a tiny start ...

 

   https://www.militarytimes.com/breaking-news/2025/05/05/hegseth-directs-20-cut-to-top-military-leadership-positions/

20% isn't near enough.  50% at a minimum - and eliminate the entire parasite "SES" class. 

In the Navy alone we have three times the number of senior 'leaders' attempting to manage a force one thirteenth the size of the Navy that successfully fought a global war.  

https://nexttobagend.blogspot.com/2020/08/death-by-bloat.html

Where's Elon's chainsaw? 

And - while we're at it - is there anything less relevant to our future security than silo based missiles???  OK, Battleships, maybe ...

https://breakingdefense.com/2025/05/air-force-now-expects-sentinel-icbms-will-predominantly-need-new-silos 

UPDATE: 5/9/25 Truman's lost a third F-18 ...   I'm suspecting the same rot that is debilitating Newark's airport will be in evidence as facts are revealed.

Big picture, the aircraft carrier and it's battle group is becoming ever more irrelevant to a country no longer willing to be the beat cop for the Bush globalist  'rule based world order'.   Hopefully we've built our last CV and will retire them all quickly.