It is true that costs are being reduced...but if you look at each vessels specs you will see the crew requirements. None of them are 25. The smallest, the Littoral Combat Ships will use 100-115. The carrier crew will be reduced by maybe a thousand but will still have a compliment of 4,600. So this assertion is simply not true.
I sure hope I’m wrong.
I enjoyed every day of my twenty year career in the U.S. Navy and hope future generations can serve their country in the same manner.