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2003-02-28 Iraq

Nimitz Battle Group Ordered toPersian Gulf

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Posted by Frank G 2003-02-28 10:38 am|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Anyone think they may be heading to the Gulf via the Sea of Japan?

Posted by jrosevear 2003-02-28 11:48:07|| 2003-02-28 11:48:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah.

Too many carriers out and about. It's like looking out your window and seeing a bunch of cops. You wonder what they're up to.

Posted by Chuck 2003-02-28 12:00:01|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-02-28 12:00:01|| Front Page Top

#3 USS Nimitz=four and a half acres of soverign United States territory.

As Victor Davis Hanson described them:

"Our aircraft carriers are this nation's phalanxes, at once frightening weapons and symbols of American freedom. . . . And we have twelve of these colossuses â $5 billion, 80,000-90,000-ton monsters, each home to a crew of 5,000. Their flight decks cover 4.5 acres, and the 70 (and more) planes on each wield more destructive power than do most countries."

Good luck, good hunting, and get home safe.

Posted by Mike 2003-02-28 12:08:37|| 2003-02-28 12:08:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Is one available to tow the DeGaulle out if France changes it's mind? Oh, wait. That'll never happen. Sorry I even mentioned it...

Posted by tu3031 2003-02-28 15:34:03|| 2003-02-28 15:34:03|| Front Page Top

#5 The DeGauule is in Toulon recovering from the last strenuous exercise with the Yanks in the Med.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-02-28 17:38:06|| 2003-02-28 17:38:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Chuck, you have reminded me of another saying, in Sam Houston's famous last question before the battle. "Where did all of these landscapers come from?"

Or possibly Custers last "Is there a Casino near Little Big Horn?"

Posted by Bobbing4Kittens 2003-03-01 00:02:08|| 2003-03-01 00:02:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Guys, adding Nimitz to the order of battle would be way overkill (and probably way late) for Operation Squash Saddam. It's possible that it's intended as a relief, but my point was that it might just sort of happen by somewhere else -- the Korean peninsula, for example -- on its way to the Arabian Sea. What else might be up here?

Posted by jrosevear 2003-03-01 05:51:22|| 2003-03-01 05:51:22|| Front Page Top

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