News US Navy resurrects Second Fleet in Atlantic to counter Russia

[Notebook]

News here, is it a surprise in the US?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44014761

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[Urwumpe]

What?

Are the Russians missing a submarine?

 

[Andy44]

American news outlets don't report stuff like this, not in the headlines, anyway. Wheh it does make the newspaper (for those that still read such) it winds up on page 4 or 5.

They are too concerned with politics and which hat Kanye West is wearing today.

 

[Notebook]

Kanye West has a hat?

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[boogabooga]

It's news to me that any fleets were disbanded in 2011.

So wait, we've had no Navy presence in the Atlantic for 7 years?

 

[Urwumpe]

So wait, we've had no Navy presence in the Atlantic for 7 years?

No, there was Taskforce 20 around covering the same part of the ocean. But there was really no Second Fleet in the Atlantic, because the USA focussed stronger against China.

 

[Notebook]

The USS George HW Bush was here last year for exercises.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4115153/us-navy-aircraft-carrier-uss-george-bush-solent-aircraft-crew/

Also the USS Donald Cook

https://navaltoday.com/2017/02/23/us-navy-destroyer-arrives-in-plymouth-uk-for-fost-certification/

Could be just passing through to the Mediterranean.

Nato ships are often in the news here when visiting ports.

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