Seals: We Need More Rifles, Navy SEAL teams don't accept abundant activity rifles to go around, even as these awful accomplished armament are relied on added than anytime to backpack out counterterrorism operations and added backstairs missions, according to SEALs who accept confided in Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.
After SEALs acknowledgment from a deployment, their rifles are accustomed to added commandos who are shipment out, said Hunter, a above Marine who served three activity tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. This weapons carousel undercuts the "train like you fight" appearance of the U.S. appropriate operations forces, they said.
Hunter said he's been contacted by several SEALs, but he beneath to accommodate added advice about the weapons they use in adjustment to assure their identities.
U.S. aggressive admiral said they were searching into the issue.
Veteran Ed Hiner, who spent 20 years in the SEALs, told NBC 7 San Diego admitting it would be nice for anniversary SEAL to accept their own weapon, the actuality is, the rifles yield a assault on deployment.
"You apperceive you can't accumulate it always you got to yield them aback and get them re-rifled and all the aliment done on them because we exhausted them up appealing hard," Hiner said. "You shoot a lot of bullets, so there's no abridgement of weapons."
He said in a absolute world. anybody would accept their weapons with them permanently, but the weapons get attempt out.
The botheration isn't a abridgement of money, according to Hunter. Congress has frequently additional the budgets of appropriate operations armament in the years back the 9/11 attacks, he said. Rifles aswell are a allotment of the atomic big-ticket items the aggressive buys, arch Hunter to catechism the priorities of Naval Appropriate Warfare Command, the Coronado, California, alignment that oversees the SEALs.
"There is so abundant careless spending," he said. "Money is not extensive the humans it needs to reach."
Combat rifles can amount up to several thousand dollars depending aloft the blazon of weapon and above of the architect and added attachments. But the M-4 carbine, the accepted activity burglarize acclimated by the aggressive branches, amount beneath than $1,000 anniversary if bought in bulk, according to Defense Department annual documents.
Hunter wrote endure ages to the Naval Appropriate Warfare Command's leader, Rear Adm. Brian Losey, about the declared weapon curtailment and aswell asked him for a abounding accounting of how the command's annual was spent endure year. Losey has told Hunter to apprehend a acknowledgment by Wednesday.
The agent said in the Feb. 17 letter that the command's operation and aliment annual added by about $11 actor amid 2014 and 2015. Yet it is "suffering from bread-and-butter constraints and abridgement of allotment impacting the adeptness to equip, alternation and abutment the SEALs' analytical needs."
Army Gen. Joseph Votel, the top administrator at U.S. Appropriate Operations Command in Tampa, Florida, and Losey's superior, told Hunter endure anniversary that he is acquainted of the congressman's concerns. "We're absolutely active that down," Votel said during affidavit afore the House Armed Services Committee.
Votel added that heavily acclimated rifles allegation to abide aliment and that may be accidental to the acumen of a shortage. But "we'll absolutely yield actual action," Votel said, if it's bent the activity address of the SEALs is accepting degraded.
One of the SEALs who contacted Hunter abhorrent a slow, avidity authority that rarely seeks ascribe from the account associates who use the gear, according to a abrupt extract of his comments that the congressman's appointment provided to The Associated Press.
Delays of as continued as three to four years anesthetize the accretion system, the SEAL said. Once an account has assuredly been accustomed for purchase, new and bigger accessory may be available, triggering the aforementioned diffuse screening action to see if it's account accepting instead.
Ammunition aswell is in abbreviate accumulation for training, the SEAL said, because the aggregate of it is accepting acclimated for activity missions.
Hunter aswell questioned whether the amount of accretion the admeasurement of the appropriate operations armament could accept larboard too little in the annual for weapons.
To accommodated abundant demand, the amount of active-duty troops assigned to Appropriate Operations Command, which includes SEALs, Army Green Berets and Rangers, and Air Force activity controllers, has developed badly during the accomplished decade — from added than 33,600 to 56,000. There are 2,710 SEALs.
The all-embracing annual for Appropriate Operations Command is $10.4 billion and the Obama administering is proposing a $400 actor access over the accepted absolute for the advancing budgetary year, which begins Oct. 1.
In his letter to Losey, Hunter aswell said he's accustomed letters that the command is apathetic to achieve official biking claims due in allotment to money shortages. This can could cause claimed and able problems for SEALs, who authority high-level aegis clearances, he said.
Service associates who authority U.S. government biking allegation cards are ultimately amenable for any backward fees, absorption and accrued antithesis on the card. So if the government fails to bound action a voucher, the account affiliate ability accept to pay out of abridged or face an behind bill. A blooper in transaction could be forwarded to a acclaim agency, Hunter said, and that could aftereffect in a SEAL accepting declared disqualified to authority a clearance.
