Task and Purpose – March 22, 2025
USS Carl Vinson (background). Click to enlarge
The U.S. military is sending the USS Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group to the Middle East, as fighting with Houthi forces around Yemen reignites after a two-month pause.
According to reporting from the Associated Press, the USS Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group will end its current deployment in east Asia in the 7th Fleet’s area of responsibility and head to the waters around Yemen. That will bolster American force projection in the region, as the ships will be joining the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group in the fight against Houthi forces around Yemen. That carrier group’s deployment to the Middle East has extended another month, according to the Associated Press.
The dual carrier deployment comes a week into renewed fighting between U.S. forces and the Houthis, a religious and Yemeni nationalist group that controls much of Yemen, including the capital city. Since October 2023, the group has launched rockets and drones at commercial ships passing through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, in response to Israel’s war in Gaza. The U.S. Navy and Air Force have repeatedly intercepted those munitions and carried out bombing campaigns on Houthi-controlled areas. After a ceasefire was signed in January, the Houthis halted their attacks and the U.S. in turn stopped strikes on Yemen. That ended last weekend when the Truman Carrier Strike Group launched attacks on Yemen in response to the Houthis saying they would renew actions in the Red Sea.
The Carl Vinson and its ships are expected to take two-three weeks to arrive in the Middle East.
The last time two carrier strike groups were in the CENTCOM area of responsibility was in September. In August, previous Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln and its support ships to “accelerate” to the Middle East to join the USS Theodore Roosevelt Strike Group as a deterrent to Iranian strikes against Israel after the latter carried out strikes in Lebanon and and Iran. The expanded naval presence was part of a wider increase in American military projection to the region. The Roosevelt and its strike group left in September.
Along with its namesake carrier, the Vinson Carrier Strike Group includes a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser and two Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers, in addition to the aircraft that make up Carrier Air Wing 2.
The Vinson and its strike group has been in the waters around the Korean Peninsula in recent weeks, visiting Busan and conducting drills and exercises with the Republic of Korea Navy, and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force following recent missile tests by North Korea.
The Truman Carrier Strike Group entered the 5th Fleet’s domain in December to support the fight against the Houthis and saw extensive action in the last weeks of 2024. It briefly left the Middle East for a port visit to Greece for repairs from a collision with a merchant ship, but has been back in the Red Sea. Its deployment was originally set to end at the end of this month. Fighters from Carrier Air Wing 1 took part in the newest strikes on Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen this month.
In the previous months-long engagement against the Houthis, the U.S. Navy expended more than 400 munitions and sent multiple carrier groups and independent ships to the area around Yemen. President Donald Trump has pledged to “completely annihilate” the Houthis in this latest fight, but a Pentagon spokesman has said that the now week-long conflict is “not an endless offensive.”
GB News presenter Adam Brooks has refused to fight on the front line if Sir Keir Starmer involves UK in the Russian-Ukraine war. British citizens up and down the country are voicing their refusal to fight, the people were caught out with Tony Blairs lies which killed a million iraqis and the concerns about the growing tensions between the two countries. As the war rages on, almost all Brits have emphasised their unwillingness to participate in a potential conflict in Ukraine.
They say brits have to choose between eating or heating, yet Starmer has money for
another needless war ?
Ukraine is sod all to do with us, and if we needed to get involved we should be helping
palestine against the jew
Why will Carl Jones never get piles ?
because hes the perfect arsole !!!
“No more wars” or something of the sort. LOL. He’d have got 100% of the vote if he’d switched that with “free porn and fries”.
More gun fodder for the Houts……..lovely rocket targets.
The Jew-USA is determined to get its ships sunk in defense of Satanic, Genocidal Israel.
Trump is a Butt-Boy for Jewry.
“engage with Iranian-backed Houthis”
First of all not Houthis but YEMENIS
And then I don’t understand why thetruthseeker provides such captions, they don’t write e.g. “engage with jewnited states-backed herzlerits(instead of jews)” do they? The question arises quite naturally: where the hell thetruthseeker stands?
Why would The US need carrier strike groups when they have so many military bases dotted around the place?
Is it because Arab governments on whose territory the bases are on don’t want them attacking Yemen or Iran?
Check out that old rust bucket 🪣. Doesn’t the Navy believe in chipping and painting anymore? And it’s going to war? LOL. A sitting duck for sure. The Yemen rebels will have a field day with that old tin can.
The Vinson was launhed in 1980; making it 45 years old and senile. Street whores hold up better.
Any how, here are the specs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Carl_Vinson
President Tango is wearing no clothes..
That should do it, sending a giant floating gay bathhouse chock full of faggots dreaming about their turn at the glory-hole as felch drips out of the dick-holsters that double as their poop-chutes. What the f*ck is the goal of that mission, to give the Houthis herpes?
What a derelict looking ship, like street-shitters bent double in opioid shuffle on some Philadelphia downtown block.
The stealth paint has worn off, they hope the Houthis will feel sorry for them and spare the better quality missiles, why waste good hypersonics on a trash barge like that.
The ship of drools, the empire of the debt slaves dancing to the demonic Fiddler on the Roof.