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US Deploys Second Aircraft Carrier In Persian Gulf With 60 Warplanes
DebkaFile ^ | October 20, 2010 | Special Report

Posted on 10/20/2010 10:12:47 AM PDT by Fennie

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To: UCANSEE2

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).


21 posted on 10/20/2010 12:54:23 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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This is so Photoshopped! The air boss and the captain would have exploding heads(and commands) if they ever allowed this.


22 posted on 10/20/2010 2:10:22 PM PDT by Tonytitan
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To: Fennie

Does Obama know about this? Or Reid? Or Kerry? Or Fonda?


23 posted on 10/20/2010 6:11:49 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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I don’t know, but this sounds like a routine rotation.


24 posted on 10/20/2010 6:59:33 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: clamper1797

I was in the Gulf of Tonkin on a tin can from 04/72 thru 10/72. We plane guarded for several of the carriers over there when we weren’t providing NGFS.


25 posted on 10/20/2010 9:18:51 PM PDT by longhorn too
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During Vietnam, Australia operated what had been its second aircraft carrier (HMAS Sydney) as a 'fast troop transport'.

As it was getting close to port, some American pilot saw it from a distance and reported an aircraft carrier approaching Vung Tau. This apparently caused a bit of consternation - the Americans knew they didn't have a carrier in the area, so whose could it be. An alert went out and a US fighter plane was dispatched to have a closer look.

He overflew the Sydney and reported back.

"I don't think we need to worry - it looks like it's about to launch a bunch of trucks at us."


26 posted on 10/21/2010 7:32:24 AM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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"I don't think we need to worry - it looks like it's about to launch a bunch of trucks at us."

Funny story. But those 6 byes can run you over!!!
27 posted on 10/22/2010 6:08:51 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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