In an incredible event of irony, or even karma, the USS Harry Truman (CVN-75) Carrier Strike Group is presently stationed in the Gulf of Oman.
The Captain of CVN-75 is Kavon Hakimzadeh, an Iranian-American who came to the U.S. as a child with his parents in 1979 when the situation in Tehran went all to Shiite forcing his family to flee.
Good hunting CVN-75 and God Speed to all the personnel of the strike group.
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Carrier Air Wing 1 is based at Naval Air Station Oceana, Va., and embarked on Harry S. Truman:
The “Red Rippers” of VFA-11 – Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) – from Naval Air Station Oceana – Va. The “Checkmates” of VFA-211 from Naval Air Station Oceana – Va. The “Sunliners” of VFA-81 from Naval Air Station Oceana – Va. The “Knighthawks” of VFA-136 from Naval Air Station Lemoore – Calif. The “Rooks” of VAQ-137 – Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) – from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island – Wash. The “Seahawks” of VAW-126 – Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) – from Naval Air Station Norfolk – Va. The “Rawhides” of VRC-40 – Detachment – Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) – from Naval Air Station Norfolk – Va. The “Dragon Slayers” of HSC-11 – Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) – from Naval Air Station Norfolk – Va. The “Proud Warriors” of HSM-72 – Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) – from Naval Air Station Jacksonville – Fla.
Destroyer Squadron 28 is based at Norfolk, Va., and its leaders are embarked on Truman.
USS Lassen (DDG-82), homeported in Mayport, Fla. USS Farragut (DDG-99), homeported in Mayport, Fla. USS Forrest Sherman (DDG-98), homeported in Norfolk, Va.
In the Med
The Bataan Amphibious Ready Group with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit embarked is now in the Mediterranean Sea. Members of the 26th MEU and Bataan ARG team were slated to train with members of the Moroccan military as part of the joint Exercise African Sea Lion. Now, The ARG/MEU is moving closer to the Middle East.
The ARG is commanded by Amphibious Squadron (PHIBRON) 8 and is made up of amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD-5), amphibious transport dock USS New York (LPD-21) and dock landing ship USS Oak Hill (LSD-51).
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A Ukrainian passenger jet has just crashed after takeoff from Tehran. Reports are that it stopped transmitting data and video shows it in flames as it fell from the sky.
Some anti missile systems, (and even CIWS) once on auto & active search mode don't need a human component to fire. Shipboard Phalanx is that way, or was when I was active duty.
Some anti missile systems, (and even CIWS) once on auto & active search mode don't need a human component to fire. Shipboard Phalanx is that way, or was when I was active duty.
I don't know how or why this happened, but it sure looked to me like it was a missile strike on that plane. What the heck would anybody get out of doing something like that?
As to the "earth quakes", what the heck. Did the Iranians build a nuclear facility in an active earth quake zone.
Originally posted by rinselberg: OK. I hope I don't run out of popcorn before whatever it is you're expecting goes down and becomes headline news.
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Originally posted by rinselberg:
You better get some more popcorn rinselberg.
The Dumbocrats are against war with Iran. They don't care that the Iranians are trying to create a caliphate throughout their region. From which to inflict death to Israel and America, to wipe them from the face of the Earth and to eliminate democracy. Nobama tried to appease Iran with a stupid deal which, supposedly, would allow Iran to get the bomb in ten years plus. Including eliminating sanctions and giving Iran hundreds of millions of dollars, 150 in US cash on pallets in the middle of the night. Delivered to Tehran via US military cargo planes. Basically hoping to put off a threat until later, when it would be worse.
The Dumbocrats were against the war in Iraq when they invaded Kuwait and set countless oil wells on fire. They want the end of war yet were against the surge.
There was a time ago, decades past, in which a similar movement was underway in America. To leave Nazi Germany alone, unchecked, to avoid war.
In January 2016, Nobama apologized to Iran when the Iranian Revolutionary Guard captured an American military vessel, arguably in international waters. They then embarrassed us on the international stage by videoing our troops while under Iranian weapons.
In 1988 there was an Iranian assault of the USS Samuel B. Roberts. President Reagan responded with the largest surface battle engaged in by the U.S. Navy since World War II, and its outcome was decisive. According to official reports released afterward, using a combination of anti-ship missiles, naval gunfire, and aircraft launched from several ships, including the aircraft carrier the USS Enterprise, the Navy destroyed two oil platforms used by Iran for intelligence collection, sank 4 small Iranian Navy boats, sank an Iranian frigate, and severely damaged another Iranian warship.
The Dumbocrats are against war with Iran. They don't care that the Iranians are trying to create a caliphate throughout their region. From which to inflict death to Israel and America, to wipe them from the face of the Earth and to eliminate democracy. Nobama tried to appease Iran with a stupid deal which, supposedly, would allow Iran to get the bomb in ten years plus. Including eliminating sanctions and giving Iran hundreds of millions of dollars, 150 in US cash on pallets in the middle of the night. Delivered to Tehran via US military cargo planes. Basically hoping to put off a threat until later, when it would be worse.
The Dumbocrats were against the war in Iraq when they invaded Kuwait and set countless oil wells on fire. They want the end of war yet were against the surge.
