Posted on 10/19/2019 6:39:25 PM PDT by chief lee runamok
The U.S. Navy recently sent an aircraft carrier strike group and an amphibious ready group consisting of two large deck warships, dozens of aircraft, and thousands of sailors and Marines into the South China Sea, apparently for the first time ever.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Warning to China.
Aggressive negotiations.
It’s that Big Stick diplomacy.
First time every - MY ASS!
It’s all about basketball.
I was going to say...First time?
China just posted the worst economic numbers since 1992. Hong Kong is on fire. Corporations are moving their supply chains away from China (most will never go back).
You just have to love President Trump. He’s stomping on Xi Jinping’s neck while he’s handing him the pen. Nothing like the white flag the Obama Administration waved for 8 years. But hey, they had a plan all along...the Hunter Biden Plan.
All I have heard for 30 years is that nothing can stop China from dominating the world .. economically and militarily. It turns it doesn’t have to be that way. We were sold a narrative so the DC ScumBags could sell our country to China.
Rep. Justin Amash calls for President Trump to be impeached over the China trade war. Turns out the scumbag owns a tool manufacturing company in... you guessed it...China.
These people are stealing our money right in front of us in broad daylight.
But the NBA, NFL and Holyweird are sitting pat.
Yeah. Not.
During the Vietnam War, the US Navy routinely had multiple CVBG off of Yankee Station to conduct air strikes in North Vietnam and had embarked Marie Amphibious Units (MAU) (now called Marine Expeditionary Units (MEU)) off of the northern coast of South Vietnam. Then there were the surface bombardment units consisting of multiple 8-inch gun cruisers and the 16-inch battleship New Jersey.
One of my earliest Marine Corps memories was being afloat aboard the LPH USS Guadalcanal as part of a MEU in 1969 and watching (at a safe distance) the USS New Jersey light up targets ashore. Gave me a small taste of what the WWII amphibious shore bombardments must have been like.
Evidently the headline was based on a so what technicality
The Navy said it had no records showing a carrier and amphibious operation of this kind in the South China Sea before, and the last time two aircraft carriers conducted operations there together was on August 17, 2001.
I remember going through the South China Sea as part of an Amphibious group/Battalion Landing Team, during a storm in 1977. All of the tables in the wardroom were tied together by their legs to prevent them sliding all over the place. (Why were they not bolted to the deck?)
Several of the more macho company commanders were not seen for three days - presumably lying green in their compartments or in the head, heaving.
I don’t think we had an attack carrier group with us, though. A Marine and his rifle was more than enough deterrent... :-)
My memory was of going to Sasebo on the Indy (CV62) and meeting up with a MEU heading toward HK and then we split ways...but the transit was all SCS with that combined TF. Would have been early-mid 90s. I could be confusing that trip with a Cobra Gold exercise from the 80s but I would have been on an LPD then ...I know it was Sasebo to HK before the split.
Not blaming the newspaper or article writer. They are just reporting what they were told by the Navy. But the Navy should know better.
In case you are unfamiliar with the reference, here is a Wikipedia link to Yankee Station. (Clicking on the TF77 links embedded in the article will provide information on the carrier ops):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Station?wprov=
Of course, referring to the Vietnam War today is like referring to ancient history. The US Navy of that period is long gone, that’s for sure.
Two entire generations now.
Large Deck Warships, you know as opposed to Small Deck Warships. Then there are the Tiny Deck Warships and the No Deck Warships. What’s a ‘warship’? I know carriers, destroyers, battleships, cruisers, corvettes, submarines, etc but no warships. Must be a brain lapse due to increasing age.
China’s worst year in thirty years, is still DOUBLE our best, during the same thirty years.
Just saying.
Our GDP is adjusted for inflation. I don’t China’s is. Plus China has more room to improve productivity from investment as so many of its people remain near subsistence living. Finally their data is manipulated and no one really believes all their claims.
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