US Has No Current Aircraft Carrier Presence In The Medietteranian

French Aircraft Carrier Charles de Gaulle (R91)/US Navy photo

Currently the US Navy has no aircraft carrier presence in the Mediterranean and currently it doesn't look like they have any intention of doing so, the latest information has the USS Enterprise, CVN-65 is moving eastward away from Libya in route to join the USS Carl Vinson, CVN-70 off the coast of Afghanistan, and of course we have the USS Ronald Reagan CVN-76 and USS George Washington CVN-73 assisting with the Japan disaster, so the United States will be relying a lot of shore based air assests and Tomahawk missiles.

However one asset the United States Navy does have in the area with the capability of acting as a small aircraft carrier is the USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) which is an amphibious assault ship with the capability to carry 22 V-22 Osprey vertical landing and take off aircraft as well as 5 × AV-8B Harrier II V/STOL attack jets and 6 × SH-60F/HH-60H ASW helicopters.

USS Kearsarge (LHD 3)/Photo US Navy

Lastly though the US has no aircraft carrier presence the French military announced that their aircraft carrier
Charles de Gaulle (R91) will be present in the area today.