"Fundamentally Different"

ADM Roughead had some comments last week on budget cuts. This is posted without comment or analysis, as something to think about.

The Navy will probably cut sailors and could decommission ships because of the $400 billion in military budget reductions passed Monday, said Adm. Gary Roughead, the Navy’s top officer, who was in San Diego Thursday.

But the Navy will still resemble its current self.

If more-draconian Pentagon cuts of $600 billion come later — the scenario if a special congressional committee can’t agree on savings elsewhere — the basic outline of the Navy will have to change, the chief of naval operations said.

“You are cutting deep into muscle at that point,” said Roughead, who will retire in September.

“If you get to that, you are going to have to look at a fundamentally different Navy, probably a fundamentally different military. How it’s postured to respond, where is it, how much of it is there.”