Free Up Ships for More Important Duties
6th January 2024
We constantly hear the justification, [it (whatever it is)] will free up [something else] for other, more important duties. For example, the LCS will free up Burkes for more important duties. Or, the Constellation will free up Burkes for more important duties. That sounds fine on paper but, in reality, it’s just buzzword garbage. What are these other ‘more important duties’? I’m looking around and I don’t see Burkes conducting other ‘more important duties’, do you?
We have 86 Burkes/Ticos. Are they really all tied up on unimportant duties and need freeing up? Are there really ‘more important duties’ that are going unattended because Burkes are being wasted on less important duties? Most of our Burkes sit pier side most of the year. Are we really short of Burkes for ‘more important duties’?
Many use this justification to promote smaller carriers; if we had smaller carriers we could free up the supercarriers for ‘more important duties’. Again, what are these ‘more important duties’ that our carriers are currently foregoing in favor of less important duties? Remember, we have 11 carriers and most of the time only one or two are deployed. Do we really lack sufficient carriers for ‘more important duties’?