60 minutes has been looking into a series of eerily similar incidents going back years,
And there haven't been answers for similar encroachments for more than five years.
For years, the Pentagon did little to dispel speculation these images taken with night vision
Luis Elizondo spent 20 years running military intelligence operations worldwide in Afghanistan,
Every day for at least a couple of years.
Wait a minute, every day for a couple of years?
Nothing was said or done officially for five years
While the U.S. spent 20 years fighting land wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,
You've been operating as a naval officer for 40 years.
to visit Taiwan in 25 years, China called it a blatant provocation.
U.S. Marines recaptured it two and a half years later.
And by a generation, I think 10 or 20 years, but broadly, I don't really talk in depth about submarine capabilities.
How would you describe what China has been able to do militarily over the last 20 years?
What lessons did the U.S. Navy learn from some of the shipbuilding mistakes of the last 20 years?
After control of explosions in 2021 to prove it could withstand combat, the Ford got closer to deployment, six years late, and billions of dollars over budget.
Our maintenance backlog is one of the primary things that I'm working on to correct. So, just three years ago, we had 7,700 delay days, that is extra days in a shipyard by ships when they were an operational.
But the GAO reports that it is already a quarter of a billion dollars over budget and three years behind schedule.