Posted on 10/09/2015 6:04:12 PM PDT by lbryce
The United States has pulled the USS Theodore Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier that has been central in the fight against the Islamic State, from the Persian Gulf, military officials said Thursday.
NBC News reported that the U.S. Navy now, for the first time since 2007, has no aircraft carrier in the sea. The aircraft carrier was taken out late Thursday so that it can undergo maintenance, but its temporary removal is also part of budget cuts.
The nuclear-powered USS Theodore Roosevelt, which houses approximately 5,000 troops and 65 combat planes, has played a large role in the Obama administration bomb campaign against Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIL or ISIS) since its conception in 2014.
Military officials previously warned of the aircraft carrier’s removal and its negative impact on U.S. capabilities in the region.
“Without that carrier, there will be a detriment to our capability there,” Adm. John Richardson, currently the chief of Naval Operations, told the Senate Armed Services Committee in July. While the USS Harry S. Truman will likely replace the carrier, it could be up to two months before that happens.
The removal comes just as the Obama administration on Friday ended its $500 million Pentagon program to train and arm Syrian rebels fighting IS in an acknowledgement of its failure.
At the same time, Russia has been boosting its military activity in the region over the last few weeks, sending military equipment and troops to Syria and starting to launch airstrikes in the country. Russia is also launching cruise missiles from ships in the Caspian Sea at targets in Syria and allegedly putting “volunteer” forces on the ground in the country.
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Ho hum...
Probably wasn’t really doing anything, anyway...
Didn’t we used to operate from Saudi Arabian airfields?
It might get a boom boom (no not missiles, kids scratch) if the Russian targeting gets jammed somehow...
Like the Iranian Jetliner over the Gulf of Hormuz...
needs refitting for trans sexuals
Running from the Russians.
Exactly!
Well, there’s nothing really going on over there now anyway... right?
This is great. We hate these mos;em bastards. Our leaders have no guts. Russia comes in and takes over because of our weak leader and take over. No AMERICAN DEATHS and no printed money!! Tom Sawyer was painting the white fence when Huck Finn comes up. Tom says “ this is so much fun” and Huck says “let me do it”
But Tom Sawyer was smart. Our leaders are faggot loving losers.. God Bless America and our beloved military . You are poorly led. Get ready for a real leader!!
No words...I do not recognize our country any more. Sometimes I think they have won because my rage can not come to fruition.The revolutionary heroes of our founding would hang every last one of them. My ideas to bring us back are things that I can not speak. This is where we are in our country and the world burns without American exceptionalism and “carrot and stick” power; “peace through strength”. I miss Reagan very much. he knew to keep the savage freedom haters from our shores and could put the scum in their place within America. Obama is an absolute syphilis that nobody seems to want to cure. Trump or Cruz may or may not be our savior.
C’mon, he fagofies the military, guts its cash , strips weapons while arming muslim warriors..... give the guy a break.
He’s just spreading America’s might to the have not nations, reducing America to a bunch of defenseless, unarmed, bathhouse buddies.
To compound that he is stripping America’s regenerative backbone to be able to rebound from the barack obama indusced disaster.
His empowerment of Iran is unbelievable. If israel hits on Iran, he has an agreement calling for us to bomb Israel.
America needs a revolution to clear the house of this shit.
“BACCCK IN THE USSR...” What a bunch pussies, we are! We have allowed, the President of the United States of America, TO SELL US OUT TO COMMUNIST RUSSIA and CHINA.
We can hope that this is disinformation. Otherwise...
0bama behaves like a homosexual communist mohammedan because he IS a homosexual communist mohammedan.
There is no “fight against ISIS” for a US aircraft carrier to be “central to”.
Obama: “(Sniff!) You meanies! Well I’m taking my toys and going home! Waaah!”
Looks like 0dinga is going to allow Putin to bask in the glory of having defeated ISIS and stopping the flow of 'refugees' into Europe. At that point, Russia will be the world's #1 superpower. Another 0dinga goal realized in his undermining of America.
Hecky Durn! You may be on to something!
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