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No US carrier at sea leaves gap in Middle East
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/12/30/no-us-carrier-at-sea-leaves-gap-in-middle-east.html ^

Posted on 12/30/2016 7:07:47 PM PST by NYFreeper

For the next week, not only will there be no U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Middle East, but there will be no American aircraft carriers deployed at sea anywhere else in the world, despite a host of worldwide threats facing the United States.

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To: Steely Tom

I think we now have 11 with one of them in an upgrade/repair slot.


61 posted on 12/30/2016 9:04:54 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: rlmorel

62 posted on 12/30/2016 9:05:51 PM PST by Chode (may the RATS all die of dehydration from crying)
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To: higgmeister

That would be the Makin Island, just one, at sea.

No idea if it has any Harriers deployed on it right now.


63 posted on 12/30/2016 9:07:51 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: NYFreeper

My guess is he’s been telling his Muzzie friends in Iran and who knows where else to attack Israel on Jan 20. He’ll make sure we don’t have any assets there to help Israel.


64 posted on 12/30/2016 9:09:51 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Secret Agent Man

Nimitz, Eisenhower, Vinson, Roosevelt, Lincoln, Washington, Stennis, Truman, Reagan, Bush.


65 posted on 12/30/2016 9:12:20 PM PST by bonfire
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To: higgmeister
If an enemy decided to do a hit they could wipe out half or more of our CVN fleet due to stupidity in the Pentagon. It's a loss at this point we can not afford and should not allow or worse create the circumstances for loss.

I'm all for amphibious assault ships. But if the Navy or rather civilian side of Navy is this stupid what will they allow happen to the amphibious assault ships as well?

Planning wise, things have been going down the tubes since Poppy Bush days as POTUS with each administration and session of Congress leaving things worse & worse.

We're taking stupid & unnecessary chances we can no longer afford to take. Our CVN's should not be transiting the ditch because we have such a low level of commissioned and ready ships. True the first post Six Day War carrier to transit the Suez happened under Reagan and it was CV-66 under Reagan's term in 1981. We also had more carriers and were maintaining a 2 carrier group 24/365 presence in the Med Sea. We may well be seeing a time we have to return to that posture there as well as handle the IO & PG.

66 posted on 12/30/2016 9:14:32 PM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: NYFreeper
The Reagan is in port in Yokosuka, Japan

The Ike is in the Atlantic, just left the Med2 days ago.

The Bush is in Norfolk.
The Truman is in Norfolk.
The Stennis is in Bremerton.
The George Washington is in Norfolk.
The Abraham Lincoln is in Newport News.
The Roosevelt is in San Diego.
The Vinson is in San Diego
The Nimitz is in Bremerton

67 posted on 12/30/2016 9:20:30 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: NYFreeper

Well, that can’t be good.


68 posted on 12/30/2016 9:26:17 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Yolanda

No,Enterprise and Yorktown were steaming back to Pearl after delivering F4F wildcats to the garrison on Wake island.Had they not been delayed by heavy seas they may have been in Pearl on the morning of Dec 7.We dodged a major bullet with the japs not getting our carries on that fateful morning.


69 posted on 12/30/2016 9:32:00 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: JBW1949

“I cannot believe fleet admirals would allow this to happen..”

We don’t have a Fleet Admiral; that’s a wartime only level with 5 stars. All flag level officers as well as all the personnel in the military report to the CIC, whose name, unfortunately, is Obowwow. Yes, they could refuse to obey the order but that would be career suicide and Obowwow has cleansed the military of heroic people.


70 posted on 12/30/2016 9:35:49 PM PST by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: trisham

They also missed the fuel oil storage tanks which was a major oversight on the part of the japs.This allowed ships coming from our west coast to pearl to refuel where had they been destroyed that would have seriously set us back till the oilers could have restocked to fuel reserves.


71 posted on 12/30/2016 9:36:17 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

Thank God for that.


72 posted on 12/30/2016 9:38:23 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE
No,Enterprise and Yorktown were steaming back to Pearl after delivering F4F wildcats to the garrison on Wake island.Had they not been delayed by heavy seas they may have been in Pearl on the morning of Dec 7.We dodged a major bullet with the japs not getting our carries on that fateful morning.

Enterprise delivered F4F Wildcats to Wake Island and was on the way back to Pearl when the attack happened. Lexington was delivering SB2U dive bombers to Midway.

Yorktown was in the Atlantic and ordered to the Pacific after the attack but didn't actually arrive at San Diego until the end of 41'.

73 posted on 12/30/2016 9:49:50 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: bonfire

And the 11th not yet in service taking up the slot is the first Ford class carrier.


74 posted on 12/30/2016 10:02:28 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: taterjay
We are about to find out how many other of our citizens are infected with this disease.

Without the least bit of sarcasm I will tell you that there are likely 10's of millions who don't even know how they are going to react when the time comes. I have visited the comments section of the Washington Post, Politico and Huffington Post after some stories have been published and have found that they are full of people who I see as perfectly willing and ready to burn this country down. I have seen comments by journalists that have left me stunned in their detachment from even the slightest bit of honesty. And they don't see it. Their eyes are so glazed over with an almost hypnotic state that even talking to them is pointless. They are not there. I am truly frightened at the prospect of what these people might be willing to do. I hope that I am the one who is detached from reality and that nothing will happen. Then I will consider counseling, because what I see is many people's eyes and read in their words is making me feel almost sick.

75 posted on 12/30/2016 10:03:44 PM PST by TruthBeforeAll (November 18, 1978, Jonestown Guyana. What happens when liberals don't get their way.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Yep. Good to go later next year?


76 posted on 12/30/2016 10:10:06 PM PST by bonfire
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To: Snickering Hound

The old rule for a carrier task force was at least 3-4 at sea (on duty stations),3-4 in for normal repairs, and 3-4 on leave (if not needed).

Today it’s all 12 carriers in port because Secy of the Navy Mabus is a complete fool, obeying orders from the biggest fool in the country, Comrade Obama who wants to leave office by leaving us unprotected.

You can be a traitor by deliberate inaction in the face of a foreign threat.


77 posted on 12/30/2016 10:28:35 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: NYFreeper

He is leaving a hot steaming pile as his legacy. What a petulant child


78 posted on 12/30/2016 10:47:58 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Steely Tom
How can this by allowed to happen?

First there was the plan.....


79 posted on 12/31/2016 12:12:53 AM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: tired&retired
Putin already has a carrier, troops, missiles..... around Israel.... The UN security council motion set the stage.

Putin's carrier doesn't go anywhere without a tug boat to help it along when it breaks down. They just lost two aircraft from it, and finally sent it home because it was too unreliable.
80 posted on 12/31/2016 12:24:49 AM PST by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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