Carl Vinson Strike Group Preps To Deploy West
November 30 2010
USA
The aircraft carrier Carl Vinson is scheduled to leave San Diego on Tuesday for a final training exercise and the beginning of a seven-month scheduled deployment to the western Pacific and Persian Gulf, the Navy Times reports.
The carrier will be accompanied by the cruiser Bunker Hill and the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers Stockdale and Gridley, as well as Carrier Air Wing 17, said Third Fleet officials.
The deployment will include theater security cooperation and maritime...
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