Gun Control & RKBA

Say it was like that but since everything has become so dam specialized, if you don't have the people qualified specifically on that gear you can't let any else run it,plus you have to have a TS/SCI clearance to run my gear and access to those spaces, you also have to take into a account for corrective maintenance on systems, have to maintain equipment for inspections, meeting training requirements, drilling, and rotating armed duty outside of normal work typically I stood 12 hours of armed watch(not all at once) we usually break it down to 4 hours watches on top of a normal 12 hour work day twice a week in home port and in ports of call because we were undermanned. On my last deployment we stood 12 on 12 off then we got a couple more qualified personnel frsh from school and bumped down to 8 on 16 off for 8mths. I was onboard the Ticonderoga Class Cruiser USS San Jacinto CG-56, she just got done with a 175 million dollar cruiser modernization, which was suppose to make it last another 20 years, then they rear ended a sub during training in October just months before their next deployment and they are in dry dock again this time in Florida and the might have to chop the entire foc'sle off and replace it to fix the damage done, the initial report was the sub surfaced within 200 yards of the ship, it was the lack of training on the part of the crew of the sub that was implicated in the cause of the accident. All i can say is thank goodness I'm not on there and I'm a sand sailor now.