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Idea Transcript
After four accidents at sea, it's time to admit the Navy is facing a readiness crisis thanks to fiscal uncertainty and underfunding.
Bureaucratic budget hawks submitted an anemic budget request for the Navy that doesn't come close to growing the fleet. Tell Congress you support paying for a bigger Navy that can defend freedom and America around the world.
Sequestration-level budget caps harm the ability of the Sea Services to execute the national defense strategy. The relief deal expires in FY2018. Tell Congress to repeal sequestration today.
Tell your Congressman to support H.R. 154 in order to help Merchant Mariners that served in World War II get the recognition they deserve.
The Maritime Security Program is an essential part of our maritime strategy and saves the Department of Defense billions every year. We must invest in this program.
The proposed budget for the Coast Guard is far too small. As a military service with 11 statutory missions, including protecting our homeland from threats, this is unacceptable. Speak up for the Coast Guard--they need your voice now more than ever.
The Food for Peace food aid program is one of our most important cargo preference programs, but it is unfunded in the FY2018 budget request. It creates quality jobs for American mariners during peacetime, provides an efficient and cost-effective means of maintaining essential national defense sealift readiness capability, and it serves as a transparent, reliable, and time-tested tool for fulfilling America’s diplomatic and humanitarian objectives.
Leaders of the Department of Defense, the Navy, and the Coast Guard all support the Jones Act and have spoken in support of it as our armed forces rely on a strong American commercial maritime industry for military sealift. Activists are trying to weaken it, but we must save the Jones Act.
The just-passed National Defense Authorization Act is strong legislation that sets the course to strengthen our military. We need appropriations passed to match the authorized funding levels.
The men and women of the Coast Guard put their lives at risk to rescue over 11,300 people, 1,500 pets, and assist more than 3,623 grounded vessels when four hurricanes hit the U.S. with the span of five weeks. Now they need us to help them rebuild.