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WASHINGTON \u2014 The Pentagon\u2019s plans to cut costs by decommissioning the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier<\/a> hit another powerful roadblock Thursday when Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe said he\u2019s not yet convinced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pentagon\u2019s plan is to cancel the planned 2024 midlife refueling to save $30 billion over 25 years, but Inhofe, R-Okla., told acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, Joint Chiefs Chairman Joseph Dunford and Pentagon Comptroller David Norquist, that he was \u201ca little disturbed\u201d by that scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am a little disturbed by the idea that we will be taking the USS Truman out of the system, and I wonder how this will work in our sheer numbers,\u201d Inhofe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inhofe is the latest key lawmaker to cast doubt on the plans. Last month, Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., the head of the House Armed Services Committee\u2019s Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, said he would block the early decommissioning of the Truman as Congress debates the issue in its annual defense policy bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inhofe, another key gatekeeper on defense policy, did not go that far, but he did point to the Navy\u2019s legal requirement to maintain 11 carriers and argued the U.S. needs 10 \u201cto conduct a major war.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow do we get what we\u2019re supposed to have if we don\u2019t follow through with the midlife of the Truman?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inhofe also sounded a skeptical note about relying on the Ford-class carriers as the solution of the future, given the string of problems the Navy has had integrating new technologies into the ship type \u2014 something on which President Donald Trump has also harped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shanahan defended the Truman plans as a component of plans for a two-carrier block buy, arguing it increases the military\u2019s lethality \u2014 and, over five years, saves $4 billion with the two-carrier buy and $3.4 billion with the decommissioning. Until the mid-2020s, the U.S. would maintain 11 carriers, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith this decision, we grow employment in the industrial base. We needed to make sure not only the shipyard maintain their employment, but the supply chain,\u201d he said. \u201cThe funds we freed up by making these decisions are invested in the future force.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee\u2019s Seapower Subcommittee, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, picked up the line of questioning, arguing the move would give the country only 50 percent of the Truman\u2019s life span. She asked pointedly how canceling three years of shipyard work would grow the workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shanahan replied that there\u2019s a combination of work on submarines, new carriers and maintenance at a single shipyard: \u201cTotal employment goes up over the period of time we\u2019re building the carriers,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Replied Hirono: \u201cFrankly, as I talk to some of the people in the shipyards I\u2019m not so sure that that is the case.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turning to Dunford, Hirono noted that savings from the Truman roughly equates with the amount of Pentagon funds for the president\u2019s border wall. Wouldn\u2019t it make sense, she wanted to know, whether the money would be better spent on the Truman since it aligns with the National Defense Strategy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dunford responded that this was a decision above him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf I look at it in the military dimension alone, I have to acknowledge that the [defense] secretary and the president have broader responsibilities than I do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLike building a vanity wall, thank you,\u201d Hirono replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., left, welcomes Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan to testify on the Department of Defense budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 14, 2019. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Soft-pedaling<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the Navy has been busy soft-pedaling the decision to decommission the Truman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his budget rollout briefing on Tuesday, the Navy\u2019s budget director said the decision was made to help the service invest in future technologies but could be revisited pending future analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis approach does pursue a balance of high-end survival platforms like the aircraft carrier, as well as a greater number of complementary, more affordable, potentially more cost-imposing and attributable options,\u201d said Rear Adm. Randy Crites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo we biased this decision towards the future, mindful that we still have time to respond to further analysis. There is a force-structure assessment and other work ongoing that will help us validate this decision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s a message that the Navy\u2019s top officer echoed the next day at the McAleese\/Credit Suisse Defense Programs Conference, saying that future analysis might drive a different approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis year, we\u2019re continuing to study the security environment,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said. “We\u2019re doing a force-structure assessment that will update the assessment that resulted in the 355-ship goal. The combatant commanders are doing their analysis of the security environment and updating their global campaign plans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat work will all be done this year. And what this budget also entails is the flexibility to respond to what those studies tell us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The move to decommission Truman is the second such attempt to can a Nimitz-class carrier early. The last time the Navy tried this was in 2013 when it tried to scrap the George Washington instead of refueling it \u2014 a move meant to save money as the force faced across-the-board budget cuts due to the Budget Control Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That plan was shelved after significant congressional pushback led by Inhofe\u2019s predecessor as SASC chairman, the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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