Posted on 03/27/2011 5:43:09 AM PDT by Zakeet
Wonder why the administration made such a stink of reducing the US airborne presence around Libya, and handing it off to France, Italy, Canada and Turkey? Here's the answer: the CVN65 Enterprise which last week was within striking distance of Libya, has quietly left the Red Sea and is now virtually swimming in the wake of CVN 70 Vinson in the Strait of Hormuz. Because obviously whatever is about to happen in the Persian Gulf will need not one but two aircraft carrier formations. And meanwhile in Japan the Washington is doing all it can to put radiation free miles between itself and Fukushima, even as the Essex, chock full of marines is sitting on the coast waiting for orders.
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I'm glad to hear that they did leave quietly, with no rambunctious partying. That might have offended someone.
He looks like Idiot Admin in that photo!!! Too funny.
Any potential opponents that might be able to take a shot at a carrier group have sufficient intel to know this info.
The major players (Russia & China) can easily observe the carriers by satellite. The only naval assets with any degree of stealth are submarines.
ping.
The Enterprise could be relieving The carl Vinson, people should be more concerned about Libya being the last military mission the Enterprise being involved in before its decomissioned, not a good way to go out
Understand, but wasn’t that before there were more than 200 publically known geosyncronous satellites positioned around the globe? :)
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Last week Henry Kissenger was on Greta’s Show. He was not happy at all with this intervention in Libya. He was alluding to the fact that assets are wasted in Libya because there are other things that are a real problem.
What is it we do not know? And when will it become painfully clear?
Much more of this stuff and we may see a draft arise.
After a couple of days, the wily enemy would have all the intel he could handle.
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Enemy???
Hell, that is how WE got our info back in the 50’s & 60’s..
Course on occasion we did ‘slip in quietly’ in the middle of the night and a lot of local ‘jo-sahns’ had some ‘splainin’ to do in regards to their ‘visitors’.
“is this common knowledge??”
I take it you don’t use Google Earth much.
You can see what and how many airplanes are on the deck and anybody with a computer can use it.
This is probably how they find out which officers are being frisky with the enlisted personnel.
By the time we got that info in the bars in Subic or Yokosuka, it was already being processed and acted upon in Beijing, Moscow, Hanoi or Pyongyang.
Time to what Dr. Strangelove again
HEY
I kin see my house from here...!!!
oh yea?, is that you in the back yard with your wife?
shhhhh!
thats not my wife!
My mom kept a bunch of old letters from my Dad. They had developed a “code” of sorts about where he was headed, etc. Lots of made up relatives with my dad asking questions like “Are you going to Harry’s house for Thanksgiving, and then on to Elaine’s like you usually do?” (Heading to Hawaii, then Einewetok).
I’ll have to ask my mom when I give her a call if she ever let those secrets out to others. I suppose she did to my Dad’s mother and father, at the least.
What’s new is old. My squadron did two tours in Vietnam flying recon while I was attached, except we were forbidden to carry weapons and we were prevented from flying where it would have done the most good. Never thought Gates would channel McNamara, nor Obama channel Carter.
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