US military newspaper Stars and Stripes reports that the USS Wasp and its strike group steamed away from Okinawa on Monday, heading out for its first patrol in the Indo-Pacific region since its homeporting in Japan earlier this year.
The multi-ship strike group has been sailing near Okinawa after leaving its base in Sasebo, Japan earlier this month.
The Wasp is an amphibious assault ship designed as a small aircraft carrier. It recently received a group of F-35Bs in the first official deployment of the advanced stealth fighter aboard a US Navy ship. The F-35B is the vertical takeoff, maritime version of the F-35.
The Wasp recently completed a “ready-for-sea assessment” operation during which F-35B Lightning IIs landed aboard the vessel for the first time.
“More than 2,300 members of the Okinawa-based 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit are embarked with the strike group, which includes the 844-foot Wasp, the guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey, the dock-landing ship USS Ashland and the amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay,” Stars and Stripes reported.
“During the patrol, sailors and Marines – who are trained to conduct amphibious assaults, seize airfields, reinforce embassies, evacuate civilians and respond to disasters – will learn to work together,” according to a US Navy statement.
When the first F-35B will drop into the water,that will be a wet dream…
this was the most possitive development.Asia will be the beneficiary.Unity among asian was the best course for asia.
absolutely correct
The USA is a settler state that treats impenetrable countries and cultures like ‘Indian Problems’ and thereby tries to manufacture so called democrcay in the name of war and perpetrate war crimes according to their settler instinct! The whole world must be grateful to Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz’s magnum opus ‘An Indigenous People’s History of the US’ for the revealation of bitter truths of past and present of the US.
Always will fall somebody or something into the water, but will have learning of theirs mistakes and they will continue forward.
A message to China to back off.
So long as Uncle Sam is fine, nothing else matter. Forget about democracy, Liberty, human rights, rule of law, etc. These are entrapments, a "one way" ticket to "hell on earth". A gift from USA to the "unwitting"!
My name is Mohamed Mansaray a Sierra leonean by nationality, I’m asking very kindly to please help us with a military aircraft as our forces need more equipment for there training thank you for considering me.