Hehehe...
Posted on 06/10/2004 2:36:08 PM PDT by Whataday
Just something to think about in these trying days. Let's just hope there isn't something going on we all don't know about. Lot's of rumors going on in the DC area...
Such as...............
Ummmm... because carriers that are not deployed do little in the way of projecting american military power?
That's my guess, anyway.
We're doomed!
"Flatten your house, anywhere, anytime."
It's the Illuminati plotting to take over the world!
Damascus? Tehran?
It has to be done someday.
Might as well do it while the iron is hot.
Because almost ALL of the World Leaders are in Washington, DC on FRIDAY.....????....Maybe?
Meteors are on the way which will destroy the entire planet. Why they are putting ships to sea is beyond me. /tinfoil
There are a couple of exercises going on to test the Navy's ability to surge task forces of ships at the same time. These are things you have to actually do when you don't have to in order to find out if you can when you do.
Hehehe...
Because we're at war, silly.
USS Enterprise (CVN 65) - Atlantic Ocean
USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) - Atlantic Ocean
USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) - Pacific Ocean
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) - Pacific Ocean
USS George Washington (CVN 73) - Arabian Gulf
USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) - Pacific Ocean
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) - Atlantic Ocean
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) - port visit, Rio De Janeiro
I'm going to take a shower...
For me, this number is without context. What is the "usual" percentage? I have friends in San Diego, however, who were making similar observations many months ago.
Not in an election year. Not when we're already having troop shortage problems.
It is strange though. I know that there's supposedly some sort of "rapid deployment" maneuver going on, but don't most of those take place later in the summer?
That's where we're screwed in the end. Have you heard of the fire-retardent polar bears?
Works for me.
Anytime..
Anyplace.
No real reason to deploy off the coast, aircraft can be relocated to land bases if there was a need to keep air cover, and the Air Force can do that, too.
The only logical reason to move a sip out of port is if you think the Port is going to get bown up. Anti-Submarine activities can be doen from land bases, unless these ships are forward deployed to a single area.
This is not the 40's, we have much better means to detect submarines and ships at sea.
I cant think of a good military reason to deploy.
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