[Knitebane]

Fascinating thread. I am trying to wrap my mind around the idea that it takes 391 sailors and 22 officers to ferry 500 marines around.

By commercial standards, Navy ships are always overmanned. That's because the Navy figures casualties and damage control ops into the manpower requirements.

[patton]

Hey Robert, check this thread out.

[patton]

Yeah, but with that staff-to-customer ratio, it ought to be a four-star hotel.