Originally Posted by
Asturias56
ten from 17 is good number - I've never been a fan of the USN 33%-33%-33% idea
Now we just have to wait to see what actually happens in the Command Paper I guess
Despite quoting predictions based on it at every opportunity - usually to support some spurious argument that we should bin off the carriers in order to have more escorts, for reasons which you are never able to articulate, nor indeed what all these other escorts are supposed to do without air cover.
The one in three is not just a USN thing - it's a planning metric based on operating regimes and crewing methods from last century. It is not - and never has been - a hard and fast rule that determines actual ship availability. That depends vastly more on complementing method, branch structures, ILS and spares among other things.