Mullen: Navy has met challenges

[unhappycamper]

Mullen: Navy has met challenges
By Zachary M. Peterson - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Sep 24, 2007 17:53:23 EDT

As he leaves his job as head of the Navy to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen says the readiness of the sea service has “never been higher,” filling a “rapidly expanding mission set” at a high operational tempo.

Mullen took over for Adm. Vern Clark as chief of naval operations in 2005. He leaves office to take over for Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace as the top uniformed military official.

“We’ve got a rapidly expanding mission set,” Mullen said in a Sept. 18 interview with Navy Times. This mission set “covers a full spectrum,” the admiral noted. This full spectrum includes:

* 143 ships underway in myriad missions around the globe, ranging from counterterrorism and piracy engagements around the Horn of Africa to conducting humanitarian relief in Latin America.

* Sailors ashore in Afghanistan and Iraq serving as individual augmentees for Marine and Army units.


Rest of article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/09/navy_mullen_departs_070924w/



uhc comment: All war, all the time.

[Captain Hilts]

1. The Iraq War has done decades worth of damage to the navy. nt