[Vince Ferrer]

I think the only reason the carrier is there is to get practice.

[TalonDJ]

“I think the only reason the carrier is there is to get practice.”

Exactly. Only way to get practice is to practice. So they are doing it. Is it a shock that they aren’t practiced BEFORE? When the ship had mostly been gathering rust?

[bert]

——the carrier is there is to get practice-—

An academic exercise...... I can go with that.

I watched Tora, Tora, Tora Wednesday and the presentation of the battle within the Japanese navy over a battleship or carrier superiority. The officers nearly came to blows in spite of their white gloves

Since there is only one Russian carrier that has been shown with painful reality to be far from up to snuff, perhaps there is a similar battle within the Russian navy about carriers. What we have is worthless and we need to start all over with new up to date everything vs we don’t need carriers at all, forget a bout it.

[GreyHoundSailor]

We steamed quite close to them when they made their first Med deployment in 1996. During flight ops, most of the flight deck crew was smoking, many had shorts and no protective gear we could see, and some wore flip-flops. Wonder if all their practice has corrected that?