The US Navy IS always ready. The TR is in the yards now my crew is busy stripping her storerooms of aviation parts and transfering them to our carrier so we can get ready to go out lots of 18 hour days. The tanker is probably topping of her tanks for the diesel generators each is the size of a locomotive (one is directly under my berthing space makes for a long night sometimes), forklifts, small boats, aircraft dollys, firetrucks, tugs all can run on JP5. We can go from cold start to underway in a matter of hours so the reactors not running are a mute point. Normaly we refuel underway we can refuel in a couple of hours thats JP5 and marine diesel. Jerome if your upset about the money spent on the defense dept we just completed the navys 3rd largest construction project under budget by 3 million dollars and we finished a year ahead of projected finish dates hope that helps.