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Nimitz leaves for Persian Gulf
San Diego Union ^ | April 2, 2007

Posted on 04/02/2007 7:09:28 PM PDT by Sleeping Beauty

SAN DIEGO – Amid rising tension with Iran, the aircraft carrier Nimitz and several other American warships will leave San Diego Monday for the Persian Gulf to join another locally based aircraft carrier strike group already in the region, military officials said. The Nimitz will join the San Diego-based John C. Stennis Strike Group and relieve the Dwight D. Eisenhower, according to Naval Air Forces Public Affairs.

Military officials said in a statement that the two-carrier presence in the Persian Gulf area is intended to demonstrate U.S. “resolve to build regional security and bring long-term stability to the region.”

The Nimitz's departure comes amid heightened tensions in the region following the detention of 15 British sailors and marines by Iran last week. Iran maintains the detainees were operating in its territorial waters, a charge the British government denies.

President Bush ratcheted up the rhetoric over the incident last week, calling the detainees “hostages” – a term not even the British had used.

The tension over the detainees coincides with international pressure on Iran to give up its uranium enrichment program, which it maintains is strictly for peaceful purposes. The United States and other nations fear Iran is working toward the development of nuclear weapons.

The Nimitz will support the war on terrorism, patrol the Horn of Africa and conduct marine security operations as part of the larger effort to “deter and dissuade others from acting counter to U.S. national interests,” according to a Navy statement.

The Nimitz Strike Group comprises the guided-missile cruiser Princeton, guided-missile destroyers Higgins, Chafee, John Paul Jones and Pinckney, two helicopter squadrons and an explosive ordnance disposal unit.

The Stennis and its strike group left Naval Base Coronado on Jan. 20. It is the largest carrier presence in the Persian Gulf since the start of the war in Iraq.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; iraq; middleeast; navair; persiangulf; usseisenhower; ussnimitz; war
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To: Sleeping Beauty

Ah. Remember watching a carrier battle group steam out of the Golden Gate while having dinner in Sausilito. What a sight.

Sorry but I can’t support a draft. You don’t defend freedom by enslaving our citizens.


21 posted on 04/03/2007 6:49:39 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: Sleeping Beauty

One Tico and a bunch of Arleigh Burke’s. All of which can carry Tomahawks. Hmmmm....


22 posted on 04/03/2007 6:52:45 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Sleeping Beauty
Great ship named after a great man.


23 posted on 04/03/2007 6:55:08 AM PDT by New Perspective (Proud father of a 3 year old son with Down Syndrome)
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To: AppyPappy

If even half their cells are carrying Tomahawks, that’s 240 cruise missiles in the arsenal.


24 posted on 04/03/2007 6:55:24 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Salem; BluH2o; Sleeping Beauty; prairiebreeze; SJackson; yonif; Simcha7; American in Israel; ...
" Nothin' cooler than a U.S. Navy carrier under way." Lessee now, the Nimitz will arrive about Saturday, and there are already two Carrier Battle Groups on station - three, if we count the French Carrier. Plus the various and sundry Amphib Groups.

Could get very interesting ............. FRegards

25 posted on 04/03/2007 9:10:30 AM PDT by gonzo (I'm not confused anymore. Now I'm sure we have to completely destroy Islam, and FAST!!)
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To: prairiebreeze
The article says the Nimitz is relieving the Eisenhower

That's the announced plan... but plans change.

26 posted on 04/03/2007 9:39:17 AM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Sleeping Beauty

This all sounds like Iran will soon be gasoline free.
The need to leave the oil pumps and distribution system in place, but with Iran only having ONE gasoline refinery, it wouldn’t be hard to make the chief mode of Iranian transportation donkeys.


27 posted on 04/03/2007 9:43:22 AM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: Salem

OHH that pretty sight seeing USS Nimtitz going to GULF or any nuke Bajo boy from Iran smack chat US and Israel


28 posted on 04/03/2007 10:26:48 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: magslinger

‘Nother one about the Nimitz


29 posted on 04/03/2007 10:55:55 AM PDT by Vroomfondel
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To: Kozak
Ah. Remember watching a carrier battle group steam out of the Golden Gate while having dinner in Sausilito. What a sight.

