User:Gillan1220/Sandbox/State of the U.S. Navy (Dawn of the Dead 2004)



The United States Navy in 2004 was the world's largest and most superior blue-water navy. It comprised roughy 12 aircraft carriers, 13 amphibious assault ships, 13 amphibious transport docks, 12 landing ship docks, 2 amphibious command ships, a large number of surface assets such as destroyers, cruisers, and frigates, and a formidable submarine fleet, of which some are armed with nuclear weapons. At the time of the outbreak on May 7-8, 2004, many of the warships were either deployed overseas supporting U.S. military forces and other allied forces in the Middle East or Southeast Asia as part of the Global War on Terrorism but a large were indefinitely abandoned port as the bases were overrun by Reanimated Life Forms (RLFs). Some ships were fortunate enough to be at sea at the time of the outbreak but these soon became part of a large fleet of nomadic boat people had they not found a safe port to dock. As the outbreak weakened between 2007 to 2014, many of these warships were old and in need of repair. Some were outright struck for spare parts. Some settled in Hawaii which was relatively unaffected by the outbreak due to the large presence of the U.S. military on the islands. Some settled in the Aleutians, Alaska, and western Canada alongside the Royal Canadian Navy since the cold, freezing temperatures stopped the RLFs dead in their tracks. However, some have returned to what is American-claimed territory especially in the East and West Coasts, bringing with them home an estimate of 1.3 million American expatriates who were abroad at the time of the outbreak.

We here in the Department of Defense in the best of our ability tried to make this report accurate as possible, but some data may have been lost over the years due to neglect, elements of nature, and the subsequent fire that destroyed a large part of the Pentagon as Washington, D.C. and the surrounding metros were overrun with RLFs. This report is incomplete and may require revision soon.

Released October 22, 2019 under The Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552,

U.S. Department of Defense 1400 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301-1400

Aircraft carriers, conventional-powered (1):

 * USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)

Aircraft carriers, nuclear-powered (3):

 * USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
 * USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
 * USS George Washington (CVN-73)

Amphibious assault ships (9):

 * USS Tarawa (LHA-1)
 * USS Saipan (LHA-2)
 * USS Peleliu (LHA-5)
 * USS Wasp (LHD-1)
 * USS Essex (LHD-2)
 * USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)
 * USS Boxer (LHD-4)
 * USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6)
 * USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7)