There was a time ago, decades past, in which a similar movement was underway in America. To leave Nazi Germany alone, unchecked, to avoid war.
In January 2016, Nobama apologized to Iran when the Iranian Revolutionary Guard captured an American military vessel, arguably in international waters. They then embarrassed us on the international stage by videoing our troops while under Iranian weapons.
In 1988 there was an Iranian assault of the USS Samuel B. Roberts. President Reagan responded with the largest surface battle engaged in by the U.S. Navy since World War II, and its outcome was decisive. According to official reports released afterward, using a combination of anti-ship missiles, naval gunfire, and aircraft launched from several ships, including the aircraft carrier the USS Enterprise, the Navy destroyed two oil platforms used by Iran for intelligence collection, sank 4 small Iranian Navy boats, sank an Iranian frigate, and severely damaged another Iranian warship.
Iran was well behaved until Nobama came to power.
"Well behaved"? Hardly. You left out a lot of years and you don't take into account that Iran has always and still prefers to fight proxy wars all over the Mideast and other places and has done so almost ever since the ousting of "The Good Shah" in 1979 and certainly ever since the end of the Iraq/Iran war. They (Iran) has used and financed both Hezbollah and Hamas, the PLO, and even Al Qaeda when that group suited Iran's aims. They have planned and financed hits in Lebanon, Syria, Libya, West Africa, Israel, Egypt, & Yemen for several decades, thru the presidencies of Bush, Clinton, Obama, and now Trump.
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Originally posted by maryjane: "Well behaved"? Hardly.
You left out a lot of years and you don't take into account that Iran has always and still prefers to fight proxy wars all over the Mideast and other places ...
I know that. Their finger prints are not so easily seen.
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Originally posted by maryjane: ... They have planned and financed hits in Lebanon, Syria, Libya, West Africa, Israel, Egypt, & Yemen for several decades, thru the presidencies of Bush, Clinton, Obama, and now Trump.
Yes. They need to be stopped. Especially if there is any hope for peace in the Middle East which has been a US goal since Carter.
I do believe that he is dead this time, he has been known to fake his death. BUT, this phot looks like it might not be his? Correct me if I am wrong, but the ring is on the wrong finger and on the wrong hand. The picture of the hand looks like a right hand and the file photo he has a ring on the left. It could be a flipped image? But the ring is definitely on a different finger. The file photo is on the second finger and the other photo is on the middle finger.
I do believe that he is dead this time, he has been known to fake his death. BUT, this phot looks like it might not be his? Correct me if I am wrong, but the ring is on the wrong finger and on the wrong hand. The picture of the hand looks like a right hand and the file photo he has a ring on the left. It could be a flipped image? But the ring is definitely on a different finger. The file photo is on the second finger and the other photo is on the middle finger.
I could be wrong, but to the left of the ring, looks to be the Web of his hand between the first finger and thumb? That would make the ring on the middle finger.
I could be wrong, but to the left of the ring, looks to be the Web of his hand between the first finger and thumb? That would make the ring on the middle finger.
I could be wrong, but to the left of the ring, looks to be the Web of his hand between the first finger and thumb? That would make the ring on the middle finger.
I thought the same thing at first. Then, just maybe after the missile hit, parts were not were they were supposed to be. I looked at past pics of the man, and his hands are very specific with deep valleys and sausage fingers. I am no expert, but I think that is the same hand, just arranged differently.
Immediately after someone dies due to severe trauma, all their digits, their face, and their limbs swell considerably. I've seen it happen lots of times and it only takes a very few minutes. Still, something does look wrong in the picture where he has his hand on his chin. Good observation skills..
All I could discern from the picture is that General Salmonella seems to have bugs in his beard, grubs in his goatee, crabs creeping across his countenance.
I do believe that he is dead this time, he has been known to fake his death. BUT, this phot looks like it might not be his? Correct me if I am wrong, but the ring is on the wrong finger and on the wrong hand. The picture of the hand looks like a right hand and the file photo he has a ring on the left. It could be a flipped image? But the ring is definitely on a different finger. The file photo is on the second finger and the other photo is on the middle finger.
Originally posted by cliffw: The Dumbocrats are against war with Iran. They don't care that the Iranians are trying to create a caliphate throughout their region. From which to inflict death to Israel and America, to wipe them from the face of the Earth and to eliminate democracy. Nobama tried to appease Iran with a stupid deal which, supposedly, would allow Iran to get the bomb in ten years plus. Including eliminating sanctions and giving Iran hundreds of millions of dollars, 150 in US cash on pallets in the middle of the night. Delivered to Tehran via US military cargo planes. Basically hoping to put off a threat until later, when it would be worse.
The Dumbocrats were against the war in Iraq when they invaded Kuwait and set countless oil wells on fire. They want the end of war yet were against the surge.
There was a time ago, decades past, in which a similar movement was underway in America. To leave Nazi Germany alone, unchecked, to avoid war.
In January 2016, Nobama apologized to Iran when the Iranian Revolutionary Guard captured an American military vessel, arguably in international waters. They then embarrassed us on the international stage by videoing our troops while under Iranian weapons.
