You can only have 8 Pilots, so you will need 3 additional sailors plus a BO. So 12 sailors total. You would be wise to have a Seaman, a Repairer, and an Engineer for the 3 additional. For the pilots, it just depends on your choice of play style. The most common setups are 4 Fighters/4 Bombers, 6F/2B, or 2F/6B. You want at least 2 fighters and 2 bombers that way you can keep the sky clear and do damage.

8 Pilots (6 FPs/2 Bombss or 4/4 or all 8 FPs, US isn't really much of a Bomber nation so no need for more than 4 Bombers) Elites FPs or +12 Fighter Stats work. Bombers can be 12s or 11s or Elite. TBs I recommend Elites

(Or be like me and have 8 Fps and 8 Dbs for lolz Also have Special Forces to be TBs some day

3 Seaman, Elite Pot or Fighter or high in the 2 stats.

Boost All Sailors and try to get 150+ Vets on Fighters and TBs, DBs it doesn't make a difference how many vets it as... It only effects its Resistance to being Fired on.

Bo If can save money and go all free on it? Try to get a high Repair and/or Restore Stat. If you want Max SD you can B/V/E this as well.

Learn how to properly use Fighters

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On a side note if you do everything right you can even get 900 SD without a Restorer just with Seamen boosting the rest stat on all other sailors.

Whats the sailor for, exactly?

What do you want to do with your midway?

If you want to use it for HAs, with the current metagame you will need to have at least 2 scoutpilots.

I haven't planned on any HAs, just to use it in GBs

For GBs I would reccommend the following setup:

1 BO, 2 RLD Gunners for HH, 5 Fighterpilots, 3 Divebomberpilots, 1 Engineer/Sonarman

no offence, but what good is a sonarman on a cv? it cant detect a sub anyway.