04-20-2020, 05:08 PM
(04-20-2020, 11:16 AM)David Horn Wrote:(04-19-2020, 02:08 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: I think we have a pretty good idea. All militaries are very heavy in younger age groups, where Covid-19 is no more severe than the flu, and for the youngest, less severe. The Chinese military is operating just as it would in a bad flu year. It's only the US military that's overreacting by needlessly taking aircraft carriers offline.
Really? We have an enormous navy, and bringing another CVN in to replace the TR should be easy. Replacing crew who are sick (one dead so far) would be harder by far. What happens when sailors make the rational judgement that they are expendable, even in peacetime?
We replace crews every few years for each carrier, while the carriers themselves last for decades. Replacing crews is far easier than replacing aircraft carriers.
If the sailors realize they are expendable even in peacetime, we finally get rid of the ones who see their jobs as sinecures, and get to replace them with people who understand they are risking their lives to serve their country - yes, even in peacetime. For the Navy, especially, very few of its jobs are exclusively wartime jobs, and it's about time the fair weather sailors who don't realize that get replaced.
