[cva66snipe]

Training when I was in was done at sea. To qualify a competent watch stander it took doing it at sea. The article isn't saying as much but they may be operating planning off VACAPES. Typically it used to take about a nine month work up of going for a smaller deployment such as NATO or South America then after about another two months you deployed for six months coming back to a three month downtime in the yards.

Even before the shorter month or six week deployment there was at minimal a month of ops off GITMO. Your ship went through Operational Readiness Evaluation, Propulsion Examination Board, Carrier quals for the air-wing, and that was in addition to the training to pass these test. Cutting down to one deployment every three years basically means this. A new crew will deploy each time. That is not wise either.

[DoughtyOne]

I’m not qualified to make the observations you have. What you’re saying makes a lot of sense. This is being passed off as being of little value change overall. That’s bogus, and it gripes me considerably to see folks here act as if this is just a minimal tweak.

We’re not going to have crews trained to the best of their abilities. We’re asking for trouble.