My husband and I were just wondering how much it would cost to move 12 ships in the Pacific Fleet and estimated it had to be extremely expensive.
The mundane day-to-day running of a ship costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. I do not know the operational costs for cruisers or destroyer but for Carriers I think it is something like 500,000 a day but I am not totally sure.
Any mobilization or deployment, or going to an alert status anything other than "Vacation Time!", will exponentially increase those costs.