"USS Bataan Enters Persian Gulf" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 09 Jul 2014 6:31 a.m. PST |
In a rare concurrence of events, a carrier strike group and all three ships of a Navy Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) are in the Persian Gulf, for a total of nine U.S. Navy ships in region, defense officials told USNI News on Tuesday. USS Bataan (LHD-5), embarked with about 1,000 Marines from the 22nd Marine… link |
| Chortle | 09 Jul 2014 7:36 a.m. PST |
It would be nice to have a web site or app where you could select a ship, or group of ships, and bring up a summary of troop capacity and weapon systems and their capability. I guess this lot have plenty of cruise missiles. Bataan had been stationed off the coast of Libya in late May, following rising violence in a post- Moammar Gadhafi Libya and an assault on the prime minister. I wonder how the troops behold the swelling scene. It doesn't add much to job satisfaction. |
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