Originally Posted by
KenV
"7-days a week ops" for 7 straight months is absurd. I deployed twice to the Persian Gulf aboard a carrier. Conducting combat operations for 7 months straight would be impossible and attempting or expecting a carrier to do so absurd. The fact that they conducted combat operations for about half their 7 month deployment period is damn impressive.
I'm not lying, nor mistaken.
Units usually stood down 1 day per week but it was rotated so that the flying units covered those that were stood down.
So as a base, Kandahar operated 7 days a week, with only 1 or 2 detachments stood down per day, leaving all the other dets flying combat ops. Every day. Non-stop.
I wasn't asking if a carrier could conduct combat ops for 7 straight months, merely pointing out that carrying them out for less than 50% of the time was not very efficient when compared to modern land-based operations.
Sorry for any misunderstanding.