Despite Housing Troubles Plaguing Sailors, Navy Determined to Spend Money on Shipyards – By Konstantin Toropin (Military.com) / May 18, 2022
In the wake of a string of housing scandals, including troubling living conditions aboard an aircraft carrier that has seen a cluster of suicides, the Navy is still prioritizing other construction issues over housing, leaders told Congress on Wednesday.
Navy officials, testifying before an appropriations subcommittee, emphasized that much of the construction spending will instead go toward shipyard capabilities.
“With these resources, we’ll continue to optimize our naval shipyards [and] enable operating capability of platforms such as the Columbia-class submarine and the F-35,” Meredith Berger, the assistant secretary of the Navy for Environment, Installations and Energy, told the subcommittee Wednesday when describing the branch’s nearly $3.8 billion construction budget request.
