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National Security & Defense

JayhawkSD

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2. I love that term, "availability."

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2019, 09:08 AM

Mar 2019

The Navy has lovely terms in its own unique language and that term, as in, "the Ford’s post-shakedown availability at the Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding complex" is one of my favorites. It means the opposite of what it says. It means a period of time during which the Navy will not be able to use the ship.

Now most people would regard that as a period of unavailability, but not the Navy. To them is is important to say that the ship is entering a period when it will be available to the shipyard, not to the Navy.

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