Posted on Apr 1, 2022
82nd Airborne, Truman carrier strike group deployments extended
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
..."The Truman, its airwing and the destroyers and cruiser in the group have been operating in the Adriatric and Aegan seas, and flying air policing missions in NATO member airspace to bolster the alliances eastern flank for several weeks.
And as the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the north and east continues, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin thinks that’s exactly where the Truman group needs to stay for now.
“He has made — he reviews the posture, literally every day,” the Pentagon’s top spokesman, John Kirby, said Thursday evening. “And he has decided that the Harry S. Truman and her strike group will stay in the Med for a while longer.”
Kirby did not say how long the Truman group, or recently deployed soldiers of the 82nd Airborne, would remain in the region."...
..."The Truman, its airwing and the destroyers and cruiser in the group have been operating in the Adriatric and Aegan seas, and flying air policing missions in NATO member airspace to bolster the alliances eastern flank for several weeks.
And as the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the north and east continues, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin thinks that’s exactly where the Truman group needs to stay for now.
“He has made — he reviews the posture, literally every day,” the Pentagon’s top spokesman, John Kirby, said Thursday evening. “And he has decided that the Harry S. Truman and her strike group will stay in the Med for a while longer.”
Kirby did not say how long the Truman group, or recently deployed soldiers of the 82nd Airborne, would remain in the region."...
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