Reposted by Lazaro Gamio
It's been about 25 years since I conned a destroyer alongside an oiler, or had the deck during an UNREP, and didn't think that experience would ever be useful as a reporter. But given the situation now in Fifth Fleet, it came in handy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Inside Supplying U.S. Warships During the Iran War
Iranian attacks have upended the Navy’s supply chain in the Middle East, causing a strain on the aircraft carriers, destroyers and amphibious ships that are being kept in the region indefinitely.