In 1988 there was an Iranian assault of the USS Samuel B. Roberts. President Reagan responded with the largest surface battle engaged in by the U.S. Navy since World War II, and its outcome was decisive. According to official reports released afterward, using a combination of anti-ship missiles, naval gunfire, and aircraft launched from several ships, including the aircraft carrier the USS Enterprise, the Navy destroyed two oil platforms used by Iran for intelligence collection, sank 4 small Iranian Navy boats, sank an Iranian frigate, and severely damaged another Iranian warship.
Iran was well behaved until Nobama came to power.
Well behaved. Just minding their own business and quietly spinning some centrifuges in the "basement." Their nuclear science projects. Electricity. Radio-isotopes with medical applications. Part of global humanity's never-ending quest for peaceful scientific knowledge and advancement. Who could possibly object?
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Originally posted by President George W. Bush: Our second goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America or our friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction.
Some of these regimes have been pretty quiet since September 11, but we know their true nature. North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.
Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom.
Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax and nerve gas and nuclear weapons for over a decade.
This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens, leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children. This is a regime that agreed to international inspections then kicked out the inspectors. This is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world.
States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.
Providing this link as a discussion aid; not as "gospel."
The article is constructed from 7 conveniently separable discussion modules, each beginning with an easily identifiable module header enclosed within quotation marks and set off with bold face text and italic text font; to wit, the first of the 7 module headers that a reader of the article would encounter:
“Iran’s hostilities substantially increased after the foolish Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2013 and they were given $150 billion, not to mention $1.8 billion in cash.”
The article includes hypertext links, set off with blue-colored text, that facilitate modular expandability; for example:
This is the crap that progressives love. Faq off about it now. You are destroying this great country Ronald, and all the others that take aim at the Constitution. People live off of this reporting, and mistakes are made off of fake facts. Twisted media.
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So you are trying to take down a "fake" news story with a video report from CNN, which is frequently referred to on this forum as a "fake news" organization..?
The fake news story that you want to take down being that Iran arranged those ballistic missile strikes in a very deliberate way that was intended to not cause any U.S. casualties?
I haven't made any such assertion, myself. It seems very credible to me, that Iran launched over 20 ballistic missiles, using carefully considered launch times and target coordinates, and then (figure of speech) were waiting with their fingers crossed for good luck, hoping that there would be no human casualties, and especially no U.S. casualties. That the Iranian commanders used technical information that they likely have, about U.S. missile detection radars and warning systems, and about the two particular target areas that they selected, with the purpose of trying to minimize the probability of causing any (especially any U.S.) deaths or injuries. But I have not tried to back that up with any reports and present it as an assertion.
As far as JCPOA--the Obama administration negotiated nuclear agreement--I will make a "bold" prediction.
I think it's too soon to "bury" it. Not all of it. I think important parts of it will survive, in terms of the on-site monitoring and inspection equipment and protocols that are intended to prevent Iran from moving towards a nuclear weapons capability without it becoming almost immediately obvious to the United States.
Just wait until Trump is ready to commit to JCPOA "2.0"... although he will have to come up with a brand new name and acronym. He was just talking a couple of hours ago about "NATO-ME." The (suggested) new NATO mission for the Middle East. Hey Jack, I'm empty here. NATO-me. Just like that first one, garnished with a lemon twist.
But I don't think that a Trump-negotiated JCPOA 2.0 happens before Trump's second term.
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It seems very credible to me, that Iran launched over 20 ballistic missiles, using carefully considered launch times and target coordinates, and then (figure of speech) were waiting with their fingers crossed for good luck, hoping that there would be no human casualties, and especially no U.S. casualties. That the Iranian commanders used technical information that they likely have, about U.S. missile detection radars and warning systems, and about the two particular target areas that they selected, with the purpose of trying to minimize the probability of causing any (especially any U.S.) deaths or injuries. But I have not tried to back that up with any reports and present it as an assertion.
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Originally posted by randye:
If anybody thought that you actually knew Shiite from Shinola they might take your rambling, incoherent, mentally ill, drivel partly serious.....
The Islamic representative will blow all this off with[i] "Some people did something"[/i]....
That missile makes sense. Iran has fielded the Tor-M tracked AA system since about 2004-2007 and it's fully autonomous as you have previously observed.
I'm also waiting for more info on the "earthquakes" that hit near their nuke facilities on the same night that they don't want to talk about either.
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I'm also waiting for more info on the "earthquakes" that hit near their nuke facilities on the same night that they don't want to talk about either.
Now, this is what I cannot find crapola about. Almost like it never really even happened? When something does happen, then radio silence, I generally know something happened.
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Originally posted by maryjane:
The Islamic representative will blow all this off with[i] "Some people did something"[/i]....
I always go flying one hour after I attack another nation. Just go right back up there like nothing ever even happened. Yuppers, that is how I would do it.
Canada is pizzed!
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Now, this is what I cannot find crapola about. Almost like it never really even happened? When something does happen, then radio silence, I generally know something happened.
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Originally posted by williegoat:
Earthquake near Iran nuclear power plant, reports say natural event
