Should the US Navy move the fleet out of harm's way?

[Kapitan]

[quote=The WosMan]

Originally Posted by Skybird

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Only reason your showing this sort of responce is because you to ignorant to want to know the facts, pull the head out of arse and go read a few articles on SS-N-19 and SS-N-22 you will see they are about 10x more capible than anything the USN has in ASM form.

One SS-N-19 would rip a carrier apart enough to render it inoprable, and with nuclear tips well.....

The USN is in no way invincible the russian navy also is not invincible, but the americans are partly trained by the british, so what ever we have going you do too so we know roughly what you think.

[August]

Well geez, we could just disband our navy altogether. Just think of how safe our ships would be from terrorism then!

Kapitan is right. Navy ships need to be at sea and on station not tied up in some tidy little anchorage waiting for someone to come and obliterate them in one fell swoop.

Look at the Pearl Harbor attack. The only ships that were safe that day were the carriers because they were at sea.

[geetrue]

The ships at sea have a fighting chance ... I'm not worried about them. Ships in port have always been a target from Cuba "Remember the Maine" to the USS Cole in Africa.

San Diego is ground zero in any modern warfare scenerio, but a terroist can attack at will in San Diego Bay with two to three nuclear carriers already berthed there now, not to mention the rest of the third fleet.

The US Navy has finally seen the light and moved their Point Loma/Ballast Point submarine flotilla to Hawaii and Guam ... Long Beach is no longer a base, San Francisco is just a port of call leaving Seattle and Bangor, Washington as the only other major ports on the west coast besides San Diego. Those two ports are a long way from the Pacific Ocean.

They could carve a sea port out of raw land in Alaska ... where no man has ever been before ... Safely secure the area using submarines, security checks for all family members and base employees of which most would be retired civilians or even the family members themselves.

Check all food, check all supplies, air lift everybody and everything in, house everyone in comfortable quarters, stay warm and prepare for WW III

Don't wait for a terroist attack to sink a modern warfare vessel ... be prepared for one now ...

I have always had a fear of turning on the television and seeing a US Navy nuclear carrier smoldering on her side in San Diego Bay.

Don't be afraid be ready ...