Singapore to base US Navy's Indo-Pacific Command's new First Fleet?

[DOBIEMKZ]

3 minutes ago, Arogab said:

Wah Lao, it is one and only time someone ever pointed a gun at me and at such distance. And we did discuss after that, we have 3 x 20 liters of petrol as spares right at the front of the boat. What if they really open fire. It is obvious we are a fishing boat but there are some people who will think more than that and they will claim they have the right to shoot.

So what is good about having these ships here?

I share the same sentiment as you.

No good to have us navy's ships based here; short term stop-over for just one or two ships i think is okay.

Basing several of their ships here is like having a cancerous tumour in our body.

[Arogab]

33 minutes ago, DOBIEMKZ said:

I share the same sentiment as you.

No good to have us navy's ships based here; short term stop-over for just one or two ships i think is okay.

Basing several of their ships here is like having a cancerous tumour in our body.

Well, let's hope our G has the theory that we can sleep with anyone but better on the same bed and get crushed later. 

[D3badge]

2 hours ago, Beregond said:

Look at the damage done by  US  forces in korea bases. all the chemical dump into the ground, leakage into the river. etc etc

Look at the number of accident cause by US  equipment in japan. the social problem cause by US soldiers in japan. 

Look at the record of conflict cause by US soldiers around the world.

The worst thing is they just suffer a defeat in afghanistan, and they make alot of enemy there. Suddenly their soldiers come to our shore? Are we inviting US  enemy to strike at US forces on SG ground???

Ok some ppl argue US  soldiers are here to protect us from some imagine threat , ok lets say the worst really come.

Look at afghanistan and syria , the first 1 to run will be US  soldiers. Does any 1 really think they will die here for our cause😅

 

big picture big picture then we will have free aircraft carrier 😂 like taliban got free super puma 🤣🤣🤣

[Beregond]

13 minutes ago, D3badge said:

big picture big picture then we will have free aircraft carrier 😂 like taliban got free super puma 🤣🤣🤣

no joke the last thing u want is US  soldiers running havoc around our island.

if u do ict navy base def. u will know what the behavours of their sailors is like......... 😖 

[Arogab]

4 minutes ago, happy_man said:

And that happened within SG territorial water by armed foreign forces ? 🙄

Just outside Sembawang Shipyard and the SAF Yacht Club. When we go in and out for fishing, boats have to pass there as we head towards Tekong and coming back. 

I was regular angler at least once a week from 1998 to 2005 before I started my career in China. And it happen after 911 at one of the night we coming back

[DOBIEMKZ]

48 minutes ago, D3badge said:

big picture big picture then we will have free aircraft carrier 😂 like taliban got free super puma 🤣🤣🤣

They managed to get a Super Puma !?😮

[Watwheels]

On 9/14/2021 at 11:50 AM, DOBIEMKZ said:

The Navy's Indo-Pacific Command Needs a New Fleet But Where to Dock It?
Based out of Hawaii, Indo-Pacific Command is the largest combat command in terms of area covered and is vital to American and allied interests. The challenges in the region are enormous.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/navys-indo-pacific-command-needs-new-fleet-where-dock-it-185442

Here's What You Need to Remember: In comments delivered during the annual Naval Submarine League symposium, held online this year on account of the global pandemic, Secretary of the Navy Braithwaite explained what the driving force behind the idea of a new Navy fleet is, stating that “the Chinese have shown their aggressiveness around the globe. Having just come from the High North, Chinese presence in the Arctic is unprecedented.”

The United States Secretary of the Navy, Kenneth J. Braithwaite, wants the Navy to stand up a new fleet, the Navy reported. The new fleet, which would be the United States’ eighth, would help bolster the United States Indo-Pacific Command.

Based out of Hawaii, Indo-Pacific Command, or USINDOPACOM, is the largest combat command in terms of area covered and is vital to American and allied interests. The challenges in the region are enormous.

In addition to containing 50% of the global population, the area covered by USINDOPACOM includes the world’s biggest democracy (India), the most populous country (China), and the world’s largest Muslim-majority country (Indonesia), as well as nine out of the world’s ten largest seaports, and the busiest maritime shipping lanes. As if that were not enough, five of the world’s nuclear powers are in the region, as well as seven of the world’s ten largest militaries, underscoring the region’s global importance.

