As for manpower - with many more modern ships either sunk or looking at maintenance issues from their high tech gear breaking down the USN may have more than enough manpower to keep at least one BB fully manned even as late as 2000
they have the manpower for the Des Moines class off Iran - and she is not exactly a low manpower ship either
especially as the manpower assigned to one Nimitz class carrier could man Iowa or Missouri several times over
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