Originally Posted by
CX500T
They did Flight School to FTS / VR in the not too distant past (post 9/11) but I think that was a 1 or 2 year thing when they were trying to adjust manning.
I was told, at a reserve leadership function, with the then VCNO in attendance, that Big Navy, if they could get rid of the reserve and get another CSG they would.
Yes, they would. Congress likes reserves and I suspect some of that is the intangible perceived benefit of having some part-civilian hooks in the Naval enterprise. Navy has less of that than the other services as it is.
I honestly don't know which would better serve national security... another CSG or the USNR bench strength. My depend on the situation at hand.