Sometime this spring, the U.S. Navy will have to settle with just one carrier strike group in either the Pacific or Middle East as another carrier gap looms.
By U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Kevin Eichelberger [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
To mitigate that, Navy planners are toying with the idea of either extending the deployment of Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group by one extra month or to curtail the ongoing maintenance of USS Ronald Reagan in Japan.