"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?
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.
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.)
The Navy says that the Vinson was relieved by the Big Stick last week.
http://www.gonavy.jp/CVLocation.html
Awful lot of information on deployment in this article. What happened to ‘loose lips sink ships’?