Budget instability has forced the Navy to take unwanted risks that may have contributed to the destroyer collisions in U.S. 7th Fleet earlier this summer, according to a top service official. "There's no question that the budget instability has driven hard choices that have caused us to take risk in areas that we would not have liked to have taken risk in," Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Bill Moran told reporters following remarks at a Dec. 4 Washington conference...
