Kirata
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ORIGINAL: InfoMan Incorrect. http://www.navy.mil/view_imagex.asp?id=234842&t=1 170408-N-HD638-152 SOUTH CHINA SEA (April 8, 2017) The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) transits the South China Sea. The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is on a regularly scheduled Western Pacific deployment as part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend the command and control functions of U.S. 3rd Fleet. U.S Navy aircraft carrier strike groups have patrolled the Indo-Asia-Pacific regularly and routinely for more than 70 years. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Matt Brown/Released) The ship was in the South China Sea on the 8th... not the Indian Ocean. It looks like you may be right. Lucy's "Defense News" link states the following: the ships were actually operating several hundred miles south of Singapore, taking part in scheduled exercises with Australian forces in the Indian Ocean. On Saturday – according to photographs released by the U.S. Navy – the carrier passed north through the Sunda Strait, the passage between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java. But according to the U.S. Navy, the Vinson wasn't anywhere near the Sunda Strait on April 15th. Release Date: 4/9/2017 12:42:00 PM USS CARL VINSON, At Sea (NNS) -- Adm. Harry Harris, commander, U.S. Pacific Command, has directed the Carl Vinson Strike Group to sail north and report on station in the Western Pacific Ocean after departing Singapore April 8. ~Source K.
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