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dreadgeek · 11-04-2010, 05:42 PM

So I did some more research into this matter. If you believe this story has any legs at all Jess, then what you believe is this:

1) That the United States government is going to somehow figure out how to spend $200 million every 24 hours when a full-blown war, with tens of thousands of troops in an active combat zone, can't *quite* get to that figure per day.

2) That the United States Navy is going to task 10% of its ENTIRE fleet to provide off-shore security for a 48 hour visit. What that means is that 3-THREE!--carrier battle groups (30 ships) will be tasked to this The 7th fleet total is about 80 ships. Why on EARTH would they need three carrier battle groups to handle this task?

(To give you a sense of perspective, a carrier battle group is the carrier and between 9 and 11 additional ships depending upon the mission profile. A carrier battle group can pretty much control an area of between 100 to 200 miles surrounding the fleet. By control, I mean near *total* control of the seas and air around it. By total control I mean just that. NOTHING that is mechanical flies within 200 miles of a carrier battle group unless the CAG (commander air group) suffers it to do so. What's more, nothing larger than a dinghy sails the seas within 200 miles of a carrier battle group unless the group commander suffers it to be so. What that means is that the commander of the CBG centered on the Washington could shut down Indian aviation at the time and place of their choosing and there is not a damn thing the Indian government could do to stop it. That's ONE battle group.)

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dreadgeek Power Femme How Do You Identify?: Cinnamon spiced, caramel colored, power-femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Married to a wonderful horse girl Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Lat: 45.60 Lon: -122.60 Posts: 1,733 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,132 Thanked 6,844 Times in 1,493 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	So I did some more research into this matter. If you believe this story has any legs at all Jess, then what you believe is this: 1) That the United States government is going to somehow figure out how to spend $200 million every 24 hours when a full-blown war, with tens of thousands of troops in an active combat zone, can't quite get to that figure per day. 2) That the United States Navy is going to task 10% of its ENTIRE fleet to provide off-shore security for a 48 hour visit. What that means is that 3-THREE!--carrier battle groups (30 ships) will be tasked to this The 7th fleet total is about 80 ships. Why on EARTH would they need three carrier battle groups to handle this task? (To give you a sense of perspective, a carrier battle group is the carrier and between 9 and 11 additional ships depending upon the mission profile. A carrier battle group can pretty much control an area of between 100 to 200 miles surrounding the fleet. By control, I mean near total control of the seas and air around it. By total control I mean just that. NOTHING that is mechanical flies within 200 miles of a carrier battle group unless the CAG (commander air group) suffers it to do so. What's more, nothing larger than a dinghy sails the seas within 200 miles of a carrier battle group unless the group commander suffers it to be so. What that means is that the commander of the CBG centered on the Washington could shut down Indian aviation at the time and place of their choosing and there is not a damn thing the Indian government could do to stop it. That's ONE battle group.) __________________ Proud member of the reality-based community. "People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn’t measure up." (Terry Pratchett)