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| USS Nimitz Carrier Rerouted for Syria |
| 2013-09-02 |
| The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and other ships in its strike group are heading west toward the Red Sea to help support a limited U.S. strike on Syria, if needed, defense officials said on Sunday. The Nimitz carrier strike group, which includes four destroyers and a cruiser, has no specific orders to move to the eastern Mediterranean at this point, but is moving west in the Arabian Sea so it can do so if asked. "It's about leveraging the assets to have them in place should the capabilities of the carrier strike group and the presence be needed," said the official. "We try to reduce the physics of time and space so we can be as ready as possible should we be needed," said a second official, cautioning that decisions about ship positioning in the Mediterranean were still being finalized. The Nimitz carrier group had been in the Indian Ocean supporting U.S. operations in Afghanistan but was due to sail east around Asia to return to its home port in Everett, Washington, after being relieved in recent days by another aircraft carrier, the USS Harry S. Truman. Given the situation in Syria, U.S. military officials decided to reroute the Nimitz and send it west toward the Red Sea, and possibly the Mediterranean, officials said. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #1 We have an aircraft carrier that hasn't been sequestered? How can we possibly afford it? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2013-09-02 17:00 |