Topic: - on September 5, 2002 at 3:46:40 AM CEST
Pentagon: Tanks Heading to Gulf for Exercises
The U.S. Navy has booked a ship to carry tanks and heavy armor to the Gulf this month, but the Pentagon said on Wednesday the equipment was for use in a long-planned military exercise in Kuwait. Shipping sources said the U.S. Military Sealift Command (MSC) had chartered a U.S.-flagged general cargo ship to sail from the southeast U.S. coast to an unspecified Middle Eastern port in the Gulf for discharge in late September.
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