Yup, just a drill/excercise for mine sweeping. Although this time they also decided to have a nimitz battlegroup as well and include as many nations as possible to make it the largest one ever. Plus a full compliment of AEGIS style ships for long range interdiction and the USS John C. Stennis and the USS Ponce, which just got converted into a Spec Ops mothership. Probably extend the scope of minesweeping to also include sweeping the mines out of the factories. Probably Syrian factories.
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