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4. Hormuz is increasingly irrelevant anyway.

Wed Feb 6, 2013, 07:17 PM

Feb 2013

New ports have been opened and are increasing capacity as we speak, to counter any threat to that strait.

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Budget Strains To Cut Carrier Fleet In (Persian)Gulf To 1 [View all] Purveyor Feb 2013 OP

Oh noes GeorgeGist Feb 2013 #1

cutting back on the carter-reagan doctrine madrchsod Feb 2013 #2

Considering we have air-bases in Turkey. Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia... HooptieWagon Feb 2013 #3

Hormuz is increasingly irrelevant anyway. AtheistCrusader Feb 2013 #4

More time in SD or Norfolk, HooptieWagon Feb 2013 #15

Alright, sounds reasonable, thanks. xtraxritical Feb 2013 #16

It really takes a huge amount of money to operate a carrier group at sea. HooptieWagon Feb 2013 #17

Oh goddamn! tabasco Feb 2013 #5

Great! magic59 Feb 2013 #6

Cut it to zero Sherman A1 Feb 2013 #7

I agree. HooptieWagon Feb 2013 #18

Maybe the Navy could hold a bake sale... nt Eugenian Feb 2013 #8

One carrier battle group... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2013 #9

We used Four against Iraq during Desert Strom, happyslug Feb 2013 #13

The Navy gets to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps! neverforget Feb 2013 #10

That's a start. Comrade Grumpy Feb 2013 #11

As if we don't have Iran circled already. Socal31 Feb 2013 #12