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In Bahrain, the U.S. and EU have taken a soft-gloved approach to the brutal repression -- a reticence apparently induced by the Fifth Fleet's base in the country and the Saudi government's horror at a democratic movement next door.

Rahim Kanani: Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, on the State and Future of Human Rights Philanthropy and Policy Rahim Kanani 2011

In Bahrain, the U.S. and EU have taken a soft-gloved approach to the brutal repression -- a reticence apparently induced by the Fifth Fleet's base in the country and the Saudi government's horror at a democratic movement next door.

Rahim Kanani: Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, on the State and Future of Human Rights Philanthropy and Policy Rahim Kanani 2011

Then just to ratchet up the temperature higher Iran's official news agency blustered that its parliament would take up legislation to prevent American warships from traversing the Straits following a warning from Iran's Revolutionary Guards Commander that Iran would prevent the USS John C. Stennis -- one of the 5th Fleet's aircraft carriers, from returning to the Persian Gulf.

Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Gunboat Diplomacy: A Maritime Field Guide to the Straits of Hormuz Crisis Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2012

After the Navy's investigation into the videos was made public, Horton was relieved of his command of the 7th Fleet's logistics unit based in Singapore.

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Then just to ratchet up the temperature higher Iran's official news agency blustered that its parliament would take up legislation to prevent American warships from traversing the Straits following a warning from Iran's Revolutionary Guards Commander that Iran would prevent the USS John C. Stennis -- one of the 5th Fleet's aircraft carriers, from returning to the Persian Gulf.

Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Gunboat Diplomacy: A Maritime Field Guide to the Straits of Hormuz Crisis Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2012

Fleet's Amphibious Forces the following spring, 1951, to train for fall operations off Greenland.

ALBERT NELSON CAIN 2010

Santa's helper, aka Rotarian Jim Crow, who is resplendent in a festive red-and-white hat, beams broadly as he jangles his bucket in Fleet's high street.

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However, arguments can, and have, been made that the Fifth Fleet's position in Bahrain has outlived its usefulness for the U.S.

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Fleet's Amphibious Forces the following spring, 1951, to train for fall operations off Greenland.

ALBERT NELSON CAIN 2010

However, arguments can, and have, been made that the Fifth Fleet's position in Bahrain has outlived its usefulness for the U.S.

Philip Bishop: A Freedom Poet: The Ai Weiwei of the Middle East Philip Bishop 2011