[Milsurplus] Yalta Conference

[Sheldon Daitch]

I would think the real incremental costs concerned would be the ones
associated with the deployment of ships that aren't normally assigned to
Indian Ocean duty. 

Let's just say 34 ships were indeed assigned for monitoring of the POTUS
trip. Unless those 34 ships were above and beyond the complement of
ships normally assigned to the Indian Ocean, we'd think some or perhaps the
majority are already in the region.  The incremental costs probably aren't
that high, well, not in the 200 million dollar per day range.

Bob, I don't have a clue how much in the way a ship would have to take on
for fuel and food provisions for a 10 day mission, including steaming time
from a US port to Indian Ocean station and return, provisions which would
have to be replenished at the duty station.  Yes, for a multi-month 
on-station
assignment, yes, I am sure provisions would have to be brought.  How
much would have to be bought locally for a 10-day mission?

73
Sheldon

WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> Rod,
>
> The short answer is "No".  Pay costs are essentially fixed, at least in the 
> short term.  But subsistence (mostly food and incidentals (including 
> uniforms and the like) costs vary with where the unit or vessel is.  It's a lot 
> cheaper to take on food pierside in the states than to UNREP from an AK in the 
> Indian Ocean.  And fuel costs are the third and big ticket item.  I spent 
> most of my 32 years in the Reserves.  The last 20 was in the Mine Force 
> (mostly shore billets).  But part of the first 10 was in the NRF and many a 
> weekend we spent pierside because the DD lacked OPTAR funds for fuel to get 
> underway.  And if the fuel oil had to be transported to the Indian Ocean it would 
> have been far worse.
>
> In a message dated 11/6/2010 10:46:31 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> revcom at wbsnet.org writes: 
>   
>> But doesn't it cost so much per day to run the fleet, regardless of where
>> they are?  Sailers like to eat.
>> I really don't see where it is such a big deal.  Besides, it is the
>> President of the USA. No matter who the man is, it is the office that is
>> represented. U.S.A.
>>
>> Rod
>>
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