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Carrier Strike Group Rushes To Persian Gulf
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2012/08/27/Carrier-strike-group-rushes-to-PersianGulf/UPI-35731346063400/ ^ | August 27, 2012

Posted on 08/27/2012 6:17:29 AM PDT by Strategy

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To: Strategy
...a counterpunch to Iranian military action against U.S. military facilities in the region or those of its allies, including the Syrian rebel insurrection, and Muslim Brotherhood Islamic militants.
21 posted on 08/27/2012 6:37:00 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: TSgt
“and being shot off the deck the following morning after observing a night recovery.”

Hopefully you were in an aircraft both times.

22 posted on 08/27/2012 6:40:38 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Encourage all of your Democrat friends to get out and vote on November 7th, the stakes are high.)
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To: Strategy

Looks like the October surprise may come early this election. The only two cabinet officials that Obama has been having late-afternoon meetings with are Geithner and Panetta. Obama needs to play the ‘Commander-in-Chief’ card in order to gain more votes in November.


23 posted on 08/27/2012 6:41:48 AM PDT by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: Strategy

Without giving too much in the way of detail, can anyone generalize about how much time it takes to get a carrier battle group deployed that far ahead of schedule?

Just curious how long ago this decision would have to have been made and communicated out in order to get everyone back aboard, get everything loaded, etc. I assume there was planned maintenance that would now be deferred too.

I’m under the assumption that these ships weren’t just sitting around idly by four months early.


24 posted on 08/27/2012 6:44:32 AM PDT by chrisser (Starve the Monkeys!)
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To: COBOL2Java
And the GOP convention begins. May we say the timing is suspicions?

For the POSOTUS slime and gutless maneuvers are nothing new, it is the stylings of all Communist thugs...and it is in the top five of Sol Alinksy's playbook

25 posted on 08/27/2012 6:46:21 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: GnL

American’s aren’t tired of war....

American’s are tired of bullsh*t nation building like Afghanistan.....

Get in, destroy and leave quickly...let the bad guys deal with their own aftermath....


26 posted on 08/27/2012 6:47:17 AM PDT by nevergore ("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
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To: TSgt

That’s pretty cool. How much overlap and training is required to to get carrier certified? Was yours under emergency or why would they let you play in their sandbox?


27 posted on 08/27/2012 6:47:23 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Strategy

To deter Iran or deter Israel by monitoring the positions of her subs and aircraft?


28 posted on 08/27/2012 6:49:01 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: HereInTheHeartland
LOL! C2

29 posted on 08/27/2012 6:49:09 AM PDT by TSgt (The only reason I have one in the chamber at all times, is because it is impossible to have two in.)
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To: GnL
America is tired of war. If Obama starts something up in Iran, he will lose his base bigtime.

I agree.....

30 posted on 08/27/2012 6:49:20 AM PDT by Doofer (Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.)
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To: Strategy

Obama wags dogs over open fire pits, before he eats them. Kinda like ‘smores.


31 posted on 08/27/2012 6:49:27 AM PDT by crosshairs (America: Once the land of the free. Still the home of the brave.)
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To: Strategy

Proverbs 26:11.


32 posted on 08/27/2012 6:51:16 AM PDT by teflon9 (Political campaigns should follow Johnny Mercer's advice--Accentuate the positive.)
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To: Strategy

Here we go it looks like Wag the Dog time for Barry Hussein Soetoro. Just before the election.


33 posted on 08/27/2012 6:53:29 AM PDT by Rappini (Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: sam_paine

Oh I’m not a flyer. Just a computer/crypto geek. My unit and the Stennis exchanged radar air pictures and data links in support of Operation Southern Watch so we did a troop exchange to see “the other side.”

Poor Navy guys got to go to the desert in the middle of nowhere.


34 posted on 08/27/2012 6:56:10 AM PDT by TSgt (The only reason I have one in the chamber at all times, is because it is impossible to have two in.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
“and being shot off the deck the following morning after observing a night recovery.”

Hopefully you were in an aircraft both times.


I was thinking pirate sniper or something.
35 posted on 08/27/2012 7:01:59 AM PDT by crosshairs (America: Once the land of the free. Still the home of the brave.)
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To: woweeitsme
"I’m sure that Zero will be the hero for both the impending hurricane and whatever happens with the Israel/Iran thing before the election. It will be enough to push him over the edge for the November victory. Watch...it will happen this way."

What's the bet that it doesn't?

36 posted on 08/27/2012 7:03:25 AM PDT by StAnDeliver ("So, a Mormon and a Catholic walk onto an aircraft carrier...")
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To: Delhi Rebels
"But at least mine was done in the Med where there were some decent liberty ports. I cannot imagine where ships sent to the Persian Gulf dock to let the crew blow off steam."

Dubai's not bad, and these days, they want the money.

37 posted on 08/27/2012 7:08:15 AM PDT by StAnDeliver ("So, a Mormon and a Catholic walk onto an aircraft carrier...")
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To: chrisser
Just curious how long ago this decision would have to have been made and communicated out in order to get everyone back aboard, get everything loaded, etc.

The most likely war scenarios are planned and wargamed early on. The scenario, "Israel strikes Iran" is probably the one updated the most. We most likely do not know the timing but prudent military planning requires having the assets the plan says are needed deployed ahead of action and that is what we may be seeing.

38 posted on 08/27/2012 7:15:20 AM PDT by AU72
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To: GnL

I think you’re right. Normally, the American public would cross all party lines and support the president in the event of military action but not this time. It would work against him. Still, because he’s incapable of understanding the situation he is in, I think he might do it.


39 posted on 08/27/2012 7:16:37 AM PDT by ryan71
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To: nevergore

Speaking of Afghanistan, another two soldiers killed today, by their “helpers”. This is the Vietnam approach again, know the war is unpopular at home, just keep the pressure up till the US withdraws. Meanwhile, we atrit our best of the best, our soldiers.

If your advesary knows you plan to fight with handcuffs on, they tend to wait you out. Recall the famous we are going to Vietmatise the Vietnam war so we can withdraw? Same plan, same result now.


40 posted on 08/27/2012 7:18:08 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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