US Hits 70% Vaccination Rate Group with Missiles
FACES MILITARY OLYMPICS A look at notable Taliban press Biles takes bronze videos from 40 ahead with gains in in balance beam years of MTV south Afghanistan in her return Page 14 Page 5 Page 24 Landlords and tenants fill courts as eviction moratorium ends ›› Page 6 stripes.com Volume 80 Edition 78 ©SS 2021 WEDNESDAY,AUGUST 4, 2021 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas VIRUS OUTBREAK Carl Vinson strike group deploys with F-35C fighters BY WYATT OLSON Stars and Stripes The USS Carl Vinson and its strike group steamed from San Diego on Monday, marking the first time that a carrier strike group is deploying with F-35C Lightning II fighter jets and Navy CMV-22B Osprey aboard, the Na- vy said. The carrier completed a 17- month upgrade late last summer so it could support F-35s, the new- est generation of fighter jet, as well as Ospreys, the tiltrotor air- craft that can land vertically like a helicopter and fly like a fixed- wing plane. The fifth-generation F-35C is the carrier version of the stealth fighter that costs $94.4 million each, according to the Navy. Air superiority is its role. The CMV-22B Osprey is the replace- ment for the fixed wing C-2A Greyhound, a logistics workhouse that delivers people, mail and car- ROGELIO V. SOLIS/AP go from shore to ship. Timontre Graham, 21, a senior at Jackson State University and defensive lineman with the school’s football team, receives his COVID-19 The strike group trained near vaccination at the Rose E.
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