Comments on: MV-22: General Trautman, your job is on Line 1… http://nextnavy.com/mv-22-general-trautman-your-job-is-on-line-1/ Future maritime security Thu, 17 May 2012 01:07:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Craig Hooper http://nextnavy.com/mv-22-general-trautman-your-job-is-on-line-1/comment-page-1/#comment-547 Craig Hooper Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:47:50 +0000 http://nextnavy.com/?p=423#comment-547 Blacktail--In the General's defense, I think he was celebrating the 100th Osprey produced (as in total--those built for development, testing, the Air Force and the Corps) versus the total number yet delivered to the Marine Corps. The General has been very effective in meeting self-imposed deadlines. When he said the Ospreys were going to the 'Stan by date X, they got there. When he said they were going to have a gun in the 'Stan, they did. When he said he'd debrief about the first Osprey deployment in Iraq, he did. Wish he'd focused more on reliability/maintenance. The supply chain thing has not gotten better since 2007--when they went to war with a ton of extra parts and extra maintainers from the company. MC rates are going down, not up. But...it's the super low CONUS MC rates that surprise me...We can't cannibalize 40% of the fleet to keep 7 of ten deployed birds operating. If we're "aggressively sparing" at such a rate, how in the hell are we going to deploy a second squadron and hope that it will have anywhere near 70% MC? Blaming the low MC rates on the sand and supply chain don't cut it. That's not leadership...it's aiding and abetting poor performance. Blacktail–In the General’s defense, I think he was celebrating the 100th Osprey produced (as in total–those built for development, testing, the Air Force and the Corps) versus the total number yet delivered to the Marine Corps.

The General has been very effective in meeting self-imposed deadlines. When he said the Ospreys were going to the ‘Stan by date X, they got there. When he said they were going to have a gun in the ‘Stan, they did. When he said he’d debrief about the first Osprey deployment in Iraq, he did. Wish he’d focused more on reliability/maintenance.

The supply chain thing has not gotten better since 2007–when they went to war with a ton of extra parts and extra maintainers from the company. MC rates are going down, not up. But…it’s the super low CONUS MC rates that surprise me…We can’t cannibalize 40% of the fleet to keep 7 of ten deployed birds operating. If we’re “aggressively sparing” at such a rate, how in the hell are we going to deploy a second squadron and hope that it will have anywhere near 70% MC?

Blaming the low MC rates on the sand and supply chain don’t cut it. That’s not leadership…it’s aiding and abetting poor performance.

]]> By: Blacktail http://nextnavy.com/mv-22-general-trautman-your-job-is-on-line-1/comment-page-1/#comment-536 Blacktail Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:13:31 +0000 http://nextnavy.com/?p=423#comment-536 Remember what Aviation Week reported in January? Gen. James Conway (USMC Commandant) openly stated that the readiness rates of V-22s in Afghanistan were "...rising steadily through the 70 percent and 80 percent range...", and that they were "...on that trajectory..." to "...'climb the ladder to the 90 percent' range...". For those that forgot, here's it is; http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A19d5e4de-8de8-4d8c-8e20-fcf3a79cf9bd Assuming he wasn't telling a bald-faced LIE about the V-22's readiness rates "...rising steadily through the 70 percent and 80 percent range...", it seems that sustained operations have caused it's readiness rate "trajectory" to do a U-turn. Then again, knowing Trautman, it likely is a lie after all. Let's not forget how he stated in testimony before Congress on May 23, 2009 that "We have accepted delivery of 91 Ospreys, a quarter of our program objective of 360 aircraft."; http://oversight.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2589&Itemid=2 ...even though he had attended the ceremony for the 100th V-22 delivered! Does the photo in this story look familiar to you?; http://www.amarillo.com/stories/031308/bus_9839510.shtml Remember what Aviation Week reported in January? Gen. James Conway (USMC Commandant) openly stated that the readiness rates of V-22s in Afghanistan were “…rising steadily through the 70 percent and 80 percent range…”, and that they were “…on that trajectory…” to “…’climb the ladder to the 90 percent’ range…”.

For those that forgot, here’s it is;
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A19d5e4de-8de8-4d8c-8e20-fcf3a79cf9bd

Assuming he wasn’t telling a bald-faced LIE about the V-22′s readiness rates “…rising steadily through the 70 percent and 80 percent range…”, it seems that sustained operations have caused it’s readiness rate “trajectory” to do a U-turn.

Then again, knowing Trautman, it likely is a lie after all. Let’s not forget how he stated in testimony before Congress on May 23, 2009 that “We have accepted delivery of 91 Ospreys, a quarter of our program objective of 360 aircraft.”;
http://oversight.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2589&Itemid=2

…even though he had attended the ceremony for the 100th V-22 delivered! Does the photo in this story look familiar to you?;
http://www.amarillo.com/stories/031308/bus_9839510.shtml

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