Frankly, I don't know what is this all noise about. The media often
exaggerate, telling about normal carrier movements as "preparing to
war", or the other way round...;-)

USS Theodore Roosevelt/CVW-8 were to deploy early 2005 anyhow? HST is
still supporting OIF, and Vinson CSG is on the "World Cruise". Anything
unusual? If a new carrier enters the Gulf and relieves the previous
one, as usually, it's normal - different story, when two (or three)
carriers start to operate together there...

BTW, Navy News Stand shows some photos of weapons being transferred to
CVN-71 from CV-67, which is seemingly doomed to end its career...

Best regards,

Jacek


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