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What is the USS Theodore Roosevelt doing in the Gulf of Aiden? Nobody knows.

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DCPatriot:
What is the USS Theodore Roosevelt doing in the Gulf of Aiden? Nobody knows.
Steve Berman



The USS Theodore Roosevelt is known in the Navy as “the Big Stick.”  She carries a ship’s crew of 3,200 sailors and Marines, along with an Air wing of 2,480.

And not one of them knows what the hell they are doing off the coast of Yemen, following an Iranian convoy of just nine ships.

That’s because the Commander-in-Chief who sent them there doesn’t know why the hell he moved a 104 thousand ton Nimitz class nuclear carrier into the Gulf of Aden near the Horn of Africa.

The Pentagon told Fox News that the ship is there to track the Iranian convoy, which is suspected of carrying weapons intended for rebel fighters in Yemen, which makes perfect sense.

But Marie Harf, Queen of Nonsense, insists that the carrier group (carriers never travel alone, by the way, they keep missile frigates, destroyers, Aegis cruisers, tenders, and a few submarines around for security) is only there to “ensure the shipping lanes remain open and safe” — and “not to do anything in terms of those Iranian ships.”

Any suggestion to the contrary is “blatantly untrue– so this discreet movement of U.S. assets is for a discreet purpose,” Harf said.

To paraphrase what Teddy Roosevelt might say:  W.T.F!?


more at:   http://www.sgberman.com/2015/04/22/what-is-the-uss-theodore-roosevelt-doing-in-the-gulf-of-aiden-nobody-knows/

DCPatriot:
This is making me nervous as hell.

There are BILLIONS of dollars of jet fighters on that carrier.   The average age of the crew is 19-1/2 years. And there's almost 6,000 of them.

If the Teddy Roosevelt goes down..game over.   Or....it should be.   :whistle:

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