" really should have done this on the other thread, but lets also "fact check" the nonsense here."
It is not nonsense that a very large sum of money was spent on what is, TBH, a niche capability that has little relevance to modern warfare. The carriers were /are a Blair-Brown vanity product.
All that money, the port infrastructure and the training and the crews could have been spent on reinforcing/replacing the surface fleet (which is now microscopic) and even buying another SSN. To deny that the Carrier purchase has not affected the rest of the navy is just defies belief.