Posted on 06/02/2012 3:40:54 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
2 June 2012 Last updated at 03:54 GMT
Leon Panetta: US to deploy 60% of navy fleet to Pacific
The US is planning to move the majority of its warships to the Asia-Pacific region by 2020, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has revealed.
He said that by 2020 about 60% of the US fleet would be deployed there, in the clearest indication yet of the new US strategy in Asia.
Mr Panetta told a regional security meeting in Singapore that the shift was not aiming to contain Chinese power.
Beijing has indicated it is unhappy with the US boosting its presence.
Last November, President Barack Obama announced that the Asia-Pacific region was a "top priority" of US security policy
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Why do I have a hard time believing that this admin would do anything that benefits the U.S. and constrains china?
That’s a rhetorical question, right?
In search of enemies.....
Come to think of it, if I were a fag or a split-tail, there is no place I’d rather be than cooped up with a bunch of horny sailors for months at a time.
You forgot his wonderful DETENTE
Perfect homeport would be San Fransicko!
Following UN orders
If it was up to me, I wouldn’t tell ANYONE where ANY of the ships are.
It's on Al Gore's Internet...
too bad Subic Bay Naval Station was closed
He’s running far away from the Iranian troll, he wants to show the world that he has no “designs” on Iran, Syria and other third world havens. Obama won’t be around long enough to complete his destructive plans for America. This outrage is simply telling his friends that no worries, he’s pulling out and running away. How is that Treaty of the Sea thingy going? Just another move, under the table, he’ll sign and further destroy our national security. George Soros must be happy, after all he predicted the destruction of America.
Michelle Obama sponsors Navy’s first submarine with all-female crew
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2888877/posts
—> 2020 WILL BE TOO LATE <—
Something may be up....Heard the large planes with the droning flying late last night. Usually hear them for several days in a row when someone in the world is about to get the shiite bombed out of them.
They fly from midnight till dawn every few minutes. Enough to keep a person awake all night. They may be cargo planes. OTOH saw one being refuled in midday that made a similar sound. Flying just above the tree line
Leon Panetta: US to deploy 60% of navy fleet to Pacific
So we will have 2 ships in the Pacific?
Tell me about it. I'm stationed at NS Mayport, Florida. That place is a freakin' ghost town these days. At least I don't have to fight base traffic driving to work in the morning though.
I'd not be at all surprised to see Mayport on the next BRAC list.
In truth, the USA was opened to China. It’s been a long, one-way street. Campaign money is where you find it.
““Bar”? Surely, you don’t mean a drinking bar, since drinking is heavily, heavily frowned upon in this Navy.”
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Absolutely, I am shocked, shocked I say that anyone would even suggest such a thing! As a proud former member of the crew of the USS Saratoga I can state unequivocally that sailors never drink and we don’t spend all our money foolishly while we are not drinking;>)
I think he meant a sushi bar. Ha!
“I spent most of my money on booze and women. The rest I wasted!”
Also a former carrier sailor.
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