Business Insider
Earlier this year, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis outlined a change to the Navy’s approach to aircraft carrier deployments, mixing up when carriers leave and return to port, shortening their time at sea, and adding flexibility to where they go and what they do.
The change is meant to lessen the strain on the fleet and its personnel while keeping potential rivals in the dark about carrier movements.
This ” dynamic force employment ” was underscored by the USS Harry S. Truman’s return to Norfolk, Virginia, after a 90-day stint at sea that did not include the traditional trip to the Middle East to support US Central Command operations.
Amid that ongoing shift, the Navy is shuffling the homeport assignments for some of its carriers, as it works to keep the fleet’s centerpieces fit for a potential great-power fight.
Carrier refuelings are scheduled long in advance to ensure they’re able to remain in service for a half-century, despite heavy operational demands. The carrier fleet is a crucial piece of US strategy, which in 2018 assessed strategic rivalry from China and Russia as the country’s foremost threat.
Three of the Navy’s 11 active carriers — Nimitz-class carriers USS Carl Vinson, USS Abraham Lincoln, and USS John C. Stennis — will get new homes.
The Navy declined to say when they’ll make the move, but here’s where they’re headed:
The USS Abraham Lincoln, which is currently homeported in Norfolk, Virginia, will move to San Diego and rejoin the Pacific fleet.
The Lincoln joined the fleet in 1989 and was part of the Pacific fleet from 1990 to 2011. It moved to Norfolk from Everett, Washington, in 2011 for midlife refueling, known as reactor complex overhaul, which wrapped up in mid-2017.
Source: USNI News
With the Lincoln back on the West Coast and the Stennis and Vinson heading east, the Navy will still have five of its 10 Nimitz-class nuclear-powered carriers assigned to the Pacific Fleet.
The USS John C. Stennis will move from its current homeport at Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Washington, to Norfolk, where it will undergo midlife refueling.
I post this because these people think were idiots. These assholes are moving this shit to cater to our inner propaganda brain fart.
China and Russia are laughing their asses off when they read this shit.
Trump has nothing better to do while he sits at his desk. So he plays this crap, thinking we are going to buy it.
Trump is on the fkg take with both of these countries, what, he thinks we dont know?
For some reason, even with its glaring obviousness abound, most people don’t know. You are one of the few.
Trup is on the take off anybody who will purchase US infrastructure. Esp. China, Russia, and the Saudis..
What a horrible waste of money and resources, all for greed. This, while so many struggle and suffer. Shame!!
.
They will take the oldest ship and make it into a fals flag and they got their war.
The USS Liberty comes to mind, wonder why.