Posted on 03/01/2011 4:31:37 AM PST by Fennie
The U.S. Navy was repositioning its heavy-hitting warships around North Africa tonight as America and Britain dramatically increased pressure on Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi.
The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, which had been on pirate-hunting duty off the coast of Somalia, has now steamed to the mouth of the Suez Canal in the Red Sea.
The deadly strike force aboard the nuclear-powered carrier is already within flying distance of Libya but the Enterprise is said to be heading closer to country and its rogue dictator.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I did not make myself clear.
Hillary was considered to be the face of the Obama administration. Obama is at least a week late also because the Brits et al who are the loop are not telling him.
He has mounted a presstitute show of force to cover his sorry ass. Oh yes.....the press has no clue and are also not a party to the real goings on.
If you really want to do something useful regarding Muslims, plan to be in Washington, DC. on March 3rd. A radical Muslim group that wants to make the USA a SHARIA NATION, plans a demonstration in from of the White House at Lafayette Square starting at noon. Here is an FR post with more about these $%^&*(%$#.
FR Crosspost: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2681186/posts
They're still doing it, minus the helos. My young cousin is a boarding-party leaders aboard a Perry-class FF (derated after her Standard launchers were pulled: FF's/FFG's no longer accompany CBG's in hot areas because they're not integrated into the AEGIS picture .... and presumably because of the Stark's experience). He sees Mayport often, on his way to blue water. They do yank some significant hauls of cocaine out of circulation, and some video circulated on the Net a year or so ago of their British colleagues using one drug-runner for target practice after she'd been emptied out, eventually concluding the demo/practice with an offering from the Ministry of Loud Noises.
Some of the FF's are being retired now .... they're 30 years old .... one was found to have hull plating with patches that were 1/8" thick. Inspection FAIL ....
Well, I wouldn't, either! lol
Teach him to send the desk back .....
“He should have done it a week ago.” I don’t know if this is true or not. From the map above it seems we didn’t have much in the way of assets in the Mediterannian a week ago. I see two ships in the Red Sea, headed for Suez? Were they busy with Somali pirates a week ago? Weren’t 4 Americans murdered off Somalia a week ago? Did Cameron already have more assets there a week ago? Armchair analysis is for the lazy minded. Let’s have some facts before we second guess our leaders, whoever they may be or have been.
I think that is all it may take...I’ve been waiting for a carrier to e placed off of Libya....Colonel Crazy will freak.
Actually I have just retired from 22 years in the military. I’ve been to the middle east and I have sympathy for the kids but not the adults. The adults seem to go along with whomever is in charge and want handouts from the US when we come in to help. The children have no control over their lives but the adults do. They need to rise up and toss out the militant dictators that are in control. And don’t tell me they can’t. There are plenty of weapons in the hands of the public over there. How about Code Pink and all the others who are protesting the war get off their “high horses” and speak out against the injustices done to the arab people by their own kind?
It was the other way, I first flew CH-46E’s for 4 years in the Marines(east coast), then did an inter service transfer to the USNR. Where I flew SH-3D’s (JAX) for a year and then flew SH-2F’s at South Weymouth for 6 years. The 46 was a good aircraft while I was flying it, with limited material failure issues. As time passed it became more of an issue. It was a flexible platform that one could do some pretty neat stuff with. It did have short legs though. The H-3 was a stable hover platform but it reminded me of driving a truck. The H-2 was smaller and more responsive than the others, however it was a maintenance pig. Maintenance man hour per flight hour was similar to that of the H-53. In the years I flew it I only had one year in which I did not have to use sim time to meet annual minimums, and I used all my additional flying drills every year.
When you spend $600 billion a year on the military you can afford to park a carrier off the coast of Somalia to hunt for guys with big foreheads driving speedboats and derelict motherships.
As for the Reagan, the Navy website confirmed it left San Diego for join exercises, a westpac and then centcom duty which covers the middle east. They don't have a timeline.
Looks like Lincoln is on westpac, Stennis on eastpac, Washington in port (Japan), Truman at Norfolk with the Bush and Ike.
Probably I'm just mistaken.
Again, Thank you and thanks for the link!
It isn't about the money. It's about other sea lanes and coastlines being left uncovered by the Enterprise CSG. As another poster said, anti-Piracy should be the job of a frigate Navy.
If you want to complain about the ship building budget, I’m all for cutting the littoral combat ship. They could build a flotilla of fast patrol craft and a tender for what they are spending on a single vessel. If we had those ships we could nail down the entire Somali coastline at very little cost.
They don’t need to nail down the coast. They need to light up about ten pirate vessels to end the problem. Once word gets back to the coast that the US military is sinking pirate boats nobody will be up for a death sentence.
Maybe so, but there's not much chance of that happening with this bunch in charge.
OMG deja vu, I was on the Enterprise in 1986 when we got called out of the Indian Ocean and became the first nuke carrier to transit the suez canal helping to bomb Libya after onstation in the med.....
full accounting of that deployment available here...
http://www.history.navy.mil/shiphist/e/cvn-65/1986.pdf
Where are all the anti-war protesters? nobama and his minion, clintoon, are about to invade a sovereign country. Wasn’t that one of the endless gripes by the anti-war asshats? Where are they?! Truly...this is Bizarro World. God Bless the valiant Marines who may die because of these two putzes and their “brilliant” foreign policy.
Its dangerous, unilateral and destabilizing!
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