항공모함 칼빈슨호는 한미연합 독수리훈련에 참여한 뒤 지난 4일 싱가포르로 향했으나 다시 한국으로 방향을 돌렸다.
그 풍문에는 외국 철수 준비설 등 다양한 내용들이 담겨있다.
특히 주목할 것은 4월 북폭설이다.
일주일 전부터 인터넷에는 4월 27일 북폭설이 나돌고 있다.
미국이 4월 27일 북한 선제 타격에 나설 가능성이 크다는 주장이다.
김정은 망명 압박설도 있다.
칼빈슨호는 1982년 취항을 시작한 미국 항공모함이다.
홈기지는 미국 캘리포니아의 샌디에이고다.
승선 인원은 6062명이다.
닉네임은 황금독수리다
오사마 빈 라덴을 수장시킨 배로도 유명하다.
다음은 칼빈슨호 역사와 유래
USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) is the third United States Navy Nimitz-class supercarrier and is named after Carl Vinson, a Congressman from Georgia, in recognition of his contributions to the US Navy. The ship was launched in 1980, undertook its maiden voyage in 1983, and underwent Refueling and Overhaul between 2005 and 2009. Carl Vinson's call sign is "Gold Eagle".
Besides deployments in Operation Desert Strike, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Southern Watch, and Operation Enduring Freedom, the Carl Vinson was involved in a number of notable events. The body of Osama bin Laden was buried at sea in 2011 from the deck of the Carl Vinson, and that same year, on Veterans Day, it played host to the first NCAA basketball game on an aircraft carrier, between North Carolina and Michigan State.
President Richard Nixon, Navy Secretary John Warner and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird present Congressman Vinson (third from left) with a m
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A member of the United States House of Representatives for fifty years, Carl Vinson was, for twenty-nine years, the Chairman of the House Naval Affairs and Armed Services Committee; Vinson was the principal sponsor of the so-called "Vinson Acts," culminating in the Two-Ocean Navy Act of 1940, which provided for the massive Naval shipbuilding effort in World War II.
The seal of USS Carl Vinson shows an eagle, wings spread and talons extended, carrying a banner in its beak. The eagle is emblematic of the nation and the ship's motto, and also represents the power that resides in the ship's aircraft. The eagle flies in the form of a stylized letter "V," the initial of the ship's namesake, Congressman Carl Vinson. The "V" also represents the ship's hull when viewed bow-on. Inscribed on the banner that the eagle carries is the Latin phrase "Vis Per Mare" which means "Strength through the Sea."
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