The USN is expert in search and rescue as well as recovering sailors from ships that have been abandoned. If anything taught them the importance of that it was WWII and the level of ships they lost in that conflict.
And keep in mind - shattering a fleet is not sinking all its ships - the Japanese fleet was shattered at Leyte Gulf in WWII - but even after that they still had battleships, cruisers and destroyers afloat in considerable numbers
you can see that even in the modules and Challenge magazine articles - even as late as early 2001 between Iran and Cape May/Norfolk/Going Home you have several DD's,frigates, a baby carrier and at least two cruisers still afloat and still very much in commission along with an SSN
and we dont have any idea from a canon standpoint what there is off Korea for instance or what got out of Pearl before she got hit
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