I find it amazing so many people live aboard aircraft carriers! Does it take that many people to run the ship? Even submarines have a lot of personnel on board, considering the size of the vessel. Is it so that if a certain number of people were killed or injured there would enough to carry on ship operation?
2006-07-27 10:10:15 · 16 answers · asked by motor maniac 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
A) Ships always have reserve personnel on board to cover for any sudden shortage - and there are always three shifts so that things can run 24/7.
B) Aircraft carriers are not merely seaborne platforms for landing planes - they are floating cities. Think about it - a ship at sea needs to be completely self-sufficient. There are crews onboard to desalinate the water coming onto the ship and crews to clean the water leaving the ship. There are crews to run the generators to power the ship and crews to run the reactors to power the engines and crews to run the steam engines that power the catapults. There are galley crews to make the food and galley crews to clean the dishes and galley crews that ration out the food that's onboard. There are tailors to fix uniforms and exchanges that sell sundry goods that the people onboard might need. And that's even before we start talking about the people who run the bridge and the people in the engine rooms and the pilots and the flight crews and the airplane mechanics and the rescue chopper crews...
As you can see, the list goes on and on. The real marvel is that they manage to make the ships run with ONLY 5000 people onboard.
2006-07-27 10:25:37 · answer #1 · answered by Spoofy P. 2 · 155⤊ 9⤋
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2016-10-04 01:45:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-01-02 08:58:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Just the people on watch and the pilots carrying out flight ops. EDIT And they no longer use marines for security details on carriers, they have marine detachments on board but they are no longer used for security. EDIT While in port MA's and GM's are assigned to force protection details and also MSRON comes in to do security at said port. The weapons they carry range from M9 berretas to M249 SAWs, crew served weapons and yes master of none they do carry the M16.
2016-04-01 08:21:28 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since an aircraft carrier is literally a floating city, all sorts of job disciplines are need to provide for service when they are at sea. They are usually isolated out at sea and need to be able to run independently. It is also not just the carriers; there are a variety of support vessel within a carrier group as well. A carrier is a lot more than just pilots, flight deck crew and operations personnel.
2006-07-27 10:20:29 · answer #5 · answered by Shaula 7 · 15⤊ 2⤋
The carry marines for protection. And, no "Security threat" like that is going to happen on a carrier at sea.
2016-03-19 08:08:22 · answer #6 · answered by Deborah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think of it this way: an aircraft carrier - or any other naval vessel, for that matter - operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. On a carrier, this means that there have to be people who not only pilot the planes (round the clock, remember), but fuel them, maintain them, arm them, direct them around the flight deck, help them take off and land.
In addition, you also have the people who actually run the ship: from the galley crews (again, remember that they run 24/7) to the laundry staff, to the people who maintain the ship itself, monitor the fuel distribution (don't want to tip the ship, which several hundred thousand gallons of fuel improperly-balanced can do) and handle every other task - they even have barbershops and a US Post Office onboard!
An Aircraft carrier is a small city and a really big airport all rolled into one. It takes a lot of people to keep it running at top speed at any time of the day or night.
Same thing for a sub, a destroyer, cruisers, etc. 24/7 takes at least 3 shifts of people to cover the same duty post.
2006-07-27 10:19:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 25⤊ 4⤋
Carriers only have that many people on board when they're on deployment and are carrying an air wing, or squadron of planes and jets. They need that many people because of all the different jobs there are on a ship. There are flight operations at any hour of the day or night. There are also the seamen who have to drive the ship, and keep watch for other ships and hazards. There are people awake 24/7 on a ship. Each watch section takes turns standing watch, and there is a set watch rotation to determine who doesn't get a full night's sleep for that night....
2006-07-27 10:16:49 · answer #8 · answered by j.f. 4 · 22⤊ 4⤋
There are basically two communities on a carrier - the air wing (CAG, pilots & mechanics for a large variety of aircraft, deck crews, armorers, etc.) and the rest who run the ship (captain, Ex-O, navigators, self-defense crews, power plant engineers and mechanics, gallery cooks and crews, CIC, intelligence & signals, and hundreds of others.)
There is probably a lot of cross-training in jobs, but not for every job (I doubt many cooks are F/A-18 capable.) So a ship can have a limited operational capability if its crew were reduced by a certain percentage. Probably down to 75%, but that is a SWAG.
2006-07-27 10:22:00 · answer #9 · answered by Tom-SJ 6 · 13⤊ 5⤋
First of all an Aircraft Carrier is both an Air field and a ship. The ship requires about 1200 people to operate it and support the crew. Then realize that this is a 24/7 operation, so you need three shifts. Now comes the air component. Pilots, aircrew, maintenance crew, logistics and armament crews, about another 1000. Grand total in rough numbers, 4,600.
And yes, this redundancy maintains a level of safety.
2006-07-27 10:19:30 · answer #10 · answered by yes_its_me 7 · 26⤊ 5⤋
The flight crew works 24/7 during flight ops.............eat, sleep, shyt during brief down time...................
2015-05-02 02:49:02 · answer #11 · answered by Bill 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