BHR was undergoing overhaul and rebuild to be able to carry F-35Bs. Not going to have many crew aboard.
Nope. And much of the duty section might have been on the berthing barge you see on the quay wall. Manning duty sections is tough during overhaul. Lot’s of people off going to school, TAD to various “tiger teams”, on leave, etc. Back in the day, we would collapse to fewer duty sections, as you had to support all watch, force protection and damage control team requirements regardless of whatever else you had going on. More recently, some ships have bent to the pressure from above to ensure “quality of life” with 6 or 8 sections. She won’t be launching those f-35’s for quite a while now.