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Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group in Middle East, Reagan Carrier Strike Group Begins WESTPAC Patrol
June 3, 2021 3:04 PM
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) steams ahead, followed by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force guided-missile destroyer JS Maya (DDG-179) on May 16, 2021. US Navy Photo
The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group is now operating in the Middle East after transiting the Suez Canal on Tuesday, U.S. 5th Fleet officials told USNI News.
USS
Carter Hall (LSD-50) and USS
San Antonio (LPD-17) entered the Red Sea on Tuesday with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) embarked.
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Exercise Strike Warrior 21 has provided the UK Carrier Strike Group with its final and most demanding test so far ahead of its maiden operational deployment this weekend: https://t.co/cTAeIJDvEVpic.twitter.com/wKzWdg6lzN
The operation was designed to show the aircraft can protect the warship from an air attack during a deployment.
Nato forces from Denmark, France, Germany, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and the US were involved in the drills with Australian personnel also joining.
The drills were the final tests for the new aircraft carriers before going on their inaugural deployments in the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and the Indo Pacific region, which includes India, Japan, Korea and Singapore.
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