Navy installations crumbling after years of neglect are causing "unacceptable risks" to personnel and equipment, the Defense Department asserts in a previously unpublicized annex to a report sent to Congress last month. Further, Pentagon decisions to defer military construction and maintenance projects to pay for programs with a more immediate impact on readiness mean insufficient funding for the limited improvements the Navy has planned. The problems are among the most severe at naval air stations, according to an annex to...
