If you want to send Salem off somewhere between '97 and 2000, that's your campaign. If I was CG, I MEF at Bandar Abbas and trying to hold onto the enclave, I'd want that cruiser and those nine 8-inch guns. Longer reach than a puny 76-mm on a Perry, and lots more punch. Lots more. A 76-mm can't flip a tank. An 8-inch HC round can. You're a Marine requesting NGFS, and what would you rather have?
In any event, Salem's not going anywhere distant after TDM because she needs to stay close to her fuel supply. Maybe escorting a convoy or two down to Mombasa and back, but that's about it. Again, if you want to use the info I developed for the Navy in 2000-it's on Antenna's board and make things a lot more grim for the Navy than they likely would've been-Leg, that's your perogrative. Personally, there would have been a LOT more ships and subs surviving than what GDW's writers said. Like I said: only one SSN left and no boomers for the USN? Hardly.
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