Navy's training, testing plans include 'degree of risk' to not meet future national emergencies

By Justin Katz / January 2, 2019 at 1:51 PM
The Navy's plans to train and test future sonars and explosives in Hawaii and Southern California are modeled off of fluctuations in training and deployment cycles, which means the service is accepting "a degree of risk" that it will not have sufficient capacity to conduct that training to meet future national emergencies, the service announced last month. The Navy published a record of decision last month that accompanies an October 2018 environmental impact statement concerning testing and training in the...

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