Okay, Chuck Hagel, are you saying that YOU have ordered this vessel into deployment, or did your Boss tell you to do it? We just played that finger pointing game last week about the Taliban Five, yet another (not so) bright idea from this Administration.
The carrier was already deployed. Hormuz transits in and out of the Arabian Gulf are a routine occurrence for any USN ship in the Fifth Fleet AOR. We did 14 such transits during my most recent deployment.
This is not newsworthy whatsoever.