Shall we relieve them as well?
“Shall we relieve them as well?“
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Can’t do it in mass. Replacing over 4,000 highly skilled and specialized sailors would take awhile....
A judgment has to be made about the ship’s readiness. If it were me, I’d require some sea trials before sending it back on the line. At a minimum it should outchop from 7th Fleet back to 3rd Fleet and return to home port or at least to Pearl Harbor to go through re-certification.
The protocol would be to deem the ship as not mission ready, return it to a suitable port. Then begin the process of transferring the unsuitables off, and of re-certifying those who remain, as well as replacement crew. I’d request volunteers from the next CV in the deployment pipeline.