eric: what s the reason? we don t know. all analysts are wondering what s up with that, they need self-aircraft like the f35 and 322 to challenge china and russia and others and with the aircraft carrier it s puzzling because they want to have presence in the pacific, so we really need to keep all the carriers, china is just too big of a threat and we have to reach out with bombers, tankers in order to deter china s threats in south china sea and other areas. they have their own aircraft carrier development. so, you know, why would we take uss truman out of the water? exactly, they have a second one ready and third one waiting and so in no time to be cutting back aircraft carrier force but we need to fight multidomain