美军称太平洋两支舰队随时准备应战

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(1) 黎堡, 美军称太平洋两支舰队随时准备应战. VOA Chinese, Feb 22, 2017
www.voachinese.com/a/us-pacific- ... 170222/3735696.html
(photo caption: "第七 [sic; should be 三] 舰队司令泰森中将2017年2月22日在海军西部会议上发言")

(2) Megan Eckstein, '3rd Fleet Forward' One of Several Tools to Deter North Korean Aggression. USNI News, Feb 22, 2017
https://news.usni.org/2017/02/22 ... h-korean-aggression
(Vice Adm Joseph Aucoin, commander of US 7th Fleet, and Nora W Tyson, commander of US 7th Fleet, at WEST 2017)

My comment:
(a) In this report, while the bogeyman is North Korea, South China sea is mentioned once as a potential flash point.
(b) Admiral Harry B Harris Jr is commander of United States Pacific Command (USPACOM)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Pacific_Command
(section 3 Force structure)

and superior of these two vice admirals.
(c) West 2017
www.westconference.org/West17/Public/Enter.aspx
(Feb 21-23, 2017, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Ca; "The premier naval conference and exposition on the West Coast, WEST is now in its 27th year of bringing military and industry leaders together")

Click Information" on the top horizontal bar, and you will see the talks of these two vice admirals yesterday (Feb 21).
(d) Nora W Tyson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_W._Tyson
(In 2015 she was installed as the new commander of the Navy's Third Fleet, making her the first woman to lead a US Navy ship fleet)
(e) A vice admiral is "senior to a rear admiral and junior to an admiral."  en.wikipedia.org