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Date: April 3, 2007 11:31:16 AM PDT
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Subject: Nimitz Strike Group En Route to Persian Gulf
USS Nimitz, Other Warships
Leave San Diego for the Persian Gulf
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/04/03/news/sandiego/
16_55_074_2_07.txt
SAN DIEGO - The USS Nimitz and several other American warships left
San Diego today for the Persian Gulf to join another locally based
aircraft carrier strike group already in the region.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will join the San Diego-based
John C. Stennis Strike Group and relieve the USS Dwight D.
Eisenhower, according to Naval Air Forces Public Affairs.
Military officials said in a statement that the two-carrier
presence in the Persian Gulf area is intended to demonstrate U.S.
"resolve to build regional security and bring long-term stability
to the region."
The Nimitz's departure comes amid heightened tensions in the region
following the detention of 15 British sailors and marines by Iran.
Iran maintains the detainees were operating in its territorial
waters, a charge the British government denies.
President Bush ratcheted up the rhetoric over the weekend, calling
the detainees "hostages" -- a term not even the British had used.
The tension over the detainees coincides with international
pressure on Iran to give up its uranium enrichment program, which
it maintains is strictly for peaceful purposes. The United States
and other nations fear Iran is working toward the development of
nuclear weapons.
The Nimitz will support the war on terrorism, patrol the Horn of
Africa and conduct marine security operations as part of the larger
effort to "deter and dissuade others from acting counter to U.S.
national interests," according to a Navy statement.
Accompanied by his family at Naval Air Station North Island this
morning, a sailor preparing for his fifth deployment said the
departures aren't getting any easier for his three young daughters
-- a 22-month-old, a 3-year- old and a 5-year-old.
"It seems to be getting a bit harder because they're all older and
they seem to know that something's going on ... Daddy's not going
to be around," he said.
"You just tell them every night, you know, Daddy's trying to keep
us safe," the sailor's wife said, adding the family corresponds
overseas via e- mail and video teleconference.
The Nimitz Strike Group comprises the guided-missile cruiser
Princeton, four guided-missile destroyers the Higgins, Chafee, John
Paul Jones and Pinckney, two helicopter squadrons and an explosive
ordnance disposal unit.
The Stennis and its strike group left Naval Base Coronado on Jan.
20. It is the largest carrier presence in the Persian Gulf since
the start of the war in Iraq
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