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Add these 2 post together and we might have another war. I bet the ships are going out to send a message.

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Navy to Deploy Carrier Groups to Test Rapid Readiness

"A major exercise soon to be underway will have a large part of the Navy fleet deploying out of Norfolk.

WAVY News 10 has learned the Navy is sending seven carrier strike groups out to sea.

The exercise is designed to test the Navy's new rapid deployment readiness.

Several Norfolk-based carrier strike groups will participate. The USS George Washington is already deployed. Two others, the USS Enterprise and USS Harry S Truman will leave soon.

Other carriers involved in the exercise include the USS John F. Kennedy, the USS John S. Stennis, and the USS Ronald Reagan - which left Norfolk on Thursday.

While the Navy won't say where the seven carrier groups are going, the carriers not already deployed are expected to be gone for only one to two months."

Question: Is it standard procedure not to divulge where carriers are going when conducting exercises?

4,198 posted on 05/28/2004 10:05:36 AM EDT by milkncookies (BEWARE OF PREGNANT WOMEN DISGUISED AS POLICE WHO SMELL LIKE DYNAMITE!)

There are also these ships that just left from San Diego to add to the mix:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20040528-9999-2m28deploy.html

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Post #2

Our missiles are now ready to strike at their civilization, and as soon as the instructions arrive from leader ['Ali Khamenei], we will launch our missiles at their cities and installations," the Revolutionary Guard adviser said in a

speech reported by the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, according to Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1144094/posts

***Iran kicking it up a notch****

4,373 posted on 05/28/2004 6:02:45 PM EDT by Velveeta
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And he wears a gold ring...see pic.
http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1916/19160471.jpg