Why is it strange that the navy wont routinely have a full crew for both carriers Chris?. We dont have three full carrier tasked crews – one for each CVS – now?

The CVF’s will be largely utilised in a duty/extended readiness split so only one crew will be deploying for the greater percentage of the time. For emergency conditions a scratch team would be assembled to crew the second CVF and plans for how that would work will be well advanced now!. Why would we want to pay for a crew to sit in Rosyth watching yard workers hitting things with hammers?.