Where Are Our Carriers? Increasingly, At Home.

A Nimitz class aircraft carrier carrying a full complement of aircraft.
Photo from Naval-Technology

From Center For Defense Studies:

In times of crisis, it is said, presidents immediately want to know where the Navy’s aircraft carriers are. As America’s preeminent symbols of power projection and national presence, the aircraft carriers have been at or near the center of U.S. military strategy for the past 65 years. So potent are they believed to be that Congress has legislatively mandated that a floor of twelve aircraft carriers be maintained at all times. That floor was breached in 2007, with the decommissioning of the USS John F. Kennedy, and the Navy has been operating only eleven carriers for over two years.

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My Comments: I was not aware that so many aircraft carriers are in dry dock. Poor planning. lack of money .... I am sure there are many reasons and excuses .... and they are probably all right.