China, China, China

In comments delivered during the annual Naval Submarine League symposium, held online this year on account of the global pandemic, Secretary of the Navy Braithwaite explained what the driving force behind the idea of a new Navy fleet is, stating that “the Chinese have shown their aggressiveness around the globe. Having just come from the High North, Chinese presence in the Arctic is unprecedented.”

Braithwaite further explained how concerns about China are not due to American fear-mongering, relating the concerns expressed during a trip to Asia, where “every single one of our allies and partners is concerned about how aggressive the Chinese have been. I would argue with anybody that not since the War of 1812 has the United States and our sovereignty been under the kind of pressures that we see today.”

Existing fleets are insufficient to meet this challenge. “We can’t just rely on the 7th Fleet in Japan. We have to look to our other allies and partners like Singapore, like India, and actually put a numbered fleet where it would be extremely relevant if, God forbid, we were to ever get in any kind of a dust-up,” Braithwaite explained.

Singapore

The Navy’s 7th Fleet covers most of the western Pacific, from the International Dateline to the Indian Ocean, and though the San Diego-based 3rd Fleet has sometimes supported the 7th Fleet, a new 1st Fleet would greatly alleviate the burden placed on both. But where would the new 1st Fleet be stationed? Lion City, perhaps.

“So we’re going to create the First Fleet, and we’re going to put it, if not Singapore right out of the chocks, we’re going to look to make it more expeditionary-oriented and move it across the Pacific until it is where our allies and partners see that it could best assist them as well as to assist us.”

The U.S. Navy has had a presence in Singapore since the early 1990s when an agreement was signed with the Singapore Navy to use Changi Naval Base facilities. It’s a prime piece of real estate.

Though significantly farther from China than Okinawa or mainland Japan, it is not far from China’s so-called nine-dash line, an expansive but unrecognized area in the South China Sea claimed by China. Regional proximity to this area would clearly benefit not just the United States but American allies as well.

Postscript

Many, many details have yet to be made public, though Braithwaite said that the former Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper had been informed and was in agreement. Watch this topic for further future information.
 

Why do you think he's here to visit?

Must be here to find out more.

https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/wang-yi-visit-singapore-pledges-work-china-amid-us-overtures

Wang Yi visit: Singapore pledges to work with China amid US overtures

[Kklim]

5 hours ago, Nolicense said:

that woman has no charm. off putting maybe

Least popular US VP ever

[D3badge]

6 hours ago, DOBIEMKZ said:

They managed to get a Super Puma !?😮

https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000611000313/Taliban-Hlds-Miliary-Parade-in-Kandahar-Shwing-Off-Seized-US-Made

https://news.sky.com/story/afghanistan-the-weapons-left-behind-to-the-taliban-and-what-it-means-for-the-countrys-future-12397547

https://indianewsrepublic.com/captured-from-multiple-angles-the-taliban-showcase-american-weapons-in-a-mega-military-parade/444592/

opps is black hawk helicopter ! used to sitting in super puma so say super puma hahah

Edited September 15, 2021 by D3badge

[Playtime]

11 hours ago, inlinesix said:

That time, we have a not so clever ambassador that argue publicly with Global Times 胡總

more like we had a PM that was really trash talking like he was LKY reborn ......... except he didnt have LKY credentials in peoples eyes.

[inlinesix]

13 minutes ago, Playtime said:

more like we had a PM that was really trash talking like he was LKY reborn ......... except he didnt have LKY credentials in peoples eyes.

After PM trash talking, ambassador should have clear shit.

Instead, Ambassador created more shits

[D3badge]

On 9/15/2021 at 9:31 PM, inlinesix said:

After PM trash talking, ambassador should have clear shit.

Instead, Ambassador created more shits

@inlinesix like what? Foreign minister say people uneducated and come from lousy school?😂

[Playtime]

9 minutes ago, D3badge said:

@inlinesix like what? Foreign minister say people uneducated and come from lousy school?😂

Well... the fella saying baa baa black sheep to VP Kamala Harris must be from special school... 

[Volvobrick]

42 minutes ago, D3badge said:

@inlinesix like what? Foreign minister say people uneducated and come from lousy school?😂

Only behind their backs or "in private"..... 

No balls to say openly. 

Edited September 18, 2021 by Volvobrick