Without giving too much in the way of detail, can anyone generalize about how much time it takes to get a carrier battle group deployed that far ahead of schedule?
Just curious how long ago this decision would have to have been made and communicated out in order to get everyone back aboard, get everything loaded, etc. I assume there was planned maintenance that would now be deferred too.
I’m under the assumption that these ships weren’t just sitting around idly by four months early.
The most likely war scenarios are planned and wargamed early on. The scenario, "Israel strikes Iran" is probably the one updated the most. We most likely do not know the timing but prudent military planning requires having the assets the plan says are needed deployed ahead of action and that is what we may be seeing.
“-—how much time “? Unless a ship is disabled for major work there is always a minimal operating crew available. If it is really REALLY important it’s a matter of pulling the gangplank and throwing off the lines. The dock tugs are never more than a couple minutes away. And it’s a nuke in this case so fuel is not an issue-—just start pulling rods. If industrial work is being done the yardbirds and their tools go along to the next stop and/or finish their work. Our fast ( Lewis and Clark) supply ships will catch up with them with groceries, jet fuel, movies and the ten thousand other consumables they normally use. Any sailors missing will catch up by air.————————————————————————————It’s a bit expensive to do it this way but if it’s IMPORTANT it will get done in minutes, not hours. Then visualize 100,000 tons of American Steel heading out at water skiing speed to the next clusterflock——it’s impressive as hell and remember this: no other country on earth can even come close and we can do it 12 times in a row.