Excuse me: Do you know where my carrier task force is today.

It is scary that the President, White House Press Secretary, and people at the Department of Defense said that the carrier CarlVinson was in route to the Sea of Japan as a message of strength to the North Koreans when the carrier task force actually journeyed to link up with the Australian fleet in the Indian Ocean. Now one of two things happened here and neither one of them are good. The first thing is the Joint Chiefs decided to deceive and embarrass the President and the Secretary of Defense and that is not good for the chain of command. The second possibility is that this was an act of sheer incompetence and lack of oversight. Again, either possibility is cause for concern and us as a country should hope that any gaps in communication get straightened out so these public relations mishaps do not occur again.