The USS Nimitz, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier which is currently supplemented by biofuel, sails about 150 miles north of the island of Oahu during the RIMPAC Naval exercises off Hawaii July 18,2012. REUTERS/Hugh Gentry
Exclusive: USS Nimitz Carrier Group Rerouted For Possible Help With Syria -- Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and other ships in its strike group are heading west toward the Red Sea to help support a limited U.S. strike on Syria, if needed, defense officials said on Sunday.
The Nimitz carrier strike group, which includes four destroyers and a cruiser, has no specific orders to move to the eastern Mediterranean at this point, but is moving west in the Arabian Sea so it can do so if asked. It was not immediately clear when the ships would enter the Red Sea, but they had not arrived by Sunday evening, said one official.
"It's about leveraging the assets to have them in place should the capabilities of the carrier strike group and the presence be needed," said the official.
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My Comment: If the USS Truman is also repositioned .... this will tell me that the U.S. strike on Syria will not be a minor affair, but a massive and crippling decapitation of Syrian command and control and the destruction of critical airfields and military units. In short .... USS carrier strike groups are not in the habit of launching just a few tomahawk missiles .... they are used to cause massive destruction.
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