I still wonder if this is considered a cushier, more desirable deployment by very many navy sailors. The facilities have to be pretty nice, and the mission is routine.
Whereas the eastern Med probably has nicer weather, but right now they're probably a lot busier, since there's rockets flying around nearby and important shit to do. But maybe it's nicer being busy with something important?
They're out there as a show of force. I doubt much more activity than usual is going on for the rank and file sailors.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The aircraft carrier is to stay in Busan until next Monday as part of a bilateral agreement to enhance “regular visibility” of U.S. strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula in response to North Korea’s advancing nuclear program, according to an earlier Defense Ministry statement.
It’s the first arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier in South Korea in six months since the USS Nimitz docked at Busan in late March, the statement said.
The arrival of the USS Ronald Reagan is expected to enrage North Korea, which views the deployment of such a powerful U.S. military asset as a major security threat.
Such concerns flared after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited Russia’s Far East last month to meet President Vladimir Putin and inspect key weapons-making facilities.
Kim also hoped that the Russian people would defeat “the imperialists’ persistent hegemonic policy and moves to isolate and stifle Russia,” according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
Putin, for his part, told Kim in his message that he was satisfied with the fact that bilateral ties continue to positively develop in all aspects, KCNA said.
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