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Originally Posted by Olefin
I think the question would be more appropriate if any naval vessels joined up with New America eventually.
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That's a good point. Actual warships require actual trained crew and officers to operate it. Sure NA may have a few retired/discharged ex-naval personnel, but there's no way they'd have enough of the right skill sets in the one place to even form a skeleton crew for a smallish destroyer. No chance for a cruiser or larger. Even if they did get sufficient numbers to cast off, there's a very high chance many of those people would have outdated skills, issues with authority (there's a reason they're discharged/not recalled in the middle of WWIII after all), medical and psychological problems, etc and on top of all that still need to learn/remember how to work together as a crew.
Even the US navy had trouble scraping together even the bare minimum for the sub, and they still had access to (relatively) decent communications and records.