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BTW deployment wise? We are supposed to headed into a one carrier deployed policy which is insanity. Any ship to stay ready both training and maintenance wise needs sufficient time at sea. Worse still sometime in the 1980’s there was added to NOB Norfolk another pier with a two carrier capacity making Norfolk Naval Base capable of having five carriers in port at the same time at the exact same place. Put five there, one in Newport News in overhaul, one or two up at Portsmouth at Norfolk Naval Shipyard and it's another Pearl Harbor in the making.

The entire Atlantic Carrier Fleet is now home ported in the same city and must cross the same tunnels. They are also about a mile or two downstream of the International Piers. IOW we have planners who are fools. My guess is Norfolk was expanded because at that time it was likely assumed the carrier fleet would be expanded by two or more carriers. That didn't happen. The USSR break up changed things but not anywhere near enough IMO to justify the severity of cuts we've seen.

[libtoken]

The current picture at Norfolk:

One carrier in overhaul (based on the West Coast)

One in post-overhaul

One in maintenance

One on deployment

One post-deployed

Therefore, at most 4 carriers in the basin at once right now.

The other carriers are based on the West Coast and Japan.