It's always a "size" thing isn't it?

[SHRED]

"The mobilization of our military in response to the storms in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands is the largest ever mobilization of our military in a naval and marine operation, and we now have an Air Force carrier deployed in this effort; this was the first-ever as well," Bossert said.

Was the military’s response to Irma the largest naval operation ever and the first time an aircraft carrier has been deployed after a natural disaster?

http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2017/sep/14/tom-bossert/has-military-taken-unprecedented-action-response-h/

[Kleveland]

1. Igits! n/t

[lapfog_1]

2. No. And it's not an "Air Force carrier" -n/t

[BBG]

4. Never was an Air Force Carrier before

So it must be a first if one has now been deployed.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Air Force Carrier?

I am guessing this apparatchik misspoke, but come one dude, you work for the federal gov't, homeland security yet, and you mistake aircraft carrier for air force carrier.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Shit, when I was aboard the USS Forrestal in the Mediterranean...

we cruised over to help in Tunisia when they had devastating floods. That was in 1972, and yes, the Forrestal was a carrier.

As for largest operation? I think that goes to the Okinawa invasion fleet of 1945. We put quite a few naval forces out there in WWII, you know.

Oh, and is an "Air Force carrier?"

[JoeStuckInOH]

7. Gaum is an Air Force Carrier... Maybe they deployed Guam to the disater relief effort?? nt

[Journeyman]

10. It would take them out of harms way from No. Korea . . .

good thinking. Probably gonna pull Johnston Atoll in to help with Harvey relief. Added benefit there: Johnston actually looks like an aircraft carrier.

[niyad]

6. it is ALWAYS about size, in everything, with the insecure little penis-envy types.

[sarisataka]

8. An Air Force carrier...

That must be big.

Really big

[redstatebluegirl]

9. Well he is obsessed with his relatively small size.