Kuwaiti sources - 2 additional US aircraft carriers heading to Persian Gulf

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...cle%2FShowFull ^

[jhpigott]

-potentially big news. If true, this would make for 3 CBGs and 1 amphip carrier group in the Gulf.

[jhpigott]

ping

[crghill]

pingers

[50sDad]

September surprise? Maybe our Israili friends are afraid Obamama won’t back them up if he wins?

[RexBeach]

Man oh man, that’s a lot of naval airpower in a pretty small theatre.

But this is the kind of stuff the bloody mullahs understand.

[Allegra]

The six members of the GCC - Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Oman - lie just across the Gulf from Iran. Generals in the Iranian military have repeatedly warned that American interests in the region will be targeted if Iran...

I ain't skeered, Iran. I ain't skeered.

[SolidWood]

After the election!

[My hearts in London - Everett]

This may be nothing but routine. The Lincoln is due to be relieved in a month or so.

[Dacula]

ping

[jhpigott]

assuming the article is accurate, what’s interesting to me is that even if this is just a force rotation, it looks like that we may be trading out 1 carrier for 2 in the Gulf . . .

[jhpigott]

probably just force rotation, but the past couple rotations it’s just been one in one out . . . this looks like it could be 2 in and 1 out

[flying_bullet]

I’m going with mid-October.

[30-06 Springfield]

Let’s quite fiddling around. Just nuke ‘em till they glow!

[NavyCanDo]

I would not trust a Kuwaiti news source to know the difference between “additional carriers”, and normal rotation deployments.

I'm not sure what the frequency is now, but when I was in, the carriers were rotated after six months. And your ship did not turn for home until it was relieved. I don't know how many of these "Oh my God were going to war with Iran" stories I've read here because of Carriers leaving the U.S. for the Gulf.

[SolidWood]

With McCain’s victory we can deal with Iran 2009. With Obama’s victory it has to happen in Bush’s term. I don’t expect anything before the election is over.

[libh8er]

The time is nearing for A’jad to meet his (false) maker.

[Artemis Webb]

"assuming the article is accurate..."

It's the Jerusalem Post. Take it with a pillar of salt.

[My hearts in London - Everett]

The last time a prediction like this was made, it was just routine ship movement by the Lincoln planned long before the press released the info ~ per my daughter aboard the Lincoln. Just sayin’ not to get too worked up about this quite yet.

[Oldexpat]

We need two more carrier groups. There need to be four in the theater to take on the problems of a post Israeli strike on Iran.
It will not be a fun assignment. Iran would probably try to use 100’s of small suicide boats in the Straits and elsewhere,,plus let off every anti ship cruise missile they have.
As much as we need to get Iran out of the nuc bomb business this will not be easy.

[SMARTY]

LETS RRRRRRUMBLE!!!!