. Those government overseers are
going to need jobs when they retire from "public service". Want to guess
where they will find them? There are very few government projects that
come in under budget.