"The Navy today deploys most of its ships with single crews. Thus, when a ship goes on deployment, the crew that takes it out of port is the same crew that brings it back, normally six months later. For some ships, however, the Navy employs a variety of dual-crew or multicrew concepts to increase the amount of time that those ships can spend on-station in their operating areas overseas. In some cases, such as with ballistic missile submarines, crew rotation means that two crews alternate taking a single ship out for relatively short deployments from its home port (usually for less than three months). In other cases, three or more crews successively rotate to a ship while it is deployed overseas so the ship can stay on-station for longer periods and thus provide more "forward presence." In the past few years, the Navy has experimented with the latter approach by rotating crews to large surface combatants in order to increase the amount of forward presence they provide."--Preface
Crew rotation in the Navy today -- The Navy's sea swap experiments with destroyers -- CBO's analysis of the potential effects of expanding crew rotation -- Tables -- Figures.
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Title
Crew rotation in the Navy : the long-term effect on forward presence.
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[Washington, D.C.] : Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office, [2007]
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