Will Navy Tailor Carriers for Europe & Pacific? Navy USS Ford Manager Speaks

By Kris Osborn, President, Center for Military Modernization

Navy USS Ford Program Manager Capt. Brian Metcalf tells Navy League Sea Air Space Symposium Fleet Commands May Add Different “Installs” to Carriers Headed to Pacific or Europe.  Training, tactics and procedures are tailored to different theaters as well.

Carriers for Europe & Pacific

“Once I turn the ship over to the fleet, if there are things that they need to do that are theater specific, for the East coast or West coast, they will have the time and energy to do that. In a work up cycle to deploy West instead of East, that is where they get their special tactics training or procedures training or any installs that would be specific to where they end up,” Metcalf said at the Navy League’s Sea Air Space Symposium. 

Kris Osborn is the  President of Warrior Maven – Center for Military Modernization. Osborn previously served at the Pentagon as a Highly Qualified Expert with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army—Acquisition, Logistics & Technology. Osborn has also worked as an anchor and on-air military specialist at national TV networks. He has appeared as a guest military expert on Fox News, MSNBC, The Military Channel, and The History Channel. He also has a Masters Degree in Comparative Literature from Columbia University.