The Navy is trying to get Congress to let it decommission the cruiser fleet. The drain on the ship repair industry was one of the arguments it tried. Congress continues to limit how many cruisers can be retired before the end of their service lives. The safety of the men and women onboard is something the Navy is trying out. The service does not want to continue to operate some of its worst-off cruisers because they are no longer safe. In times of peace, the safety of our people in the United States Navy always has to come first. He said at the conference that it would be irresponsible to continue to upgrade some of the platforms. The challenge of having to repair ships of that age has not been experienced by those who question the Navy's desire to retire these old and worn-out ships. If we tried to repair those ships at a cost that far exceeds the investment to buy something else, why would we? At some point, you have to let it go, he said. The Chief of Naval Operations spoke immediately after the conference. He told Defense News that one cruiser in the fleet had to stop for repairs because water was coming in below the water line. When water started coming in below the water line into the main engine room, another destroyer had to pause its deployment for repairs. The Vella Gulf had to return to its home port twice because of cracks in its fuel tanks. Gilday said that the Ticonderoga class of cruisers is doing little to contribute to modern warfighting needs, despite the fact that they haul around 122 vertical launching system cells each and should remain in the fight to deter potential adversaries like China. You need to see the threat to knock it down. Gilday said that SPY-1A, SP-1B are not enough given the threat we are facing. The cruisers wreak havoc on maintenance funding and the ship repair industry. Seven cruisers are in some phase of an extended service-life extension and modernization effort, which requires significant manpower at private repair yards but is also running years late and costing tens of millions of dollars a year more than the Navy budget. Gilday said that the ability to get maintenance back on track is where the cruisers need to be. Gilday said his desire to decommission these ships and invest the money in other things has been mischaracterized. He argued that he wasn't taking a perfectly good ship and trading it in for the potential of a future ship. Gilday argued that with the cruisers not contributing much to operations, not being reliable or safe, and eating into readiness funding for other ships, it's an easy decision to ditch these ships today. As a separate next decision, he said money that would otherwise pay for cruiser operations and maintenance could be reinvested into future readiness, lethality and capacity. 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