Defense Secretary Gates just announced that two amphibious US assault ships were loaded and bound to Libya. One ship is the USS Kearsarge that had previously been deployed in the Red Sea. Hopefully it scares the hell out of Qaddafi ...
USS Ponce and USS Kearsarge are enroute to Libya. Navy Times says, “Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered the Kearsarge and the amphibious transport dock Ponce to move from the U.S. Central Command region into the Mediterranean Sea to ...
"The USS Kearsarge and the USS Ponce entered the Suez Canal from the southern entrance at 3pm today (AEDT) and are making their way to the Mediterranean sea," a canal authority official said. On average it takes 12 to 14 hours for a ...