Posted on 04/20/2015 12:39:58 PM PDT by elhombrelibre
"In Europe, the Roosevelt will work with partner nations, conducting maritime security operations and making port visits."
Is it carrying $50 billion in cash for Iran?
Is this kind of crew swapping normal?
Almost sounds as if someone wants crews on ships they aren’t familiar with.
Is this a valid concern, or do others see it that way?
>> Is this a valid concern, or do others see it that way?
I’ve long been prayerfully concerned for ALL of our military men and women under the leadership of the evil that is Barack Obama and his administration.
Wow, the Navy’s really taking the whole sea-swap thing to an extreme with this, isn’t it?
Sounds like Reagan goes to Japan, swaps crews with the Washington. The Reagan crew (now on Washington) then takes over the Roosevelt when it comes into San Diego, and then the Roosevelt crew takes Washington around South America to refueling in Newport News VA.
Should be interesting, given that there are differences between the ships. Altho all “Nimitz” class the Roosevelt is lumped into a subclass with Nimitz, Ike and Vinson, while Washington is in a subclass with Lincoln and Reagan in yet another subclass with Bush. The product of the 10 members of the class having been built over a span of 40 years.
My biggest fear is he will let our military get set up for a huge defeat.
Perhaps a Navy guy can check-in with the details but how do they avoid ship and career qualifications requirements when doing these crew changes plus fleet assignment changes?
“Make ready the yellow dye!”
(From the CinC, not the captain.)
It’s done a bit. Last big one was swapping out the Bonhomme Richard for Essex as the forward deployed LHD in Japan. Couple years back, I think.
Used to happen quite a bit with the old Sprucans as they were being retired.
Never with CVNs tho. But the costs of moving families between coasts and overseas is probably a lot more expensive than retraining on particular ship differences.
I share that sentiment.
I know this is an incredibly diabolical thought, but do you ever wonder “exactly what” they discussed at the U. S. Iranian negotiations?
Anything out of the normal perks my ears up these days.
Basically the ship changes hands. All the personnel stuff stays the same. I assume that the Roosevelt crew (the one based in Norfolk) will be pretty much split three ways when they bring Washington to Newport News, some will stay on Washington, others will go to Lincoln (coming out of refueling and back into active service) and some will go to Ford (entering service). To a lesser degree some of the crew will go to other assignments in the Norfolk area.
This is kinda what happens when a carrier goes into refueling anyways. The contractor (Newport News) has the ship for little over three years and a big part of the crew gets dispersed to other assignments.
The Navy says that the Vinson was relieved by the Big Stick last week.
http://www.gonavy.jp/CVLocation.html
No, it is not normal at all. Usually a crew stays with their ship wherever she goes.
Awful lot of information on deployment in this article. What happened to ‘loose lips sink ships’?
OK, thanks...BTW, that was supposed to be “carrier”, not “career.” Hate when I do that...
Depends on the costs involved with moving dependents.
There are 3200 sailors (ships company, not airwing) deployed to Japan on Washingon. Another 3200 in Norfolk on Roosevelt and yet another 3200 on Reagan in San Diego.
Keeping the crews with their ships would entail moving those 9600 sailors’ households to the ships’ new homeports. Iow logistically difficult and prohibitively expensive.
Why does this have all the markings of Obama appearing to get tough on Iran to show that we are still against them even though we are giving them nukes.
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