New Coronado Speed Festival Has In Conclusion Run Out Of Gas, In Addition To Tossed The Towel Onto The Track. It's Over, Simply It Had A Damn Skillful Run. The Organization That Ran The Fleet Calendar Week Effect Is Instead Going To Focus On A Golf Game Tournament. No, That's Non A Joke. It's Stupid.
Larry Blumberg, retired exec manager of the nonprofit San Diego Military Advisory Council was of late hired (for a dollar a year, really cool) to live the exec manager of the San Diego Fleet Week Foundation, confirmed that revenue shortfalls pushed the foundation to the brink of insolvency.
He said Fleet Week volition refocus on core events including a luncheon too golf tournament to accolade enlisted service members, to salute Navy, Marine Corps too Coast Guard units inwards the region, too an expanded showcase of local scientific discipline too applied scientific discipline breakthroughs (reciprocity to the major monetary sponsors Lockheed Martin too Northrup Grumman, who of course, facial expression no observe of this to comport upon getting military machine contracts) too a Sea too Air Parade of warships too planes across San Diego Bay (waste of revenue enhancement dollar to burn upward the diesel fuel engines too pollute) (honestly, subs are nuke powered, too don't pollute, but no i e'er sees them parade through)
I did 10 years inwards the Navy, too the uselessness of golf game every bit a agency to "honor enlisted service members" is quite probable the most self serving scam I've e'er heard of. Any wonder the SDFWF went bankrupt?
Enlisted rarely golf. Officers rarely don't. The pentagon has 234 golf game courses, too won't state what sum of millions of dollars that wastes of the military machine budget (60% of the USA govt budget) http://www.salon.com/2012/12/12/7_absurd_ways_the_military_wastes_taxpayer_dollars/ #5
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/pentagon-military-golf-courses-map says that a golf game course of study typically costs a one-half 1000000 a twelvemonth to maintain. Instead of paying enlisted better, their senior enlisted supervisors accept the lawns mowed too watered.
CORE EVENT? Golf? Seriously?
Want a fact on the Fleetweek Enlisted Golf Tournament? At most, 256 people play golf game inwards the tournament. 64 teams, of iv people.
https://www.fleetweeksandiego.org/events/fleet-week-enlisted-golf-tournament/
How many people attended the Speedfest? betwixt twenty too 25 thousand:
According to the Union-Tribune, the festival attracted 20,000 to 25,000 people annually, well-nigh one-half of whom were military machine members too families, who got inwards for free. https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/01/26/citing-expenses-coronado-speed-festival-calls-it-quits/
Just final year, the Pelican Bay Golf Course at Florida's Tyndall Air Force Base near downwardly later on running a $270,000 average annual deficit since 2006.
Yes I'm certain many of the to a greater extent than highest ranked enlisted play golf, but you're similar a shot talking white collar, too they are past times far the little minority of enlisted vs the bluish neckband bulk of all the military machine enlisted. It's a pyramid of ranked enlisted, too damn few at the piece of job past times fifty-fifty if the iv enlisted guys running the Army, Navy, Air Force too Marines enlisted (sgt major, original principal lilliputian officeholder of the Navy, etc etc ) brand a 100% of them golfing, that is iv guys, vs the 1.13 1000000 military machine members... which perchance 10% golf, but they all drive, too seriously, how many enlisted women produce YOU intend golf?
So who is the golf game tournament actually for? The people that run the SDFWF is my guess, too their sponsors' CEOs too COOs that require about glad handing to crush about donations into the nonprofit foundations budget. Golfing is the method past times which rich people connect amongst other rich people, to larn richer past times going into concern meetings on the expense account, too bolster careers past times hanging amongst the boss, or contractors, etc.
In 1975, Wisconsin Sen. William Proxmire called out the Pentagon for spending $14 1000000 a twelvemonth to hold 300 courses. (adjust for inflation too add together a zilch per decade... 1.4 billion inwards 2017 dollars) Today, the most unremarkably reported seat out of courses is 234, but a thorough search turned upward 194.
And yous tin forcefulness out equate useless branches having the most fourth dimension off to golf, amongst the # of golf game courses they have. The Air Force leads the way, the Marines accept the fewest. See? The less they do, the to a greater extent than their leaders golf. The to a greater extent than they do, the less they golf. Ergo, useless people golf.
Air Force: 60
Army: 46
Navy: 28
Marines: 11
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/01/26/citing-expenses-coronado-speed-festival-calls-it-quits/
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/sd-me-fleet-week-20161231-story.html
http://www.golfvacationinsider.com/cr/military-golf-courses-13900#
Take about other facial expression at those photos... which seems to live to a greater extent than active? The races? Or that golf game course of study on Hawaii?
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