Reply #18: They're shipping out of San Diego too. [View All]

For points unknown.

I paste the following from this thread: (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1701699)


Navy to Deploy Carrier Groups to Test Rapid Readiness

A major exercise soon to be underway will have a large part of the Navy fleet deploying out of Norfolk.

WAVY News 10 has learned the Navy is sending seven carrier strike groups out to sea.

The exercise is designed to test the Navy's new rapid deployment readiness.

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While the Navy won't say where the seven carrier groups are going, the carriers not already deployed are expected to be gone for only one to two months.
http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=1902088&nav=23iiNU2h

Coronado, Calif. -- The carrier USS John C. Stennis left Naval Air Station North Island Monday just after 8 a.m. on a four-month deployment in the Pacific Ocean.

Thousands of sailors said their goodbyes to family members on the dock at Naval Air Station North Island before the sun came up Monday. The carrier will lead a six-ship strike group on a deployment to the Western Pacific. The other ships are the missile cruiser Lake Champlain, the destroyer Howard, the guided-missile frigate Ford, the fast-attack submarine Salt Lake City and the replenishment ship Rainier. All of the ships are based in San Diego except the Ford and the Ranier, which are ported in Bremerton, Wash.

Although the ships are not scheduled to deploy off of Iraq, Capt. David Buss said the mission is open-ended.

"My crystal ball gets a little fuzzy as I look toward the outer months of the deployment. We're not exactly sure what our tasking will be or where we'll be asked to go," Buss told NBC 7/39. "This is deployment No. 10 for me personally, and the one thing that I've told the crew is the nine I've done before, not a single one has gone the way it was scripted the day we left homeport. Because of that, we're pretty much ready to respond wherever we're needed throughout the world."
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/3339032/detail.html

Freaky, freaky stuff! :scared: