Maintenance Crisis of the US Navy Fleet Breaking Defense News Site Report: Admiral Daryl Caudle said the Navy is facing a crisis of backlog of repair needs, and it is a multi-year recovery that there is no way around. Referring to the long-term deployment of U.S. warships in West Asia, this senior U.S. military official emphasized that the vessels had surpassed the record for the longest deployment of a destroyer since World War II. Admiral James Kilby, vice president of US naval operations, also warned that the industrial base cannot respond to this amount of repairs in a short period of time and will have to delay repairs or minimize the repair package and sacrifice overhaul.

Maintenance Crisis of the US Navy Fleet Breaking Defense News Site Report: Admiral Daryl Caudle said the Navy is facing a crisis of backlog of repair needs, and it is a multi-year recovery that there is no way around. Referring to the long-term deployment of U.S. warships in West Asia, this senior U.S. military official emphasized that the vessels had surpassed the record for the longest deployment of a destroyer since World War II. Admiral James Kilby, vice president of US naval operations, also warned that the industrial base cannot respond to this amount of repairs in a short period of time and will have to delay repairs or minimize the repair package and sacrifice overhaul.