The official overseas military cost report omits Navy vessel costs.

Evidence

In a way, it’s strange, given the name of the Overseas Cost Summary, that it excludes (at Congress’s instruction) the costs of maintaining naval vessels overseas. After all, Navy and Marine Corps vessels are essentially floating and submersible bases used to maintain a powerful military presence across the planet’s waters. About 3.5 percent of Navy and Marine Corps personnel are afloat outside U.S. waters at a given time, so given total Navy and Marine Corps personnel and operations and maintenance costs of 108 billion, an estimate based just on that personnel percentage adds another 3.8 billion to the overseas budget. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 618

Categorization

• XREF: Continues the accounting-critique thread central to how the book tabulates the true cost of the base network. — connects to: The Pentagon cost report omits overseas troop health care. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 622; Combatant command overseas operations funding is omitted from official cost reports. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 632; Official overseas military cost reports omit hundreds of millions in allied spending — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 635 (+9 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Pentagon cost report omits overseas troop health care. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 622; Combatant command overseas operations funding is omitted from official cost reports. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 632; Official overseas military cost reports omit hundreds of millions in allied spending — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 635 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Naval vessels function as floating bases excluded from overseas cost tallies. #exemplifies (0.93)