Word: understrength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget has been very strict the last few years," he added, "and we all know we're operating understrength...
...Ohio's construction is a seven-year ordeal of mismanagement. Certain components were made from understrength steel, and the replacement cost was nearly $1 million. The sub contains 117,000 especially important welds; 2,772 were botched. Rewelding cost $2.6 million. Perhaps the most grievous flaw was in the sub's engine. Turbine blades were a few critical microns too large; they scraped their housing and cracked. It required $3 million to put the blades right. Electric Boat insists that it was not at fault, since the turbine was built by General Electric directly for the Government. Indeed...
...loss of skilled and experienced soldiers and technicians. The Air Force is short 1,650 pilots (the retention rate for Navy pilots has dropped from 62% in 1977 to 31% in 1979). The Army still has its 16 authorized divisions, but the ten based in the continental U.S. are understrength, and a confidential Army report rated six of them as "noncombat ready." Overall, the Navy is short 20,000 petty officers, the Army 7,000 NCOS. One of the most important military requirements is the capacity to airlift combat troops to a crisis area, but the Rapid Deployment Force established...