US Deploying 7 carrier Battle Groups

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"Navy to Deploy Carrier Groups to Test Rapid Deployment

A major exercise soon to be underway will have a large part of the Navy fleet deploying out of Norfolk.

WAVY News 10 has learned the Navy is sending seven carrier strike groups out to sea.

The exercise is designed to test the Navy's new rapid deployment readiness.

Several Norfolk-based carrier strike groups will participate. The USS George Washington is already deployed. Two others, the USS Enterprise and USS Harry S Truman will leave soon.

Other carriers involved in the exercise include the USS John F. Kennedy, the USS John S. Stennis, and the USS Ronald Reagan - which left Norfolk on Thursday.

While the Navy won't say where the seven carrier groups are going, the carriers not already deployed are expected to be gone for only one to two months".

This is seven of the Navy's 13 active attack carriers. Rumors are rife about what the actual mission of this huge force. Action against North Korea or Syria are the most popular, We shall see/
 
The French SHOULD be nervous.... :D










(Actually, I'd put money on them being in the Asian Pacific area to keep a close eye on North Korea, China, Taiwan, & the Phillipines...)
 
"Action"? Sounds more like a rehersal - or show. We do not have an army available for any more "action" anywhere else in the world - nor all the beans and bullets to supply them.

But now that we are up to our necks elsewhere in the world perhaps it has come to our attention that someones are weighing our vulnerabilities here at home. That might get seven carrier groups out to sea.
 
Would seven carrier battle groups be a way to extend a CAP umbrella out farther from where water meets land? How many carrier battle groups would it take to protect the east and west coasts, as an augmentation to the radar and ground-based air already in place?
 
I'm betting that some go to the Med. for action against Syria/Iran, others to the North Pacfic to stand off of North Korea and south to stand off of Taiwan. Did I read somewhere that the Chinese will be conducting maneuvers soon off Taiwan. Maybe time for more warheads on foreheads.

Question... If Bush's numbers don't start to head north soon, do you think it more likely that we will initiate hostilities with some of the other Axis of Evil foks?
 
China has military maneuvers off of Taiwan almost yearly. We generally have an aircraft carrier nearby. China doesn't seem to get as intimidated as some think.
It is an old tactic for politicians that want to seem able in war to do saber rattling around election time.
We supposedly have not initiated hostilities yet. Afghanistan was in response to Al-Queda and Iraq was supposedly enforcing a UN resolution. Invasion would be a dangerous tactic to win an election. I think it would galvinize the lukewarm support for Kerry. It would also have the effect of letting the Kerry party say things they have felt are off limits.

I think it is a warning, a show of force to make others think that we are more willing and able for war than we currently are. Sun Tzu - look strong when you are weak and weak when you are strong.
 
The French SHOULD be nervous....
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Absolutely they should. After all, they did participate in joint maneuvers with China recently. China moves on Taiwan, and I bet we're kicking French ass within 6 months.
 
Though I am all for Taiwain keeping their independance as long as they wish, I am curious.
What do you see as being different between China wanting Taiwan back and the United States forcibly reintegrating the Confederate States back into its democracy? Does not democracy imply some level of willing participation?
 
I wouldn't get worked up about French troops training with the Chinese. It's called the United Nations. It's the same reason we have had exercizes with Russian troops in the past and present.
 
Croyance, are you saying China is a democracy? Its Freedom House ratings are 7 and 6. Of course Freedom House is a Republican thinktank, but nevertheless when a "republic's" ratings are that bad, somebody's lying. In this case, it's China.
 
Gee, yes, it is obvious that is what I said. :rolleyes:

No, of course China is not a democracy. What I said was that the United States forced the Confederate States back into the fold. On what legal or moral basis? As I asked, doesn't democracy imply some sort of willing participation? Or did we just find the idea that some would choose to go it on their own intolerable? Were the majority of the people in those States willing to leave? And look at the very name of our country. The United States of America. Not provinces or satraps.
I asked if China wanting to re-integrate Taiwan is any different. I really don't see how the political structure of a country has anything to do with it. The dead are still dead. Is forcing unwilling people into your group better if you say you are a democracy? If so, why?
Another point I was raising by pointing out that we are a democracy is that is one point we cite when we say (and we do) that we are better. Why was the forced annexation of the Confederacy, or any group, better because of it?
I stated that I support Taiwan (or any territory) going on its own if that is their wish, so I would really like to understand why people think the situation is so different. Taiwan was a part of China for much longer than the South was part of the US.
 
Relax brace, people. It's a combined fleet excercise, 3 vs 3, with the odd one out (that would be USS John F. Kennedy) on it's way to relieve me (USS George Washington). We are scheduled to play in this excercise just before we pull in off deployment.

An excercise does not a deployment make.

However, the Stennis (west coast) and the JFK (east coast) will both be in the Persian Gulf region at the same time. I suspect it has to do with that June 30 date we keep hearing about on the news. ;)

The powers that be are trying to get us out of this, since we all just want to go home anyway.

Jeez, one little tidbit of news, and the conspiracy theories start flying.....
 
What do you see as being different between China wanting Taiwan back and the United States forcibly reintegrating the Confederate States back into its democracy? Does not democracy imply some level of willing participation?
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Don't EVEN get us started on the War of Northern Aggression... :mad:

That line of reasoning alone would make it even more imperative to repel China from conquering Taiwan... :cool:
 
Now to really hijack this thread further than it has been to this point......I wonder how many pregnancies this deployment will produce? :eek:
 
Relax brace, people. It's a combined fleet excercise, 3 vs 3, with the odd one out (that would be USS John F. Kennedy) on it's way to relieve me (USS George Washington). We are scheduled to play in this excercise just before we pull in off deployment.

An excercise does not a deployment make.

However, the Stennis (west coast) and the JFK (east coast) will both be in the Persian Gulf region at the same time. I suspect it has to do with that June 30 date we keep hearing about on the news.

The powers that be are trying to get us out of this, since we all just want to go home anyway.

Jeez, one little tidbit of news, and the conspiracy theories start flying.....
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Loose lips sink ships...shipmate :D
 
As of yesterday all 12 active carriers were at sea. (The 13th active xarrier is undergoing a major SLEP overhaul.)

Of course we should not worry. It is just a routine excercise.
 
War of Northern Aggression...

I've always loved that name. Of course, you have to ignore who actually fired the first shots... :)

Up North we always called it the War of Southern Stupidity.
 
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