Captain Jim Fennell

And so the mission is to take the gun away from the Iranian regime.

George H.W.

Bush completed its basic final phase of its training.

And on the 5th of March, pulled into Norfolk, it certainly reloaded fuel and ammunition for not just the carrier, but the strike group.

And there's indication that she's already leaving or has already left Norfolk and is making the transit.

It's about a four or five day transit across the Atlantic, very small compared to the Pacific.

And so that'll add a third carrier.

And I'll just remind folks in Desert Storm, we had six carrier battle groups

operating for Desert Storm.

In OEF, we had five carrier strike groups.

So just adding a third one is really about bringing in more of that ordnance that's using the Mark series, the Dumb Bomb series with the fusing and the fins in the back that give us the precision strike.

So we don't have to use the high-end, high-demand, low-density interceptors and other kind of missiles that are

were discussed on Friday in Washington.

So it's this idea of moving from standoff to stand-in weapons.

It's planned, it was understood, and the Bush will bring a lot more punch to the fight with that from the Eastern Med, while the Ford and the Lincoln now can combine their carrier strike groups

And now those 16 destroyers that are with it can now start to work on how are we going to open up the Strait and provide some kind of escort plan.

We're not going to escort ship by ship, but we'll maybe do something like we did in 87 where we had baskets and we had ships on station in those baskets.

As we get further along in that grinding down the Iranian naval threats to naval shipping.

Well, you know, the Brits were, and it's coming out this weekend, that actually the U.S.

approached the British three weeks before the bombing struck to say, this is what we're thinking of doing and we would like to coordinate with you, our ally, and let's work together on it.