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American Warships Heading to Egypt
Connecticut's newspaper The Day noted on January 24th:
Connecticut
National Guard Detachment 2, Company I, 185th Aviation Regiment of
Groton has mobilized and will deploy to the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, to
support the Multinational Force and Observers.
The unit left
Connecticut Jan. 15 for Fort Benning, Ga., for further training and
validation. The unit operates C-23C Sherpa aircraft and has deployed
three times in the last seven years in support of the conflicts in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
The unit will provide an on-demand aviation asset
to the Multinational Force and Observers commander to support its
mission of supervising the security provisions of the Egypt/ Israel
Peace Treaty.
Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reported:
The
Pentagon is moving U.S. warships and other military assets to make
sure it is prepared in case evacuation of U.S. citizens from Egypt
becomes necessary, officials said Friday.
The Kearsarge, an amphibious assault ship
carrying 700 to 800 troops from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit,
and the Ponce have arrived in the Red Sea, putting them off Egypt’s
shores in case the situation worsens.
Pentagon officials
emphasized that military intervention in Egypt was not being
contemplated and that the warships were being moved only for
contingency purposes in case evacuations became necessary.
In
addition to the Marines, the Kearsarge normally carries around four
dozen helicopters and harrier jets that would permit evacuations and
other humanitarian operations, the officials said. More than 1,000
Marines from the Kearsarge were sent to Afghanistan last month on a
temporary deployment, leaving roughly one-third still aboard, officials
said.
The Kearsarge is an attack vessel.
As Wikipedia notes:
In carrying out her mission, Kearsarge
not only transports and lands ashore troops, but also tanks, trucks,
artillery, and the complete logistic support needed to supply an
assault.
The assault support system aboard ship coordinates
horizontal and vertical movement of troops, cargo and vehicles. Monorail
trains, moving at speeds up to 600 ft/min (3 m/s), transport cargo and
supplies from storage and staging areas throughout the ship to a
13,600 square feet (1,260 m2) well deck which opens to the
sea through huge gates in the ship's stern. There, the cargo, troops and
vehicles are loaded aboard landing craft for transit to the beach. The
air cushion landing craft can "fly" out of the dry well deck, or the
well deck can be flooded so conventional landing craft can float out on
their way to the beach.
Simultaneously, helicopters are brought
from the hangar deck to the flight deck by two deck-edge elevators and
loaded with supplies from three massive cargo elevators.
Kearsarge's
armament suite includes the NATO RIM-7 Sea Sparrow point defense system
for anti-aircraft support, RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles, 25 mm
chain guns and the Phalanx close-in weapon system to counter threats
from low-flying aircraft and close-in small craft. Missile decoy
launchers augment the anti-ship missile defenses.
However, the Kearsarge has also been used in missions to evacuate people stranded in war zones. Wikipedia describes this unique dual capability:
Kearsarge is
fully capable of amphibious assault, advance force and special purpose
operations, as well as non-combatant evacuation and other humanitarian
missions. Since her commissioning, she has performed these missions the
world over, including evacuating non-combatants from Freetown, Sierra
Leone, on 31 May 1997 and rescuing Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady from
Serb-controlled territory in Bosnia on 8 June 1995. Additionally,
Kearsarge is fully equipped with state of the art command and control
(C&C) systems for flagship command duty, and her medical facilities
are second in capability only to the Navy's hospital ships, USNS Comfort
(T-AH-20) and Mercy (T-AH-19). These facilities allowed Kearsarge to
serve a dual role during the 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia, as a platform for bombing missions against Serb forces in
Operation Allied Force, and as a treatment facility for Albanian
refugees in Operation Shining Hope.
The Los Angeles Times continues:
In
addition, the aircraft carrier Enterprise is in the eastern
Mediterranean. The Pentagon originally announced that the carrier was
heading through the Suez Canal for the Arabian Gulf, but the crisis in
Egypt appears to have prompted a decision to keep it in the
Mediterranean at least temporarily.
Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea (as well as the Red Sea):
The Enterprise is the longest naval vessel in the world, and is powered by eight
nuclear reactors. The Enterprise does not appear to have any dual role
for evacuations, but is simply an offensive aircraft carrier.
Therefore,
I see no clear indication that the U.S. government has affirmatively
decided to directly involve our military in Egypt. However, it is
obvious that the government is at least planning for the possibility.
Update: Business Insider notes:
A "very senior" member of the US Marine corps is telling people "multiple platoons" are deploying to Egypt, a source tells us.
There is a system within the US Marines that alerts the immediate
families of high-ranking marines when their marine will soon be deployed
to an emergency situation where they will not be able to talk to their
spouses or families.That alert just went out, says our source.
This senior Marine told our source that the Pentagon will deploy
"multiple platoons" to Egypt over the next few days and that the
official reason will be ‘to assist in the evacuation of US citizens."Our source was told that "the chances they were going over there went from 70% yesterday to 100% today."
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I think the people of Fallujah, and everywhere else the US has used depleted uranium, illegally and immorally, don't owe amrka anything but their eternal disgust.
That is an inconvenient truth to our leadership and sheeple. Watch it never get mentioned.
I have, for years now.
but I've also seen more people come to awareness as time passes, and more military return to their families, poisoned.
if only we could get to them before they enlist. . .
I think of the charred American corpses that were hung off that bridge in Fallajah before the Marines ever went there.
I also think of the slanderous lies of Haditha the left threw around ruining honorable men & their families lives.
You're not the only one with a long memory Cat.
you are. right now.
all that is happening presently in the middle east was pre-planned for the imminent attack on iran. remember all the weaponry that was sold to egypt? well, it wasn't sold to them, it was intentionally placed there for what is about to unfold. it all has to do with oil! show is about to start!
all that is happening presently in the middle east was pre-planned for the imminent attack on iran. remember all the weaponry that was sold to egypt? well, it wasn't sold to them, it was intentionally placed there for what is about to unfold. it all has to do with oil! show is about to start!
