USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).
Posted on 10/20/2010 10:12:47 AM PDT by Fennie
The United States has posted a second aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, in the Persian Gulf and northern Arabian Sea. The announcement came from the Pentagon Tuesday, Oct. 19, two days after the vessel put into port at Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain.
DEBKAfile's sources note that this is the first time in two years that Washington had deployed two aircraft carriers at same time - not just one - in waters opposite Iran and Afghanistan.
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USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).
This is so Photoshopped! The air boss and the captain would have exploding heads(and commands) if they ever allowed this.
Does Obama know about this? Or Reid? Or Kerry? Or Fonda?
I don’t know, but this sounds like a routine rotation.
I was in the Gulf of Tonkin on a tin can from 04/72 thru 10/72. We plane guarded for several of the carriers over there when we weren’t providing NGFS.
As it was getting close to port, some American pilot saw it from a distance and reported an aircraft carrier approaching Vung Tau. This apparently caused a bit of consternation - the Americans knew they didn't have a carrier in the area, so whose could it be. An alert went out and a US fighter plane was dispatched to have a closer look.
He overflew the Sydney and reported back.
"I don't think we need to worry - it looks like it's about to launch a bunch of trucks at us."
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