Placement of two aircraft carrier battle groups in the same area is the rare and occurs when the tension in the Persian Gulf-related increase Iran's nuclear program.
Group of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier battle, the USS Enterprise, is reported to have arrived in the Persian Gulf region to strengthen the aircraft carrier battle groups USS Abraham Lincoln who arrived first.
Commander (Lieutenant Colonel equivalent) Amy Derrick-Frost of the fifth fleet in Bahrain said the U.S. Navy, during the last 10 years, has four times the U.S. placed two aircraft carriers as well as in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea.
Prior to this, two aircraft carriers stationed in the area in March 2003, when the U.S. and its allies invaded Iraq, then in February 2007 to support the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the last in June 2010.
Derrick-Frost asserted, the assignment of the USS Enterprise and USS Abraham Lincoln is something that is "routine" and was not done because there is a specific threat. The ships were, among others, will support U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and conduct anti-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia and the Gulf of Aden.
Giant war ships will also be patrolling the strategic shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz, which had threatened to be closed by Iran in retaliation for economic sanctions from the West.
This is the last mission of the USS Enterprise, first nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and the longest in the ranks of the U.S. aircraft carrier. The ship was operated since November 1961 and is scheduled to be retired later this year.
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