On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 01:39:06 GMT, Michael Wise wrote:

In Navy parlance (at least CV/CVN) a "cruise" means a 6 or 6+ month
deployment.

Since he said it was a newbie question, I figured it was a more
generic definition of "cruise", not the Navy's specific (and somewhat
obscure) version.

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