Posted on 02/19/2017 9:07:28 AM PST by blam
Threatening to destabilize the tentative improvement in Sino-US relations achieved in recent days following Trump's recent concession over the "One China" policy, was the US deployment of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) to the disputed waters of the South China Sea on Saturday as part of maritime "routine operations", according to an announcement posted on the Vinson's Facebook page.
Sailing with the 97,000-ton Vinson is the guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer, the Navy said in a statement. The Vinson carries a flight group of more than 60 aircraft, including F/A-18 jet fighters.
The deployment comes just one day after China wrapped up its own naval exercises in the South China Sea on Friday, CNN reported. War games involving its own aircraft carrier have unnerved neighbors with which it has long-running territorial disputes.
US aircraft carrier operations in the South China Sea are not unusual. Almost a year ago, the USS John C. Stennis led a similar cruise through the area. And the Vinson was in the South China Sea in 2015 (all Obama), just one of its 16 operations in the South China Sea in its 35-year history. The cruise of the Vinson in the South China Sea is the second of a high-profile US Navy vessel this month.
It also follows training operations in the South China Sea conducted by the littoral combat ship USS Coronado, which is temporarily based in Singapore, according to a Navy statement. "While underway, we are conducting training across multiple mission areas including weapons training, manned and unmanned flight operations, ship handling, and damage control drills," said Cmdr. Scott Larson, the Coronado's commanding officer. "Training at sea in these warfare areas maintains crew proficiency and ensures we are ready to operate successfully in a variety of missions."
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The media is itching to blame some international incident on TRUMP...just watch!
“Why is deploying to international waters viewed as threatening?”
The US Navy is the most frequently deployed diplomatic “stick” used by the President to enforce freedom of the seas. The threat of the Navy’s presence stops stronger powers from threatening weaker powers with “sanctions” intended to force coercion. The Navy doesn’t even need to be there at the moment. Just the threat that it can be there is sufficient. Because China does want to be threatening to its neighbors, this deployment is viewed by them as a threat to their threat.
This incomplete story could lead some to believe the Vinson is sailing with but one DDG escort.
Let me assure the team here this Strike Group consists of:
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2, and embarked Destroyer Squadron (CDS) 1 deployed with Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) and Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) and USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108).
You can also rest assured there are at least two Virginia class subs picketing nearby. Almost certainly another Destroyer Squadron/Surface Action Group in theater.
There is also a Trident boat on station in the North Pacific 7x24x365.
And no tellin’ what our Air Force brothers have in theater.
They can go wherever they damn well want, whenever it damn well pleases them. China will do jack sh1t.
Why is “Routine” in quotes in the headline? The story says another CVN exercised there last year.
Probably the quotation marks are because it is a direct quote from military public relations as to the nature of the deployment.
Probably it *is* routine, meaning it has been done before and it will be done again.
Bloggers tend to read too much into anything to do with the military, trying to connect routine training and deployments with whatever headline is in the news at that moment.
The Vinson has been in the South China Sea quite a bit in the last couple years.
“Routine” as not in a while thanks to Obama.
China knows it cannot even come close to matching us at sea.
HAVE a safe & productive deployment NAVY
“used by ANY President to enforce freedom of the seas and US POLICY”
Just a little more accurate... (of course this did not apply to the jug-eard Executive Anus)
WOW that map is a mess ,LOL
During peacetime, if you were sailing outside the 12 nautical miles (13.8 mi/22.2 km)of all countries' Territorial waters, you had the international right to do so at your discretion. These days it is the Chinese Communists sole intent to make the entire South China Sea, an area of some 1,400,000 square miles (3,500,000 sq km) their very own "Territorial Waters" completely under their sovereignty where no other nations' ship may enter without their expressed permission.
This we cannot allow and since the Obama Administration did practically nothing to discourage Red China's actions, islands-building or ambitions there, our navy making normal unfettered access patrols there is imperative to support international Law of the Sea.
Tyler Durden's main interest here appears to show how President Trump is upsetting the apple cart by sending in a carrier of which he know nothing about--
Talk about you typical Not Only Fake... 
But Incomplete, Misleading, Not Informative News?
Gadzooks, campers-- Durden does not know his Five Ws, much less... 
the US Navy's deployments nor his arse from his elbow.
Carrier groups have been noticeably present in the South China Sea in recent years. The Stennis Group last April inspired talk the there was a ‘disconnect’ between the US military’s long-standing ‘freedom of navigation’ operations and Obama’s wimpy White House views.
The Reagan Group was there in June 2016. The Chinese actually tried to hack the Reagan in July.
Why the Leftist establishment hates him and why I gloat every day!
Sarcasm, perhaps?
Eactly right, Bender2:
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That should be “Exactly right, Bender2” :)
Right with you on that. That carrier looks a bit old but of course the libs would go stir crazy if Trump sent a rowboat with 2 men armed with muskets. It is fun watching the MSM p all over themselves.
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