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Tuesday, 02 March, 2010 
Being a bit of a ship nut, in case you hadn’t noticed, I came across this superb story that sets out yet again the inherent flexibility of Aircraft Carriers (for more detailed assessments of the value of carriers see the blog on 30th April and 6th August 2009). It is the reported reply of a US Navy Admiral to a foreign admiral on the news that the US Navy was going to send a carrier to join the rescue efforts in Haiti.
The foreign admiral asked “What are you going to do – bomb them?”
The reply from the US Admiral was:
“Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day; they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many do you have?”
I couldn’t have put it better myself, carriers are not cold war relics they are incredibly flexible platforms with a variety of uses.
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