We did almost go to the Indian Ocean in 1979 though when the hostage crisis started. The ships went on alert for about 12 hours. As a matter of fact they took the brow down. We were a few days away from going from the base upstream to the shipyards for a year when the hostages were taken. It took about 12 hours for the Pentagon to decide which carrier was going. I think the JFK drew the short straw and we went into overhaul. It would have meant a trip around the Horn to get there too.
Cool, thanks for the info and thanks for serving Sir.
Don’t you the Cape of Good Hope not Cape Horn?
Horn is South America Good Hope is Africa. Going to Asia it would be faster to go around Africa than cross the whole Pacific.