Trump Sends 2nd Aircraft Carrier to Korean Peninsula with 7,500 Marines Aboard
By Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge
Just one week after uttering his now-infamous “this is the calm before the storm” statement to the press ahead of a dinner with military leaders, we now learn that President Trump has dispatched a second nuclear aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, filled with 7,500 marines, to the Korean Peninsula. Of course, this comes after rumors swirled earlier this week that North Korea is preparing to fire multiple short-range rockets around the opening of the Chinese Communist Party’s twice-a-decade congress on Oct. 18th.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, is en route to the western Pacific after leaving San Diego port last week.
The Roosevelt will focus on maritime security operations in the Pacific and Middle East, the US military announced.
But the £3.4billion ($4.5billion) warship, known as “the Big Stick”, has been sent to boost US defence on the Korean peninsula, according to South Korean media.
It is expected to arrive in region in the coming weeks amid fears North Korea is about to test another missile or nuclear weapon.
Per the following map from Stratfor, the USS Theodore Roosevelt will join the USS Ronald Reagan which is already operating in the region.
According to a statement from Admiral Steve Koehler, a strike group commander on the ship, the Roosevelt is carrying some 7,500 sailors and marines that are “ready as a war fighting force”.
“The US Navy carrier strike group is the most versatile, capable force at sea,” he said in a statement before the ship’s launch.
“After nearly a year of training and integration exercises, the entire team is ready as a warfighting force and ready to carry out the nation’s tasking.”
Of course, as we noted above, this buildup of naval forces in the Pacific follows an ominous warning from the President last week that preceded a dinner with military leaders: ”You guys know what this represents? Maybe it’s the calm before the storm,” he said: “It could be the calm… before… the storm.”
A reporter quickly asked what the storm might be -“Is it Iran, ISIS, what’s the storm?” to which he replied… ”…you’ll find out.”
So what say you? Just more bluster from a headline seeking President and normal-ish naval patrols in the Pacific or have we reached a point of no return in an escalating conflict with a rogue North Korean leader that could turn violent at any moment?
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The carrier is being deployed to the western Pacific and the only time you would fill one with marines is if you were evacuating somewhere post haste not needing the carrier for its designated role of Aircraft Carrier. Troopships are far more flexible even the ones 50 years old in the reserve for marine use and the US has Japan as a FOB therefore could preposition stores, small ships and the marines in the region for movement to south Korea if needed anyway. What you would do is use the Carrier as support for a Marine amphibious unit which is usually the case and is more likely to be escorting pre positioned stores on Guam to south korea.
yup–this is huge if it is accurate–7500 marines on a ac carrier is a lot–the deployment of armed assets to the so pacific and alaska has been going on for over 2 months–alaska is a stepping stone to the so pacific–i think they are getting very serious–talk is cheap but troop movement speaks volumes –also hear a lot of submarines are just lying very quiet off the n korea–and and the west coast to take out the n korean subs which are noisy and we know where they are at all times—there is also a lot of other usa armed movement which cant talk about–getting close…