WWIII Watch: US Dispatches Second Carrier Group to Eastern Mediterranean Sea
The USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group left Norfolk Naval base this weekend headed to the eastern Mediterranean Sea to join the USS Ford Carrier Strike Group in a show of force by the US as part of a stated effort to deter a widening in the Middle East of the war between Israel and Gaza in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attack massacre of Israelis last weekend. The deployment of the Ike to the Med was scheduled before the Hamas attack, but Austin’s statement of purpose makes its war footing mission official.
NORFOLK, Va. – The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike) deploys from Naval Station Norfolk, Oct. 14, 2023. The Ike Carrier Strike Group will conduct a regularly scheduled deployment to the U.S. » READ MORE
