USCGC Sassafras. I was wrong. It was decommissioned after Fifty Nine years of service;what ship was it?
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USCGC Sassafras. I was wrong. It was decommissioned after Fifty Nine years of service;what ship was it?
USCGC Sassafras. I was wrong. It was decommissioned after Fifty Nine years of service;
USCGC Sassafras - Wikipedia
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They were basically job creators for the defense industry. Their quality and/or utility were secondary considerations.
The original plan was to build 5 of each class (Freedom and Independence) and send them through the test phase, then decide which one we wanted to build 45 more of....but they were cash cows for regions that weren't doing well (Marietta WS and Pascagoula MS).
I did the acceptance trials on the first two of each class, the only thing they did well was go fast and stop fast, they were extremely agile for their size...but neither class is a warship.
Could they deliver MREs and bottled water in humanitarian relief efforts? Yes, but we already have ships that can do that mission much better with larger capacity for the mission.
Their success model was that you needed, essentially, 60 Sailors of the year running those ships, generally people who are very talented and very versatile, but the Navy just doesn't have that many of the caliber folks it would take to man 50 of those ships. Talent pool was not deep enough to make it work.
USCGC Sassafras. I was wrong. It was decommissioned after Fifty Nine years of service;
USCGC Sassafras - Wikipedia
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The concept was that there would be a "base crew" that operated the ship and then there would be "fly away teams" that specialized in the missions. So, the mission modules would be populated with the required equipment/weapons systems and the specialty operators would come onboard to run the equipment for that mission.The only thing that makes sense is the smaller crew size but that would depend on the mission of the ship.
no that would be the 'Sea Turd' class carriers (aka Ford class).Those have to be the biggest blunder ever by the Navy.