Famously, the US does not station ships or carriers in the Pacific.
It’s why the attack on Pearl Harbor is known as such a foolishly wasted effort.
Kind of weird they moved the wreck of the USS Arizona there despite it obviously not sinking in Hawaii, though.
It’s why the attack on Pearl Harbor is known as such a foolishly wasted effort.
Kind of weird they moved the wreck of the USS Arizona there despite it obviously not sinking in Hawaii, though.
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Aaron Rupar
Sen. Tommy Tuberville: "We've gotta take the Panama Canal back. We've gotta do something because if we were to happen to go to war with China over Taiwan and they were to shut the Panama Canal down, we'd have to go 8 to 10,000 miles just to get things back to the war zone."
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Tuberville’s the T trifecta -
Racist, corrupt, dumb AF
Something about his namesake getting stuck in the Panama Canal seems so poetically stupid.
Weren’t ships, planes, & guys stationed there then?
Of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers or Ticonderoga-class cruisers, half are based in the Pacific.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Base_Guam
(also, I am begging the Navy to stop naming ships after this state and anything in it, it's cursed)
WTF are you talking about?
A Nimitz class carrier has a width of 252 ft.
(I've been in a couple of meetings with this guy. The stupid, it burns!)
But we're also in an era where if destroying it could cripple the U.S navy, missiles would do the trick.
If you gave him all day and a giant magnifying glass he couldn’t find them on a globe.
NY Godzilla
Just some crazy brainstorming...
"US Pacific Fleet"? As if!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Pacific_Fleet
We have more than one coast, folks!
Also… I doubt sending the 2nd fleet through the canal is the plan…
Even if the carrier groups fail, enemy amphibious operations turn into fish playgrounds
Except for Russia’s singular aircraft carrier.
That one hilariously has to be pulled by a tug boat and returning aircraft have a poor success rate of LANDING BACK ON THE DECK