Under-go maintenance?! Hahahahahahahahahaha.
Hahahahaha. Hahahahahahahaha.
“I’ll have more flexibility after the election.”
Hot mic champ.
Let’s face it, Mr. Soft Power turned tail and ran.
But, having said that, these budget cuts are real.
My son is a National Guardsman, and they have them eating MREs on drills.
When it is needed the most, it is withdrawn? What brilliant naval strategy!
I love that the excuse made was that they were leaving to undergo “maintenance.” Please! Our military left because Putin smacked Obama in the face, said “shut yo mouth”, and Obama ran off with his tail between his legs.
Smart move. The Persian Gulf is a bathtub. Potential aggressor weapons must be kept outside the range required to detect and intercept them. In the Persian Gulf that exclusion zone is almost entirely over land controlled by potential aggressor nations or non-state actors. This is the smartest move I’ve seen yet on our side. (That isn’t to say that smart moves aren’t being made that we can’t see. I hope there are. But paraphrasing a popular poster, “It’s hard to soar with eagles when your commander and cheif is a turkey.”)
One can be sure that while the ship undergoes repairs the crew will be in training to combat the most evil foe in Obama’s eyes, white privilege.
This has indeed been planned for a while now, and discussed (in some cases months ago) on other FR threads.
The USN is doing a three-carrier “hull swap”. The USS George Washington is going from Japan to Norfolk for it’s midlife refueling. The USS Reagan is leaving San Diego and replacing Washingon in Japan. Roosevelt is leaving Norfolk and replacing Reagan in San Diego.
Google “CVN-220”, which is the combined hull numbers of the three carriers and is being used to represent the crew members who will have served on all three carriers.
this is time the US should be building up presence throughout the area. It is strength they respect, both the ME and Russia.
We are now ten years behind in the great game.
I hate to say it, but things are lining up with the Orthodox prophecies. Which isn’t good for the USA.
A recent essay questioned the use of carriers in this day and age. The conclusion is that because of long-range, supersonic cruise missiles and aircraft, their lifespan in battle would be a matter of minutes. The Navy has little with which to wage coastal war. The LCS class doesn’t work, has no defenses and little punch, and is flimsy. Our sub fleet will rule the battle.
Have never understood why we’d place an aircraft carrier, the centerpiece of a battle group, in such a narrow space one side of which is entirely hostile with the exit point the Strait of Hormuz. And it doesn’t matter whether the president who put it there was named Bush, Clinton, or Obama. The same targets can be accessed from open blue water of the Indian Ocean or Mediterranean Sea.