In my universe the USN has two groupings of basically intact forces with sufficient fuel for operations (at least in the January 2001 time frame) with those being in the Persian Gulf and at Mombasa defending the shipping lanes from the intact oil refineries at Mombasa and Capetown to the Persian Gulf - i.e. one force defends the Gulf and whats left of the oil supplies there, the other defends the two refineries that are still intact and able to process the oil
We know from Frank Frey's RDF sourcebook that the USN has operational forces in the Persian Gulf and his responses to several posters here about Kenya strongly infir a USN force in that area as well for defending the Mombasa refinery. And he meant operational - as in not broken down relics with no ammo - for instance his description of the amphibious attack on Chah Bahar in on June 17th of 2000 clearly depicts the USS Salem providing gunfire support as the US Marines landed. I highly doubt she was firing the last shells she was carrying.
I have most of the rest of the USN that is left is either at Norfolk, Alameda, Australia, near Seattle or in Korea, with many ships low on fuel or weapons or having maintenance issues.
That is why the Persian Gulf and Kenyan ships were so vital in the end - that is how the USN will eventually get its ships home again - with fuel from those areas.
In my opinion I can see that if the game had gone on you may have had a second Omega being a CENTCOM force heading home after the Russians finally pulled out of Iran taking enough oil with them to bring home the US forces in Korea and Yugoslavia and perhaps even the guys left abandoned in northern Poland and Latvia along with their ships so at least they are all brought home.
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