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Thursday, January 04, 2007

Second Carrier to Deploy to the Persian Gulf

The Reuters news agency is reporting that the USS John C. Stennis will soon join the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Persian Gulf. According to anonymous sources this is at the request of US Central Command and is designed as a show of force to Iran and Syria.

You can read the complete story at:

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-01-03T214012Z_01_N03190103_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-GULF-NAVY.xml&src=rss

Thanks to Chris Corley via the Milcom newsgroup for this heads up. And remember if you have something to share with the blog and our readers, please send it along to larryvanhorn @ monitoringtimes.com.

US Navy Photo: VFA-146 F/A-18 side number 307 flies over the USS John C. Stennis.

AWACS - A Team Effort

There is an interesting feature story on the key members of an USAF AWACS crew at the link below. The story is built around the deployment of the 964th Expeditionary Airborne Air Control Squadron to the Manta Forward Operating Location in Ecuador in support of counter narco operations. You can read the story at http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123035975

Photo: Tech. Sgt. Erich Ross runs through operational checklists during an E-3 Sentry mission Dec. 21 over Ecuador. Sergeant Ross is a flight engineer with the 964th Expeditionary Airborne Air Control Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/2nd Lt. Amber Balken)

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