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| US deploys second carrier group against IS |
| 2016-06-10 |
| [IsraelTimes] The US military says a second carrier group is nearing the Mediterranean Sea to bolster operations, the first time two American carriers will be in those waters at the same time since the 2003 Iraq invasion. US European Command spokesman Lt. Col. David Westover says Thursday the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and its strike group of guided missile cruisers and destroyers is now in EUCOM’s area of responsibility in the Atlantic en route to the Mediterranean. It joins the USS Harry S. Truman carrier strike group already in the Mediterranean. US 6th Fleet spokesman Lt. Shawn Eklund says US warships are there to carry out anti-Islamic State actions and to reassure European allies. He says: “When we put carriers in place, it sends a signal.” |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 When deployed, the CAPX cost of shelf life maintenance becomes OPX. Looks better for GAO and moves the vessels closer to funded retrofit. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-06-10 18:23 |
| #7 An easily moveable red line. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-06-10 15:05 |
| #6 Offload the airwing and the hangar bay becomes a really big dorm room; lots of space for cots. Refugee incoming, supersized. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2016-06-10 14:45 |
| #5 More likely R2P, part two. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-06-10 13:59 |
| #4 Prepping for the AFG surge? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-06-10 11:35 |
| #3 Don't want to send it to Westpac and make the Chinese angry. |
| Posted by: Sonny Mussolini4178 2016-06-10 10:41 |
| #2 0bean has a problem. If Trump wins, ISIS better be on its way out or Trump will show the world how it's done, thereby pantsing 0bean, underwear and all. |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-06-10 09:28 |
| #1 He says: “When we put carriers in place, it sends a signal.” And that's about all our military is capable of these days given the desires of our current regime. Sending ordnance? Not so much. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-06-10 08:16 |