Originally Posted by
Bing
Not at all...
...but as with most navies the USN appears to work on a 3 for 1 ratio of hulls, i.e. you need 3 to have 1 at sea. So one in refit, one in work-up, and one deployed. Unless there's a ridiculous amount of slack in that system I can't see how 7 from 10 works for anything longer than about 9 months, at which point you've run the sailors, ships, and aircraft ragged.
Still easy way to find out, wait until this time next year and see how many carriers are deployed.
Hmm you made sense with the not at all.
All after that however indicated that it had.