Posted on 12/06/2012 5:34:30 AM PST by Strategy
No.
Mostly sailors, perhaps some Marines, few, if any, soldiers.
Bama gotta defend/install his Muslim Brotherhood friends.
So we can expect to see screaming Susan Sarandon have a press conference about how this is not our fight,,right? and Code Pink will be protesting soon, right?
thought not
8,000 is a drop in the thimble.
Whatever they may be they need our prayers for they are being sent to a very dangerous place by a very dangerous president.
I wish it wasnt true
I can no longer fly a US flag and get goose bumps , the real enemy is at 1500 Pensylvania ave, the aircraft carrier should be headed there
oops got the address wrong , the US Capitol is at East Capitol st NE Washinton DC , send the troops there
General Characteristics, Nimitz class
Builder: Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding Co., Newport News, Va.
Date Deployed: May 3, 1975 (USS Nimitz).
Unit Cost: About $8.5 billion in constant year FY 12 dollars.
Propulsion: Two nuclear reactors, four shafts.
Length: 1,092 feet (332.8 meters).
Beam: 134 feet (40.8 meters); Flight Deck Width: 252 feet (76.8 meters).
Displacement: Approximately 97,000 tons (98,560 long tons) full load.
Speed: 30+ knots (34.5+ miles per hour).
Crew: Ship's Company: 3,000-3,200, air wing: 1,500, other: 500.
Armament: Multiple NATO Sea Sparrow, Phalanx CIWS, and Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) mounts.
Aircraft: Approximately 60+.
Ships:
USS Nimitz (CVN 68), Everett, WA.
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), Norfolk, VA.
USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), San Diego, Calif.
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), Norfolk, VA.
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), Norfolk, VA.
USS George Washington (CVN 73), Yokosuka, Japan
USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), Bremerton, WA.
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), Norfolk, VA.
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), San Diego, CA.
USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), Norfolk, VA.
Have you been following the threads on Benghazi?
Once burned, nonce learned.
I have no doubt that yours is the correct assessment.
“Obama wants every country in the ME to fall to Islamists.”
Especially Israel.
But Israel most of all.
5,000 personal on the Aircraft and are we there so we can give out food pad for by us [sigh]
8,000 men on a carrier seems a bit high, unless “The Ike” is carrying an MEU. That would be unusual, too.
One works extremely hard to earn the title of sailor or Marine. Your lackadaisical ignorance of lumping them altogether without distinction is indicative of your lack of worthiness to benefit from their sacrifice.
I am not being lackadaisical, I am saying whoever is sent, be they soldiers or sailors or airmen or marines, they need our prayers. What do you suppose will help them more, your distinction or my prayers? I’d bet on the prayers every time. Have a good day.
If Assad has chemical weapons then he may also have a perfectly legitimate need - and even the humanitarian duty - to make sure that they don’t fall into rebels’ hands. This may require relocating them if the storage sites are likely to be captured by the enemy.
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