Report: Decade of Navy personnel cuts hinders current readiness

The Navy’s personnel cuts over the past decade went too far and were based on faulty assumptions, possibly resulting in reduced readiness, according to a recently released Government Accountability Office report.

The Navy has reduced the number of sailors assigned to destroyers and cruisers by 16 percent since 2001.

Those reductions were based on a long-held assumption that at-sea workloads were heavier than in-port workloads, but that assumption didn’t jibe with what sailors told the GAO.

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