How can this by allowed to happen?
Don’t we have something like 15 carrier battle groups?
Obama is truly trying to destroy us before he leaves office.
Maybe at home they can help to defend the southern border, the vulnerability of which is a far bigger security threat than anything happening in the Middle East or elsewhere.
This is unbelievable!!!!!
We usually have 5 carrier groups at sea at any time...
Just as he’s leaving? I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
Clever traitor Obama-the-Moslem and “American”-impostor
also made many of the rest of the ships flammable
and others unable to protect the sailors and marines
from the Silkworms..... as he and Kerry
and the mullahs planned.
There ARE Carriers on deployment. Not all of them are at home port in the US.
But sailors need port calls. It’s axiomatic.
And a tradition going back at least 5,000 years.
And never has Israel been in greater danger.
I posted on FR right after the election that I expected to see Putin bring together the Sunni & Shiite Muslims against Israel while Obama was still in office. They just announced that Putin was negotiating peace without the USA.
Putin already has a carrier, troops, missiles..... around Israel.... The UN security council motion set the stage.
Hang onto your hat.
At the rate it’s going we will soon be able to outsource carrier operations to the ChiComs.
Trump is going to have to thoroughly clean not only a lot of departments but the Pentagon as well...I cannot believe fleet admirals would allow this to happen...
Saw this announced earlier this evening and was livid! Unreal that its true but even worse are the news channels blabbing it all over tv. Damn this administration.
Probably on purpose via Brak Ubama quality planning.
I don’t think it will happen but neither would I be surprised if Obama starts a war before he goes.
Ash Carter
The worst threats to the American people are already inside the wire.
And Iran is set to carry out Air war games...Obama just invited Iran to attack Israel with this maneuver...
Seems like more than just an accidental oversight.
Don’t be surpised if there eventually surfaced some report of a curious rash of retirements by naval surface warfare flag officers who just happen to now be working in cushy jobs for defense contractors/defense lobbyists just under the wire before the new administration is able to put a stop to the revolving door practice.
My first thought is, what does Obama know that we don’t know?
It’s almost as if he’s hoping for a 2017 Pearl Harbor.
Congress needs to step in with this guy.
At one point in the 1960's I think we once had 26 carriers active and only 3 carrier piers at NOB NORVA. The two east coast carrier yards are there as well. Re-open, upgrade, modify, Mayport as a homeport or develop another east coast homeport to place two carriers.
I think most of us by now have seen the pictures of 4 & 5 carriers at NOB NORVA. You can also see the carriers from I-64 and the Norfolk Naval Shipyards from the southern by-pass. So much for security huh?
As for how long can a nuclear vs conventional actually deploy before needed downtime in the yards? There actually is no difference except 5 years will be needed to refuel a nuke at half life. The shipyard rotations are essentially the same because non reactor core issues in the propulsion plant and the ships support equipment must still be repaired. We need to build 2-3 conventional steamers. Homeport two in the Pacific {one in Japan} and one on the east coast.
Loose lips sink ships.