{"id":27677,"date":"2017-11-06T20:14:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T01:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27677"},"modified":"2017-11-06T20:14:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T01:14:30","slug":"for-the-first-time-in-13-years-u-s-deploys-7-aircraft-carriers-simultaneously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27677","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time In 13 Years, U.S. Deploys 7 Aircraft Carriers Simultaneously"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-11-06\/first-time-13-years-us-deploys-7-aircraft-carriers-simultaneously\">For The First Time In 13 Years, U.S. Deploys 7 Aircraft Carriers Simultaneously<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<section class=\"node node-type-story node-full node-nid-606745\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The US has simultaneously deployed 7 of the 11 U.S. nuclear aircraft carriers for the first time in over a decade according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2017\/11\/06\/7-u-s-aircraft-carriers-simultaneously-underway\">US Naval Institute<\/a>. The three aircraft carriers with full air wings and strike groups positioned in the Western Pacific are the following: USS\u00a0Ronald Reagan\u00a0(CVN-76); USS Nimitz (CVN-68); USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71). Another four are conducting \u201cshort training missions as part of training operations or workups ahead of deployment\u201d.\u00a0 Two out of four are operating in Eastern Pacific &#8211;\u00a0 USS\u00a0Carl Vinson\u00a0(CVN-70) and USS\u00a0John C. Stennis\u00a0(CVN-74) &#8211; and the remaining two are operating in the Atlantic, the USS\u00a0Abraham Lincoln\u00a0(CVN-72) and USS\u00a0Gerald R. Ford\u00a0(CVN-78).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/10\/21\/711%20carriers_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Top: USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74)<br \/>\nCenter: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)<br \/>\nBottom: USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), USS Nimitz (CVN-68), USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)<\/em><\/p>\n<div>Back in 2016, six carriers were underway and that was considered a \u201cmilestone event\u201d by Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson. The last time 7 carriers were deployed dates back to 2004, according to USNI. The report quotes an unidentified Navy official to sheds more light on the upcoming drills:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The Reagan, Nimitz and Roosevelt strike groups are all operating in the U.S. 7th\u00a0Fleet area of operations.\u00a0Reagan\u00a0is operating in the Sea of Japan near the Korean peninsula while\u00a0Nimitz\u00a0is returning to its homeport at Naval Station Kitsap-Bremerton, Wash. after a deployment to the Persian Gulf to conduct air strike against ISIS targets.\u00a0Roosevelt\u00a0deployed from San Diego,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2017\/10\/08\/theodore-roosevelt-strike-group-deploys-san-diego\">Calif. on Oct. 7 set to replace Nimitz as part of the continued U.S. operation against ISIS<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More basic details were provided by the report for the remaining aircraft carriers:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For The First Time In 13 Years, U.S. Deploys 7 Aircraft Carriers Simultaneously\u00a0 The US has simultaneously deployed 7 of the 11 U.S. nuclear aircraft carriers for the first time in over a decade according to the US Naval Institute. The three aircraft carriers with full air wings and strike groups positioned in the Western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15143,827,4318],"class_list":["post-27677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-aircraft-carriers","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27678,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27677\/revisions\/27678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}