Posted by DaninKansas on January 22, 2014 at 06:11:16 from (24.248.193.103):
In Reply to: Re: What the heck?? posted by Cold Beer on January 22, 2014 at 04:33:59:
How many actually are deployed? The USS Alabama hasn't fired an engine in decades and it is officially still "deployable".
How many will be deployed or even deployable in 8 years?
For all the talk about how far technology has come I remember one amazing statistic from the first Gulf War (yeah I know that was 20 years ago). It took longer to ship and deploy 600,000 soldiers to the Middle East in 1990-1991 than it took to ship and deploy 600,000 soldiers to France in 1917-1918. And in WW1 we had to draft, equip and train (such as it was) those soldiers first, in Desert Storm they redeployed active duty troops and activated reserves that were already trained and equipped.
The US can't mount a Desert Storm like offensive today, those troops are for the most part retired and RIF.
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