Posted on 11/13/2023 8:36:32 PM PST by FarCenter
Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) and its escorts are operating in the Gulf of Oman after leaving the Red Sea earlier this weekend, USNI News learned. Ike and its escorts were operating off the coast of Oman as of Monday, according to the USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker, based on publicly available satellite imagery. The carrier passed through the Suez Canal on Nov. 4 and sailed through the Red Sea and past the Bab el Mandeb through the Gulf of Aden to its current location.
The move is part of the overall U.S. naval buildup in Europe and the Middle East following the Hamas attacks outside of Gaza and the ongoing conflict in Southern Israel.
While Ike is operating off the Arabian Peninsula, carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and its escorts remain on station in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea along with U.S. command ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20), the amphibious warship USS Mesa Verde (LPD-19), elements of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit and French and U.K. warships.
Nearby in the northern Red Sea, USS Bataan (LHD-5) and USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) and the rest of the 26th MEU have been on station with a group of guided missile destroyers. Last month, USS Carney (DDG-64) shot down a series of drones and land attack cruise missiles fired by Houthi militants from Yemen over the Red Sea.
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Just making another cash delivery to Iran.
Or the Golf of Uman.
Ike’s on the ball.
On the minus, port calls in Duqm, Oman.
Sources tell me that our government is calling up just about everyone they can get their hands on and trying to quickly beef up the number of ships in our navy.
It certainly looks like the war mongers in DC have the upper hand.
What happend to the squadron of A10 Warthogs deployed to middle east....just askn. For a FRiend.
Remember the Maine!
So how many carriers are now within range of Iran’s nukes? Is Obama ordering the Navy to gather in a convenient area so several can be taken out?
Two, the Ford is in the eastern Med. Eisenhower is in the Gulf of Oman.
Vinson and Reagan are in the Philippine Sea.
The rest are undergoing maintenance or are in home port or nearby.
http://www.gonavy.jp/CVLocation.html
Vinson’s more than 40 years old so the war mongers may have sent it as a sacrificial trade in on a new model. I wouldn’t put it past these devils.
Nimitz was launched in ‘72. It’s the oldest. Eisenhower in ‘75.
You be old like me?
Is Obama ordering the Navy to gather in a convenient area so several can be taken out?
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Yes because carrier strike groups are so helpless, poor things!
“ Yes because carrier strike groups are so helpless, poor things!”
It’s the traitorous civilians giving the strike groups orders that’s the problem.
The Navy isn’t allowed to defend itself even from those little harrassing Iranian speed boats.
Like the movie Sand Pebbles.
2nd oldest carrier sent to an apex of hostility.
Smacks of something staged...
The Navy isn’t allowed
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Cite the ROEs that prevent them.
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