Word: complements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though replacements kept the Midway's complement only a hundred or two below her wartime strength of 3,425 (excluding aviators), this was no index to the crew's efficiency, for most of them had never been to sea before-there were even chief petty officers in this class...
...emery-paper landing surface on the steel deck. The 5-inch, .54-caliber guns had beginners' luck and brought down a good bag of towed sleeves and radio-controlled drone target planes. Eventually, all departments would function as smoothly. But it would take time and a stable complement...
...fortunately south and west of Pearl Harbor-were the U.S.'s only combat-fit carriers in the Pacific, the Lexington and the Enterprise, with a combined complement of only 180-odd planes. Like sitting ducks in Pearl Harbor were eight of the battleships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, in a condition of only partial readiness. This the Japs knew; they were well supplied with every detail of intelligence about their target...
...Navy is heading for a postwar manpower problem of unprecedented magnitude. To man the postwar fleet, it will need a force estimated by hopeful Navymen at some five times its greatest previous peacetime complement. The logical place to get the force is from the fleets' 2,862,971 war-trained Reserves, officers and men, who now comprise 84.5% of the entire Navy...
Things as They Are. Under Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew keynoted the supporting arguments. Said he: ". . . In the world of things as they are, our international policy, to be effective, must have strength behind it." He added that the U.S. must be prepared to provide its complement of troops to a United Nations peace-policing pool...