TBH you only have to search an area immediately in front of whichever ship you are escorting .........................
and I really don't feel that pre-positioning 4 small, very slow mine hunters in an area where someone is talking about sowing mines is anything other than common sense - the damn things will take months to get there if the balloon does go up - you might as well base them in Oman or Bahrain as at Hawaii
Last edited by Heathrow Harry; 14th July 2012 at 16:56.