U.S. imperialism = liberation? Since when?
Like we're "liberating" Afganistan?
And they want to "liberate" Iran?
"Liberate". That's what communists call it. We're using their teminology now?
Ditto. The Marxist/anti-imperialist BS that permeate comments here is something to behold.
Propagandists have to step in and dress reality. Because the situation is plain to see for all and it diverges strongly from what propangadists have sold.
People depicting reality have to be labelled as members of a group to hide the very fact that reality contradicts propaganda. People do not state that the King walks naked because the King goes naked but because they belong to a certain group.
It is the way of thinking that originated in the US and has permeated the West: it is gangs. If you understand gangs, you understand this way of thinking. Good gang members will shut up when a fact is adverse to their gang. They wont make it public. If they make it public, then it is because they hate on the gang and therefore no longer part of the gang, with the associated danger.
good analogy. . . also describes gender groupthink and the subsequent "policing" that happens to those who transgress the unwritten rules.
the thought police always target independence.
You and Doszap are classics..
Liberate Iraq.. That's funny... Marxist.. That's funny too..
Couple of racist assholes that love to see women and children lying dead in the streets.. Ohhh yeah... it's for their own good though.. If only the brown people of the world would appreciate our military are much as you two fucktards do.,.
heh heh heh
heh.
, Porn etc. What does the SEC have to do with this. I hear they are about to bust Madoff. Is the Egyptian market corrupt too?
But I thought it was the obligation of those businesses to set up shop in the U.S.A.?
Primary goal is to be able to keep the Suez Canal open if that becomes necessary.
...Germane Repost for those who haven't viewed this....
Why Canada's four western Provinces, led by Gateway city Vancouver BC, is the safest quadrant in the world today.
A plethora of Natural Resources w/ only 12.5 million citizens.
Vancouver BC is Canada's Geneva of Switzerland...
http://seenoevilspeaknoevilhearnoevil.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-vancouver-bc-is-worlds-safe-haven.html
have a leaky condo for sale? What the fuck is with the vancouver stuff?
Boasting about your natural resources without a military to back them up seems foolish at best.
yes and the capability to support an invasion of the peace river or cold lake looks quite common. not. the u.s. could but somehow i doubt they'd try. would wreak hell with professional hockey.
i love the smell of gunboat diplomacy in the morning.
Gunboat diplomacy... Spot on.
what else would a military industrial complex country do, but send a "temporary" invasion force to "evacuate" US citizens after planning the operation for two weeks? I mean..telling people to get out two weeks ago in commercial flights on those people's own pocket, would invalidate the need to spend 3/4 a trillion dollars a year on weapons of destruction that result in ten times the civilian casualties as military targets, wouldn't it...BOO YAAA
This is much more interesting.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8299495/WikiLeaks-US...
Food riots my foot ! The troubles in Egypt were planned a long time ago.
Perhaps we should consider a peaceful demonstration in DC in support of our brothers and sisters in Egypt. After all, they are occupying the front lines in the fight for freedom we are all eventually going to have to fight. Bring your own bread helmet.
obummer is politically required by his "religion of peace" to enforce a shariah style of dictatorship worldwide by using the military. that's why it's happening. to overthrow democracy.
http://covert2.wordpress.com
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obummer is politically required by his "religion of peace" to enforce a shariah style of dictatorship worldwide by using the military. that's why it's happening. to overthrow democracy.
http://covert2.wordpress.com
Democracy has just become the synonym for the NWO
Those silly Egyptians thought they could have democracy without staring at the end of a M-16 rifle's barrel
You do not make a peace with gangsters. If one wants peace, gangsters must be removed from power and their security apparatus must be liquidated. Anything else, Egyptian people are losers with gangsters hunting down their opponents.
If one wants to win than learn from masters: American, French & Russian revolutionary leaders.
Ok,
enough of the BS, treaties are in place, they should be honored.
Taking out 25% of Izzys LPG, is not in Egypt's interests, nor setting up any kind of new democracy.
The Mooslim Brahood, is getting their claws into this, and the SWHTF if they gain ANY major foothold in the formation of a new government.
This is not just about Egypt, most all the countries surrounding hem have huge young people populations, with no jobs, and little to do except stir the pots, the pre-emptive ship movements is necessary, and stupid on our parts, we have many citizens there, that could not get out.
WHAT ABOUT BULLSH*T TREATIES!!!!!!!!!
WHAT ABOUT BULLSH*T TREATIES!!!!!!!!!
do you refer to the egypt-israel peace treaty? imo a major part of this mobilization is to secure israel's western flank by keeping the gaza border with egypt closed. nothing like having foreign troops operating on a nation's land to put one's sovereignty in perspective.
"we have many citizens there, that could not get out."
Most of the citizens we have there are the type that will suffer no particular discrimination from being such, i.e. dual nationality ones and folks that have gone native. So the gross numbers should be divided by oh, five, when figuring how many, at the maximum, would need urgent help to get out.
There has been a huge influx of aircraft (both fighters and cargo jets) at a certain FL AF base where Middle East operations are conducted from in the past 2 days. I can see their airspace from my house and the only other time I've seen it this busy is during the yearly air show, which isn't until November. Something is definitely about to go down.
Jacksonville NAS?
further south
One word: Suez. 2 million barrels a day going to Europe's refineries.
BTW the pipleline that esplodiated the other day in Israel supplies 1/4 of the fuel for their electricity generation.
Which would be better a) Israel securing this pipeline or b) The "international community" calming this shit?
Consider yourself unjunked.
The idiot who junked you is just that. An idiot.