The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and its escort of warships have reached the Arabian Sea, amid a campaign of U.S. strikes on Yemen, and threats of a confrontation with Iran.
Earlier this month, Pentagon press secretary Sean Parnell announced the Vinson Carrier Strike Group had departed from the Indo-Pacific region, to assist in the U.S. Central Command area of operations across the Middle East.
Carl Vinson quickly made its presence known by joining with the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in launching air strikes on Yemen’s Houthis, an Iran-linked faction that the Trump administration recently redesignated as a terrorist organization….