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
Sarcasm, perhaps?