Curiously this carrier task force has two, count’em TWO LHD’s. that’s two battalions of US Marines. That’s a bit of an overload even for the Fifth Fleet or Task Force 150. With that much extra horsepower somebody, somewhere, is planning on flexing. The task force is nine (9) surface ships plus the unseen fast atack sub. I saw a fresh video yesterday of a VertRep going to the Teddy. That’s a cycle where they transfer remaining weapons from the carrier going off-station to the one coming on. We just hate to haul perfectly good weapons back home. There’s enough mojo in this group to send the Persians and all their toy ships back to at least the 12th century. God Speed to our guys and CARRY ON——Semper Fi-——————————————————————————————Semper Fi
There are usually only three MEU-SOCs out at any one time (One from Lejune, One from Pendleton and possibly one from Okinawa), so that means two out of the three deployed are in one area of the world? Wow, that is a lot of firepower. It also just could be a temporary situation where one MEU is leaving the area and one is coming on duty to the task. If they are doing any vertreps, they could be reconfiguring the ships equipment to fit the task that they want to use it for in this situation.
And Semper Fi to you too :-)