That’s not correct, at all. Insurance is NOT a requirement in SC, though you do have to pay a ‘fine’ to the state if you choose to forego insurance. Insurance may have been state regulated back in the 80s, but rates are just fine, now. My 2016 Mustang GT costs me about $1400 a year for full coverage.

Well, welcome to NJ. Try to keep up, or you will be killed and eaten.

You mean BENNYs and Shoobies?

I don’t really need to, I’m living it. The Navy cares about the cost of its toys, big or small, and cut tremendous amounts of ‘stuff’ out of the LCS, DDG-1000, CVN(X), CG(X), etc, etc, etc. It wants things, it just can’t afford them. The bureaucracy is a bigger issue than the actual hardware, itself, and…

Please. Convince someone to send Wawa to Charleston, SC. There are plenty of folks here, just like in Florida, that would appreciate it. The convenience stores down here are straight garbage, and it’s affluent enough that you could stick one on every damn corner and still make money.

Yeah, that happens. I grew up in Neptune City, right near Asbury Park (which you did NOT acknowledge until about ten years ago, because Asbury SUCKED). Spending 11+ years in and around Philly would make anyone insane.

The Pine Barrens are definitely South Jersey. Central Jersey stretches from Trenton to Belmar, about 10 miles south of I-195, and about 20 miles north of 195. Point Pleasant is Central. Seaside is South. Toms River is South. Hell, Brick is South. Hazlet is Central, yet Edison is North. New Brunswick is Central.

That’s the fucking truth. I live in Charleston, and it’s terrible here. People crash into everything, and for no damn reason. They drive slow, hog the left lane, wait until the last damn second to merge or move from the left lane to exit, and just generally suck. But they’re very nice.

1 - There are Wawas in Central Jersey.

I used to live in Cherry Hill, and went to college at Drexel, and never went to the damn thing. I’ve been to the USS North Carolina, USS Missouri, USS Yorktown, and a half dozen other ships, but never my state’s namesake, which was a 15 minute drive.

This is the government, you’re talking about. Nothing changes easily, programs take a lot of political will and time to kill, and frankly, they don’t know what they want, ever.

Because funding for long-lead items is approved and spent YEARS before the end-item articles are actually available for use. When you’ve spent untold billions of dollars (BTW, the Ford was awarded in 2008, before President Obama took office, and the F-35 Low Rate Initial Production award was made back in ~2006), you…

As someone currently dealing with Navy procurement in a post-Bush White House world, you’re 100% wrong.

As I said to someone else, to design and procure a new BBG class, which would likely be capped at somewhere between 4 and 6 ships, they’d be horrendously expensive to procure. DDG-1000 ships, even at a full ship class buy, would cost $4b. Procuring a bigger, heavier, more capable ship, with hundreds of more…

No, but DDG-1000, even if it were a full ship class, would have cost $4b for a ship that would be a third of the gross tonnage of a modern BBG. The cost of a BBG would be damn near what a new Ford-class CVN cost! Sure, you could probably get away with the ~400 sailors on a Burke-class DDG, but you’d still spent four…

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With what power?

How cheap is it for DDG-1000 to lob shells? Each of the LRLAP shells for the AGS cost $800,000 because the Navy killed the ship class, then the Navy decided to stop buying them after the 200 or so that were purchased for DDG-1000 DT&OE. A Tomahawk costs $1.4m and is WAAAAYYY more capable.

FINALLY!

Well, no, but I did go to a military high school, learned Naval Science from former Navy Commanders and Captains, and have been supporting the Navy for twelve years. I do read military history books, so I am fairly informed about both current and historical events.