“If you don’t have that objective tension, then it becomes a little bit as we like to say in the Navy, a self-licking ice cream cone,” said Adm. Daryl Caudle, commander of US Fleet Forces.
“The ‘combined’ is to highlight that we’re going to start out with these capabilities by being interoperable from the beginning,” Lt. Gen. Mary O’Brien said today, adding another letter to the already murky acronym.
The new budget request seeks the second Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine and two Virginia-class boats, but lacks amphibs, a point sure to irk lawmakers.