{"id":3305,"date":"2018-04-11T22:24:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2018-04-11T23:55:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T23:55:47","slug":"uss-harry-s-truman-and-5-destroyers-deploying-to-eastern-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/11\/uss-harry-s-truman-and-5-destroyers-deploying-to-eastern-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"USS HARRY S.TRUMAN AND 5 DESTROYERS DEPLOYING TO EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/USS_Harry_Truman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3306\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/USS_Harry_Truman-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/USS_Harry_Truman-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/USS_Harry_Truman-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/USS_Harry_Truman-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/USS_Harry_Truman-560x365.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/USS_Harry_Truman-260x169.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/USS_Harry_Truman-160x104.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/USS_Harry_Truman.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Naval Today<\/p>\n<p>US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and its associated carrier strike group are getting underway from Norfolk on Wednesday to start a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea and\u00a0Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Ships accompanying the aircraft carrier include\u00a0guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60),\u00a0guided-missile destroyers\u00a0USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51), USS Bulkeley (DDG 84), USS Forrest Sherman (DDG 98) and USS Farragut (DDG 99).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to US Navy ships, the group will be joined by German air defense frigate FGS Hessen for the first half of the deployment.<\/p>\n<p>Guided-missile destroyers USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) and USS The Sullivans (DDG 68) will join the strike group at a future date.<\/p>\n<p>While deployed, the strike group will operate in the US 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility conducting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier strike group is slated to replace the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Med after it completed four months of operations in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Naval Today US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and its associated carrier strike group are getting underway from Norfolk on Wednesday to start a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea and\u00a0Middle East. Ships accompanying the aircraft carrier include\u00a0guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60),\u00a0guided-missile destroyers\u00a0USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51), USS Bulkeley (DDG 84), USS&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/11\/uss-harry-s-truman-and-5-destroyers-deploying-to-eastern-mediterranean\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USS HARRY S.TRUMAN AND 5 DESTROYERS DEPLOYING TO EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[47,506],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-us-navy","tag-uss-harry-s-truman","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3307,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions\/3307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}