Il Battle group of the aircraft carrier 'Harry S. Truman' is in the Red Sea and is already in position (not optimal) to conduct the first raids against the Islamic State terrorist group in Iraq and Syria. The deployment of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier had been scheduled for more than a year.
The Gulf area should have received a carrier within the first three months of the 2016. The Paris attacks changed the Pentagon's plans.
La Truman will remain in service for seven months. The Battle group he left Norfolk the 16 last November, in Virginia. There Truman could be in optimal attack position between 48 hours.
The Group is composed of the Seventh Carrier Air Wing Squadron, from the 28 ° Destroyer Squadron, from the class launcher cruiser Ticonderoga USS Anzio, from the class missile destroyers Arleigh A. Burke, USS Bulkeley, USS Gravely and USS Gonzalez and two class attack submarines Los Angeles.
(photo: US Navy)
