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From: ron@hpfcso.fc.hp.com (Ron Miller)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Are Warships Over-Manned?
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Date: 3 Dec 90 05:14:11 GMT
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From: ron@hpfcso.fc.hp.com (Ron Miller)

> From: crowl@cs.rochester.edu (Lawrence Crowl)
> 
> Are current ships over-manned? If ships are not over-manned today, can we
> reduce the manpower requirements for future warships through automation and
> proper systems design?
> 
> -- 
>   Lawrence Crowl		716-275-9499	University of Rochester

You've answered your own question. The ships aren't so much over manned
as they are under-automated. Then again, you have to include trainees,
and provision for manual operation of broken automated systems.
And from my experience, EVERY system will break and sometimes several of 
them will be broken at one time.

Ron Miller
ex-Lt. USN   USS CINCINNATTI SSN-693  (1979-1983)


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