After SEALs acknowledgment from a deployment, their rifles are accustomed to added commandos who are shipment out, said Hunter, a above Marine who served three activity tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. This weapons carousel undercuts the "train like you fight" appearance of the U.S. appropriate operations forces, they said.
Hunter said he's been contacted by several SEALs, but he beneath to accommodate added advice about the weapons they use in adjustment to assure their identities.
U.S. aggressive admiral said they were searching into the issue.
Veteran Ed Hiner, who spent 20 years in the SEALs, told NBC 7 San Diego admitting it would be nice for anniversary SEAL to accept their own weapon, the actuality is, the rifles yield a assault on deployment.
"You apperceive you can't accumulate it always you got to yield them aback and get them re-rifled and all the aliment done on them because we exhausted them up appealing hard," Hiner said. "You shoot a lot of bullets, so there's no abridgement of weapons."
He said in a absolute world. anybody would accept their weapons with them permanently, but the weapons get attempt out.
The botheration isn't a abridgement of money, according to Hunter. Congress has frequently additional the budgets of appropriate operations armament in the years back the 9/11 attacks, he said. Rifles aswell are a allotment of the atomic big-ticket items the aggressive buys, arch Hunter to catechism the priorities of Naval Appropriate Warfare Command, the Coronado, California, alignment that oversees the SEALs.
"There is so abundant careless spending," he said. "Money is not extensive the humans it needs to reach."
Combat rifles can amount up to several thousand dollars depending aloft the blazon of weapon and above of the architect and added attachments. But the M-4 carbine, the accepted activity burglarize acclimated by the aggressive branches, amount beneath than $1,000 anniversary if bought in bulk, according to Defense Department annual documents.
Hunter wrote endure ages to the Naval Appropriate Warfare Command's leader, Rear Adm. Brian Losey, about the declared weapon curtailment and aswell asked him for a abounding accounting of how the command's annual was spent endure year. Losey has told Hunter to apprehend a acknowledgment by Wednesday.
The agent said in the Feb. 17 letter that the command's operation and aliment annual added by about $11 actor amid 2014 and 2015. Yet it is "suffering from bread-and-butter constraints and abridgement of allotment impacting the adeptness to equip, alternation and abutment the SEALs' analytical needs."
Army Gen. Joseph Votel, the top administrator at U.S. Appropriate Operations Command in Tampa, Florida, and Losey's superior, told Hunter endure anniversary that he is acquainted of the congressman's concerns. "We're absolutely active that down," Votel said during affidavit afore the House Armed Services Committee.
Votel added that heavily acclimated rifles allegation to abide aliment and that may be accidental to the acumen of a shortage. But "we'll absolutely yield actual action," Votel said, if it's bent the activity address of the SEALs is accepting degraded.
One of the SEALs who contacted Hunter abhorrent a slow, avidity authority that rarely seeks ascribe from the account associates who use the gear, according to a abrupt extract of his comments that the congressman's appointment provided to The Associated Press.
Delays of as continued as three to four years anesthetize the accretion system, the SEAL said. Once an account has assuredly been accustomed for purchase, new and bigger accessory may be available, triggering the aforementioned diffuse screening action to see if it's account accepting instead.
Ammunition aswell is in abbreviate accumulation for training, the SEAL said, because the aggregate of it is accepting acclimated for activity missions.
Hunter aswell questioned whether the amount of accretion the admeasurement of the appropriate operations armament could accept larboard too little in the annual for weapons.
To accommodated abundant demand, the amount of active-duty troops assigned to Appropriate Operations Command, which includes SEALs, Army Green Berets and Rangers, and Air Force activity controllers, has developed badly during the accomplished decade — from added than 33,600 to 56,000. There are 2,710 SEALs.
The all-embracing annual for Appropriate Operations Command is $10.4 billion and the Obama administering is proposing a $400 actor access over the accepted absolute for the advancing budgetary year, which begins Oct. 1.
In his letter to Losey, Hunter aswell said he's accustomed letters that the command is apathetic to achieve official biking claims due in allotment to money shortages. This can could cause claimed and able problems for SEALs, who authority high-level aegis clearances, he said.
Service associates who authority U.S. government biking allegation cards are ultimately amenable for any backward fees, absorption and accrued antithesis on the card. So if the government fails to bound action a voucher, the account affiliate ability accept to pay out of abridged or face an behind bill. A blooper in transaction could be forwarded to a acclaim agency, Hunter said, and that could aftereffect in a SEAL accepting declared disqualified to authority a clearance.
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