I recall that during my time on aircraft carrier we used to joke about them being big grey targets and wonder where pilots thought they were going to land if the shooting got serious.
BTW ~ C19fan, I did two cruises on CVA19. Any connection?
There are 2 things in the sea.
Submarines,and targets.
I had a guy who worked for me in his first post-Navy job, who had been a reactor officer on a 688 boat.
He didn’t/couldn’t say much, but it was clear he didn’t think much of CVBG ASW. This was 20+ years ago.