You: "What does one's apprehension of the fleet have to do with all this?"
LOLOL. Well...um...{{thinking thinking trying to recover}}...it's necessary in understanding the SECRET Navel fleet that usually stays under cover...under wraps...an omnipresent fleet only visible to TSA machines and Mad Magazine mail-order Xray vision sunglasses...a fleet that gets around as it pleases by day buttoned up in a sea of darkness...hiding in plain view yet out of the harsh sun of day...growing in size with over-fuling...stealthly gathering something called a codeword "lint"...to be used for secret, unknown and yet-understood Naval purposes....
...and that's my navel-gazing's explanation and I'm stickin' to it. ;-)
I'm having a bad day...and I really DO know the difference between a naval fleet and a navel fleet. One is found beached and bronzed in Miami, and the other is found offshore in the BIG water...and on which my dad and uncle took off and landed. :-)
Have a good day everybody. Good weekend, too.