I would question the utility of using U.S Navy personnel as replacements for U.S. Marine Infantry.
Better to call up, draft, or shanghai green troops give them 11 weeks of Marine Basic and ship them over. All those Naval Ratings are not going to be easily replaceable with all the U.S. Naval bases nuked.
Better that they are being used to refurbish anything that will float and converting civilian dockyards or building new dock yards.
Wouldn't even be unusual to find the Naval Personnel as the largest support element is a Joint (and landlocked) Command.
Even if they don't have a ship today, another may come up from somewhere else. Maybe the Phillipines trades the U.S a Land Craft Tank for munitions or replacement parts. Maybe one of the Banana republics sells the US a former US destroyer or cruiser? Maybe the US Navy makes a deal with Brazil, Panama, Peru, or anywhere else that was spared a nuke to use a drydock to repair or build from the keel up a warship?
All those skills can be put to use somewhere even if it is just public infrastructure and those skills are going to be hard to replace when the schoolhouse is just ash.
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