I was aboard USS Carl Vinson CVN-70 during 84-88 and was always amazed that we had to remove a part of the mast, about 20 feet I would guess, just to make sure we did not hit the Golden Gate each time we went underneath it.
30 posted on 04/03/2007 11:17:48 AM PDT by AJMaXx (ILU Roo.....!)
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To: gonzo

I’d forgotten about the French carrier.

It’s so easy to, you know.....

(thanks)


31 posted on 04/03/2007 11:52:37 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (Iran needs a good swift kick in the teeth. Or ten.)
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To: Sleeping Beauty
but how about for the purpose of victory?

Sure!

It would be reinstated, if the need existed.

The need will have to be more than terrorism. It would be a wide scale war against a State or States where hundreds of thousands of troops may be needed.

it will happen, if the need becomes a reality. needing a few thousand, is not enough to trigger the draft. they have many ways of increasing the number of volunteers by using the resources of the Fed.

32 posted on 04/03/2007 11:57:19 AM PDT by Cold Heat (Mitt....2008)
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33 posted on 04/03/2007 1:11:43 PM PDT by magslinger (Submission? That's a bit of a problem!)
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To: gonzo

Yes, three carriers (2 US and one French) are already there. Nimitz will make four.

And this time, there will be no question about Europe pulling away from us, etc. The Iranians took British hostages, the French are already there, and Chirac is swiftly approaching the end of his Presidency, and has nothing to lose by taking on the Iranian problem (remember: Iranian-supported groups are keeping the Syrians in Lebanon, and the French don’t like that).

So, this time if it happens, it will be a Western operation. Russia won’t like it, but they’ll be isolated without Europe to help. And China...well, China’s economy is dependent on that oil coming through the Straits of Hormuz, so if things go South there for a bit, the Chinese are going to take a nasty blow.


34 posted on 04/03/2007 2:22:29 PM PDT by Vicomte13 (Le chien aboie; la caravane passe.)
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To: Vicomte13
"...So, this time if it happens, it will be a Western operation. Russia won’t like it, but they’ll be isolated without Europe to help. And China...well, China’s economy is dependent on that oil coming through the Straits of Hormuz, so if things go South there for a bit, the Chinese are going to take a nasty blow..."

Roger on the effect on China. The economic impact worldwide will dictate events in the Middle-East for the forseeable future.

My read on it includes Russia as one of the good-guys too. They're steadily becoming a capitalist society, and, like China, a Nuclear-armed Iran is bad for business (A Nuke N. Korea's bad too!).

And both China and Russia have had bad experiences with the evil that is islam. I think they'll both be in on the kill when the end-time for islam begins. It's just good for business! Stay well and safe ................ FRegards

35 posted on 04/03/2007 3:27:47 PM PDT by gonzo (I'm not confused anymore. Now I'm sure we have to completely destroy Islam, and FAST!!)
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To: gonzo
"the Nimitz will arrive about Saturday...."

Thanks. I was wondering about that all day. Long way from San Diego to those parts of the world....

36 posted on 04/03/2007 7:12:07 PM PDT by Salem (FREE REPUBLIC - Fighting to win within the Arena of the War of Ideas! So get in the fight!)
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To: prairiebreeze
"...Or if it will stay there in more of a support role, perhaps."

Nobody knows except the Navy brass. Remember, the USS Reagan is on a port call in South Korea. Not that far away from where these others will be.

37 posted on 04/03/2007 7:14:25 PM PDT by Salem (FREE REPUBLIC - Fighting to win within the Arena of the War of Ideas! So get in the fight!)
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To: doug from upland

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1810795/posts

Roger that, sir . Stand by while I bump your very important thread.


38 posted on 04/03/2007 7:18:23 PM PDT by Salem (FREE REPUBLIC - Fighting to win within the Arena of the War of Ideas! So get in the fight!)
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To: Salem

Thanks. His request was for some beef jerky. I’m going to buy a bunch of it tomorrow. Candy melts out there.


39 posted on 04/03/2007 9:06:55 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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