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To: Ish who wrote (38260)	4/7/2004 4:32:23 AM
From: unclewest	Respond to of 793957

Both For a while there our carriers were over-deployed and were accumulating a lot of deferred maintenance. I would think all of our carriers are back up to speed by now. At one time we had six carrier battle groups (1/2 our total) in the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea. I don't know the details of current Navy deployment but we certainly have extensive Naval support, including carrier groups, to cover the 100,000++ troops in country. Since we now own airfields in Iraq, USAF is also more readily available for troop support..