Refueling is a once in a lifetime overhaul, carriers undergo far more work over their lives than just that. Carriers have ONE crew, they do not have a blue and gold crew like boomers do. It is you that doesnt understan anything about the US Navy. The only surface ships that are getting blue/gold crews are the LCSs, and even those require coming to port on a regular basis.
Is there really a point to this discussion?
They aren't going to need an overhaul, because after they destroy our infrastructure within 24-48 hours, they can just wait and after the water and food is gone, people will quickly lose interest in a rebellion.
They don't even need to destroy the infrastructure, just send a few SF troops to take over major power plants and turn them off, and thats it, the rebellion is over.
Good luck getting 20 million people pissed off enough to live without food or water for 45-60 days and then saying "oh yeah, go ahead and pick up those arms and fight against the most effective killing machine in the history of human kind."
FFS.
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/navyj...ments.-ur1.htm
Those selected work outside of their regular Navy job, and are deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan (usually for 12 months) to assist the Army and Marine Corps with combat missions and patrols.
Funny thing, I was stationed on the USS Lincoln, CVN-72. I'm pretty sure I would remember if another crew swapped out with mine. Carriers have ONE crew. The US Navy does not have the manpower to provide multiple crews to carriers and airwings.
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Destroying the infrastructure only works if you are talking about a civil war with easily defined geographical splits. Else its a good way to make the general populace hate you.
Oh dear god man.... You have ZERO clue about just how much other stuff is on a carrier that breaks, wears out, etc. Yes the hull can steam for years, but it can't FIGHT for that long. The airwing can't last that long either, as as we have few airwings than carriers....
The really funny thing is the paragraph in that article right above the one talking about deploying to Iraq says this: "The ships and subs also spend a significant amount of time docked at their home port. Most ships deploy to sea duty for months at a time (usually for six months, but up to nine months). Then they return to their home port for four or five months (during which time there will be several one or two week cruises for training purposes)."
Check-mate, using your own article.
Gun control is useless if people are culturally violent.