Posted on 08/22/2017 11:24:02 AM PDT by nickcarraway
According to the article, it’s 20% deployment. One 7 month in 36 months. Or, if I understand it correctly, 29 months not deployed and 7 deployed over a span of 3 years. Doesn’t sound exhausting to me.
That’s the caption that came along with the photo.
“Yes, because the Navy that won at Tripoli or Midway were not exhausted at all. “
Because they are not needed to accomplish the current mission assignments.
Try a couple of weeks of 4 and 8 watchstanding at sea sometime.
“Mighty suspicious pattern there given the state of the relationship with China and North Korea!”
Just what I was thinking.
Yes.
Have you ever done a 50 mile forced march in full gear load out with no pogey-bait stops?
When I was at sea it was a rotation of 3s.
1-1-1-32.
Eight on, eight off, eight on, 32 off.
The 32 off included all training, cleaning, maintenance etc.
And that was the best possible option.
Port and Starboard (12-12) being the normal rotation...fitting training and cleaning into the 12 off.
“Doesn’t sound exhausting to me.”
Try it.
DOUBLE AMEN (IN RED)
That makes sense. We’ve never in history expected our soldiers, sailors and airmen to work as hard as today’s snowflakes have to work. Shoot, the Marines who island-hopped the Pacific 75 years ago had it easy compared to this generation.
Much bigger ship dude, you were lucky.
“Doesn’t sound exhausting to me.”
That’s for ships based in the states. They deploy on a WestPac once every three years for 7 months.
In between they are under weigh at 0600 Monday, returning 1600 Friday for about a year. And just before deployment they are out for 3-4 consecutive 2-week periods for “Sea trials”
The rest of the time they are alongside the pier doing training and maintenance with occasional trips out...every month or so for 4-5 days.
HOWEVER, for those ships that are forward deployed...like the ships mentioned in this article...they maintain a 50% at sea pace. It’s a 4 month rotation or so.
Excruciating.
Hell, do it for 70-100 days at a time! lol
>How long before Trump gets his 355 vessel Navy going? Nothing in this budget for it. Why is sequester still in place too?
Might want to ask those Antifa supporting GOP scumbags.
[ How does a Navy destroyer get hit in the rear by a tanker ]
The McCain was rammed port side - IIRC looked slightly astern of mid-ship.
AHHH!
A jarhead.
You guys get to sleep at sea, even though it’s hot bunking. The rest of the time you’re sleeping or in the chow line.
That is far from a sailors load at sea.
Try a couple of weeks of 4 and 8 watchstanding at sea sometime.
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As a Radioman on an LST I had set up 12-12 at sea and Watchstanders Liberty in port.
(Had to supply 1 RM to ship that took our ‘in port watch’ usually gave them a couple of non designated strikers)
Worked out well as ‘they’ didn’t expect anything out of us for the 12 off.
Reason I did that was lack of Qualified Morse watch standers.
“you were lucky”
Except we’d do it for 100 days at a time.
This radioman did time on an LHA.
Among other billets.
Whip it back into shape with rum and the lash. They’ve already got the other.
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