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Rear Adm. Michael ‘Buzz’ Donnelly, who took leadership of Carrier Strike Group 5 and Task Force 70, is no stranger to 7th Fleet or the USS Ronald Reagan.

The move to send “The Gipper” to the Middle East region has been seen as controversial. Later this summer, the U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), will be making a rare deployment to the Middle East in support of the U.S. withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan. The Navy announced that the carrier, which is homeported in Yokosuka, Japan, would begin the deployment in the coming weeks. That mission will leave no U.S. carrier in the Asia-Pacific region for an unknown period of time. However, the U.S. Seventh Fleet, which is based in Japan, would s...

In recent days, both Beijing and Moscow have goaded Biden with aggressive military exercises, with Chinese warplanes encroaching on Taiwan and Russian bombers flying off Hawaii.

In addition to aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, CSG 5 consists of aircraft from the embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67), the Henry J. Kaiser-class underway replenishment oiler USNS Pecos (T-AO 197), and the Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Charles Drew (T-AKE 10). CSG 5 operated in international waters with JMSDF’s Hyuga-class helicopter destroyer JS Ise (DDH 182) to exercise maritime maneuvers, strengthen the U.S.-Japan alliance, and improve regional security. “Operating at sea with our allies in the JMSDF ensures we ...