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The USS Bataan’s scheduled eight-month deployment in European and Middle Eastern waters included participation in maritime security operations and being available for emergency and humanitarian response. It followed this itinerary:
In addition to the above data, I searched the website of Stratfor, a publicly accessible intelligence and foreign relations news and analysis site, and discovered that a US Military ship was operating in the Mediterranean during the timeline that we believe the Ghost Boat would have sailed for Italy.