NONE of these ships would be so expensive if they were not forced to be built by SHIP YARD BUBBAS (who by the way spend a good portion of their day drilling hole’s in female berthing to watch us change or sneaking into showers to catch one of us naked). Gotta love the Unions.
This article makes it sound like Aircraft Carriers are out in the ocean by themselves.... NOT: Carrier Strike Groups. There are subs, battleships, cruisers and Supply ships out there with them. Carriers protect the smaller ships, the smaller ships protect the carrier. Plus, CVNs are built to withstand a certain amount of Bombings as well as Nuclear War.
Teddy Roosevelt was wise on one front: Great Navy Fleets projecting power. Sailors going on port visits understand this. It is impressive to look out into a harbor from miles away and see a gigantic rusted warship sitting out in the bay. It’s a giant middle finger to bad guys and it says, “hey... our 1950s technology and 50 year old boats are still greater than anything you have. Respect us”.
The democrats want to do away with CVNs and that is what this is really about. They don’t understand them. One Indiana Democrat Congressman came on our ship during decommissioning because he couldn’t understand why it was so expensive to “removed Nuclear Reactors”. What a joke and what a Moron. CNN for months has been promoting the idea of getting rid of Aircraft Carriers. This is just one of the problems of professional politicians and a Congress that has few Veteran Members. It also conveys part of the growing divide between the warrior class and civilians.
I am a huge fan of CVs but CVNs not so much. The air detachment doesn’t care how the snipes are boiling the water. Conventional carriers are much cheaper to build and have the same operational capability as far as the air detachment goes. Crew training is much cheaper too. The Navy shot themselves in the foot demanding all carries be nuclear. They over played their hand.
“SHIP YARD BUBBAS (who by the way spend a good portion of their day drilling holes in female berthing to watch us change or sneaking into showers to catch one of us naked). Gotta love the Unions.”
Feminism, the strange concept that you can put a bunch of naked women into a metal box, and then blame unions when men try to peek at them.