Sunday, October 22, 2023

Eisenhower Eyes Persian Gulf's Iran In USA and Israel Defense

 Nadene Goldfoot                                          

    The USA ship, Eisenhower, sails to the Persian Gulf to guard Iran's activities.  Iran has been working constantly on nuclear power for themselves.  They have constantly threatened Israel and supply terrorists against Israel such as Hamas and Hezbollah.  Terrorists are considered the arm of Iran.   The other USA ship sits in the Mediterranean Sea and has already by threatened by Iranian shelling from Yemen, another Iranian arm.                          
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier currently in service with the United States Navy. Commissioned in 1977, the ship is the second of the ten Nimitz-class aircraft carriers currently in service, and is the first ship named after the 34th President of the United States and General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower.     

 It is the Navy's finest 5-star aircraft carrier! USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), which  provides a wide range of flexible mission capabilities, to include maritime security operations, expeditionary power projection, forward naval presence, crisis response, sea control, deterrence, counter-terrorism, information operations, security cooperation and counter-proliferation.  USS Dwight D. Eisenhower is the flagship for Commander, Carrier Strike Group (CCSG) 2 .  


                                                                    

On 14 October 2023, Lloyd Austin, US Sec. of Defense,  directed Dwight D. Eisenhower and her carrier strike group, which includes the cruiser Philippine Sea, and destroyers LaboonMason and Gravely, to the eastern Mediterranean in response to Israel's war with Hamas. This is the second carrier strike group to be sent to the region in response to the conflict, following Gerald R. Ford and her group, which was dispatched only six days earlier. 

Resource:

https://apnews.com/article/yemen-navy-warship-missiles-intercepted-2f5fc9c8a3737f762b29d5c53ec08a5b 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin                                                                    





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