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The US Navy is authorized 150 flag officers, and has about 290 ships, including support ships. That one-admiral-per-two-ships navy just experienced an interesting event in the Middle East:

The operational implications are less than ideal:

Compounding the problem is the fact that the Big Horn is the only oiler the Navy has in the Middle East. One shipowner told gCaptain that the Navy is scrambling to find a commercial oil tanker to take its place and deliver jet fuel to the USS Abraham Lincoln…Commercial tankers are significantly slower than Navy oilers, which could leave the USS Abraham Lincoln more vulnerable to attack during aviation fuel loading operations.

Here’s a version of the story at the US Naval Institute News website, which confirms that the navy currently has no other oilers in the region.

Read that letter from the 741 retired national security officials, including a big group of retired flag officers, in this context. The people assuring you that only Kamala Harris has the strength and the wisdom to preserve the lethality of the American military are the generation of leaders who built…this:

They’re the engineers of American decline, and they urge you to vote for the cartel. We need a time-out, because we ran into something and we can’t get any fuel at sea, so, uh. Anyway, Harris-Walz 2024!