Seriously, what's up with the naval deployments? [View All]

[Taylor Mason Powell]

I have absolutely ZERO military background, so I have no idea whether the recent naval maneuverings are unusual, or mean anything at all.

But apparently, we now have 10 Carrier Groups out at sea, leaving only 2 in port. http://www.rense.com/general53/port.htm

(Disclaimer: I pretty much loathe Rense, as one may often find at his site various paranoid anti-semitic rants, but the information in this one particular post seems to come from mostly mainstream sources.)

So I figure I can maybe take advantage of the DU Brain Trust. Can anybody with more military knowledge than me (a very lax standard indeed!) enlighten me as to how unusual this is, or does anybody have any plausible non-tinfoil explanations of this? (I already know the tinfoil ones).