Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!military From: nelson@ee.udel.edu (Mark Nelson) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: US Naval Forces in Gulf, Air Nat'l Gaurd units. Message-ID: <1990Aug14.034518.10701@cbnews.att.com> Date: 14 Aug 90 03:45:18 GMT References: <1990Aug11.015150.19844@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 26 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Mark Nelson In article <1990Aug11.015150.19844@cbnews.att.com> nak%archie@att.att.com (Neil A Kirby) writes: > >To follow up a previous post about what US Naval forces are near/headed >towards the gulf: ... > South of the Suez canal, the Eisenhower Battle group: > Carrier Eisenhower > 5 other ships including 3 destroyers According to the Wilmington (DE) News-Journal 8/9 , the Eisenhower's battle group includes the (original) Aegis cruiser, Ticonderoga. Unfortunately, they didn't give any sources for their information. Also, according to CNN, another carrier battle group is headed toward the gulf, the JFK (unless my memory is playing tricks on me) plus ten unspecified escorts. -- Mark Nelson ...!uunet!udel!nelson or nelson@udel.edu This function is occasionally useful as an argument to other functions that require functions as arguments. -- Guy Steele, Jr.