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Posted: 5/23/2017 7:54:13 PM EDT

Please explain.

Posted: 5/23/2017 7:55:17 PM EDT

[#1]

There is alot of shit to do.

Posted: 5/23/2017 7:55:39 PM EDT

[#2]

$$$$

Posted: 5/23/2017 7:56:00 PM EDT

[#3]

FPNI

Posted: 5/23/2017 7:56:05 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/23/2017 7:56:17 PM EDT

[#5]

How does posi traction work? Nobody knows It just does.

Posted: 5/23/2017 7:56:28 PM EDT

[#6]

Same reason a yacht needs a crew. Everyone has a job to do.

Posted: 5/23/2017 7:56:32 PM EDT

[#7]

They operate 90+ aircraft 24/7/265. Now image running an airport that moves, all day, all night. And it can shoot it's own weapons, feed it's own people, and run it's own hospital and dental clinics...

Posted: 5/23/2017 7:56:37 PM EDT

[#8]

It's not going to paint itself.

Posted: 5/23/2017 7:56:45 PM EDT

[#9]

Is it only open 9-5 or is it a 24 hour 7 days a week operation ? There lies your answer

Posted: 5/23/2017 7:56:50 PM EDT

[#10]

Big friggin boat with a shit load of airplanes that break all the time.

Posted: 5/23/2017 7:57:33 PM EDT

[#11]

Take every job that needs to be done and multiply by 3 to 4 in order to have 24/7 shifts for 6 months at a time.

USS Kitty Hawk CV63 94-97

Posted: 5/23/2017 7:57:38 PM EDT

[#12]

Do they buff the hallways in the Navy?

Posted: 5/23/2017 7:57:52 PM EDT

[#13]

4,000 chiefs, 1,000 Indians.

Posted: 5/23/2017 7:58:13 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/23/2017 7:58:21 PM EDT

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They operate 90+ aircraft 24/7/265. Now image running an airport that moves, all day, all night. And it can shoot it's own weapons, feed it's own people, and run it's own hospital and dental clinics...

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I thought they were carrying a lot less than that lately.

Posted: 5/23/2017 7:58:47 PM EDT

[#16]

lol

Posted: 5/23/2017 7:59:58 PM EDT

[#17]

they can't work 24/7

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:00:09 PM EDT

[#18]

Well....

If you took a regular ship, a combat ready ship, a medium sized airport, a nuclear power plant, a machine/welding/fab shop, a small municipal public utility, plus the contractors to work on/fix all of the above... how many people do you think you would have?

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:00:20 PM EDT

[#19]

Pretty soon the galleys will have those self-serve kiosks so there is that.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:00:36 PM EDT

[#20]

Spares.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:00:41 PM EDT

[#21]

Just in case the reactor burns out...

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:00:48 PM EDT

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There are no fucking hallways in the Navy only passageways and yes you buff them!

There are no ceilings, floors, stairs or walls either. There are however overheads, decks, ladders and bulkheads.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:00:52 PM EDT

[#23]

Dude have you ever been on an aircraft carrier? It's like a freaking city. Like a man made island full of fighter jets and weapons and stuff.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:02:15 PM EDT

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Some of them are operating the boat. Others are maintaining the boat. Others are operating the mini airport on top. Folks flying the planes Then, there's people maintaining the airplanes and weapons. Then, you have support people who support everyone operating and maintaining stuff, like cooks, chaplains, doctors, nurses, cops, firemen, cashiers of stores. Its a little city.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:03:55 PM EDT

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Speak for yourself..I do know exactly how it works..and have actually rebuilt more then I want to admit too....

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:05:25 PM EDT

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I like this post.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:06:54 PM EDT

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If water is slick and the hull of a ship is slick, how does the ship move?

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:07:22 PM EDT

[#28]

My question is do they get large norovirus outbreaks like cruise ships, and how does that effect their readiness?

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:07:51 PM EDT

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Gravity. Next question?

