The USS Nimitz and the ships in its strike group were expected within two days to replace the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, said Navy Cmdr. Kevin Aandahl of the Bahrain-based U.S. 5th Fleet.Tony Blair will step down soon. It is now or never if my hunch from last summer is correct.
The San Diego, Calif.-based Nimitz will join aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, now on patrol in the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.
Monday, May 07, 2007
Still Three Carriers
As I noted before, we will have three carriers within strike range of Iran while we rotate a replacement carrier into the Arabian Sea: