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U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer (C) testifies during a hearing on recent U.S. Navy incidents before Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol in Washington D.C. Cheap Gareon Conley Jersey , the United States, Sept. 19, 2017. Top leaders of the U.S. Navy were urged to do better on Tuesday as they appeared before the Senate hearing over a series of deadly ship collisions involving the Pacific fleet. (XinhuaYin Bogu)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Top leaders of the U.S. Navy were urged to do better on Tuesday as they appeared before a Senate hearing over a series of deadly ship collisions involving the Pacific fleet.


"We must also call you to task and demand answers. As leaders of our Navy, you must do better," Senator John McCain Cheap Johnny Townsend Jersey , head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told Navy Secretary Richard Spencer and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson.


The hearing was held in the wake of several Navy ship collisions, including one in August in which USS John S. McCain, a guided-missile destroyer, collided with an oil and chemical tanker near Singapore, leaving 10 U.S. sailors dead and five injured.


The highly-publicized incident came after seven sailors were killed when the USS Fitzgerald Cheap P.J. Hall Jersey , also a guided-missile destroyer, and a container ship collided off the coast of Japan in June, along with two other non-deadly collisions involving the Navy vessels also this year.


McCain said those incidents are "preventable" but now it will cost an estimate of 600 million U.S. dollars for repairs.


"It is simply unacceptable for U.S. Navy ships to run aground or collide with other ships," the Republican senator said. "To have four such incidents in the span of seven months is truly alarming."


Richardson told the hearing that the Navy was conducting reviews and probes, while blaming the incidents on "the corrosive confluence of high operational tempo, inadequate budgets and budget uncertainty."


"But make no mistake Cheap Kolton Miller Jersey , sir, while these factors do exert a negative force on the challenges we face, at the core, this issue is about leadership, especially command," Richardson said.


Two senior Navy commanders were relieved of duty Monday by Vice Admiral Phil Sawyer Cheap Reggie Nelson Jersey , the commander of the Japan-based Seventh Fleet, bringing the total number of fired commanders to six, including the top three officers of the Fitzgerald.


The U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report early this month that the Navy has "increased deployment lengths, shortened training periods, and reduced or deferred maintenance to meet high operational demands, which has resulted in declining ship conditions and a worsening trend in overall readiness."


The report said the crew are being overworked and undertrained but some vital maintenance is not being completed on time.


Spencer stressed that Congress has added training and other requirements to the Navy over time. "No one is taking a rock out and the rucksack is getting pretty damn heavy Cheap Derek Carr Jersey ," he said.


Fatal training accidents have taken the lives of four times more service members than real combat has over the last three years, McCain said as he noted Congress' responsibility.


"Years of budget cuts, continuing resolutions and sequestration have forced our military to maintain a high operational tempo with limited resources," he argued.


U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Monday he was reviewing if there was link between recent military accidents and budget caps.


"I am not willing to say right now that there is a direct line between sequestration and what has happened. I am willing to say we are going to take a very close look at that," he told reporters.




THE HAGUE, May 15 (Xinhua) -- The Dutch government has put forward multiple plans and strategies on cyber security Cheap Jared Cook Jersey , but often without allocating the necessary resources, deplored Dutch media on Monday quoting the conclusion of a study conducted by the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies based in the United States.


The Netherlands spends less than 0.01 percent of its GDP (gross domestic product) on cyber security, considerably less (as a portion of national GDP) than other developed countries like the United States, Britain, Australia, Germany and France Oakland Raiders Jerseys For Sale , said the report.


Many organizations in both the public and private sectors are still struggling with how to replace complex and outdated legacy systems and many other organizations sill lack a sufficiently qualified cyber security workforce to tackle cyber threats.


Moreover, there are at least 20 bodies with individual and collective responsibilities for enhancing cyber security posture of the Netherlands, but no one agency has overarching authorities to ensure the national cyber security architecture is achieved, added the report.


The study on the Netherlands' national-level preparedness for cyber risks was commissioned by the Dutch government's National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV in Dutch). The report was released earlier on Monday in Washington. Patricia Zorko, NCTV's deputy coordinator and director of the Dutch National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) will present it on Tuesday.


The study published online stated that the Dutch government has set up a comprehensive national cyber security strategy in 2011 and updated it in 2013. It has developed a strong national cyber security architecture with military and intelligence services contributing to a whole-of-nation cyber defense. The Netherlands has also made provocative efforts to shape cyber policy discussions in multiple international fora.


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