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:08:03 PM EDT

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Just wait until you pull into a liberty port next to one and every cold beer and local girl in a 6-mile radius is already spoken for.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:08:31 PM EDT

[#31]

Big Air Wing operating on a big ship that never shuts down.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:10:38 PM EDT

[#32]

Airplanes and ships aren't like your daily driver. They require a ton of maintence.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:11:25 PM EDT

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My question is do they get large norovirus outbreaks like cruise ships, and how does that effect their readiness?

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They have VD meds for the doctors to prescribe to sailors who are commanded not to hire local prostitutes. I'm pretty sure they have a plan B for viral outbreaks.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:11:40 PM EDT

[#34]

Damage control. Honestly you could run a carrier with less than 4k, if it never got shot at. The extra 1k decently trained bodies is absolutely crucial when things go tango uniform though. US Navy damage control is easily the best in the world, and probably kept us in the fight until 1943 when new ships came out of the shipyards. It literally was the reason we won Midway.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:13:30 PM EDT

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Of that 5000 or so about half are Air wing people. If the carrier doesn't have the air wing embarked the crew is about half that.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:13:48 PM EDT

[#36]

Well

You gotta cover the pregnant chicks getting yanked out of the crew...

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:16:38 PM EDT

[#37]

Engineering, please report to the bridge..

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:17:01 PM EDT

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This.

Same for Submarines.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:17:12 PM EDT

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Some of them are operating the boat. Others are maintaining the boat. Others are operating the mini airport on top. Folks flying the planes Then, there's people maintaining the airplanes and weapons. Then, you have support people who support everyone operating and maintaining stuff, like cooks, chaplains, doctors, nurses, cops, firemen, cashiers of stores. Its a little city.

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Not to mention people navigating the aircraft carrier.

Add an Intelligence center, an aircraft control tower, a communications center, electrical and electronic repair center, hull integrity maintenance and repair, damage control and firefighting centers all over the ship, central hospital and dental center for the entire battle group, bombs, missiles, and bullets storage, assembly, and control, a full detachment of US Marines for security and emergencies, a massive engineering, repair, and propulsion division, a supply chain management and human resources departments...
I could go on and on.
It takes a lot of amazing people, brains, and talent to run an aircraft carrier.
USS Ranger CV-61, 1983-1987.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:19:18 PM EDT

[#40]

In my opinion it only needs two guys. The captain and a guy with an M4 to run everything else.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:20:52 PM EDT

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it's complicated....

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:23:57 PM EDT

[#42]

Because everything they could possibly need needs to be taken care of on the ship. Out in the middle of the ocean, absolutely every single thing and service that you could ever possibly need has to be taken out there with you. You can't just drive ten miles to the dentist. If someone on board needs surgury, and you don't have a surgeon with you, you're fucked.

It basically has to be a self-sustaining ecosystem.

You may not need thousands of people to pilot, launch, and repair aircraft. But the people who do all that stuff need food, housing, medical, dental, power, etc. And every single one of those things needs to be brought with you.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:24:58 PM EDT

[#43]

Some of them staff the bowling alley.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:25:07 PM EDT

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You gotta cover the pregnant chicks getting yanked out of the crew...

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Absolutely. I was a Corpsman on the Truman and there was one given immediately prior to any deployment: A conga line of female sailors looking to get a pregnancy test. They would get knocked up to avoid deployment, then run out and get an abortion.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:25:53 PM EDT

[#45]

Google is your friend

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:26:48 PM EDT

[#46]

There are a lot of toilets to clean.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:26:51 PM EDT

[#47]

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It makes 2500 couples?

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:27:24 PM EDT

[#48]

Somebody has to polish the tube areas and railings in the Captians Passage.

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:28:55 PM EDT

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They operate 90+ aircraft 24/7/265. Now image running an airport that moves, all day, all night. And it can shoot it's own weapons, feed it's own people, and run it's own hospital and dental clinics...

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100 days off, sweet!

Posted: 5/23/2017 8:31:09 PM EDT

[#50]

Half are there just to make the other half miserable.

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