those are the carl vinson and the enterprise strike group.also there was the baton amfibious ready group that returned in february and they did a 10 1/2-month long deployment that was an operational extension and that is one of the longest deployment in decades. the navy recently announced in february that there would be 11 ships over the next two years doing eight month long deployments and eight month long deployments, scheduled deployments to meet their presence requirements. >> that goes to a surge is what it used to be in the past. >> exactly. and those in the past, deployments of that length had been for wars and crisis, these are scheduled deployments. if there is a crisis, sailors and their families can expect them to be gone even longer. >> and basically it's all driven by central command and combatant commands around the world. >> that's correct. so the navy is doing its best to manage the training, equipping of those ships and the preparations, but ultimately they're having to support the combatant commanders. >> but isn't it almos