Not saying all what was published is true, but here's the news of the Truman strike group (1 carrier, 4 destroyers and 1 frigate) departure published by a local Virginia online gazette:
http://hamptonroads.com/2010/05/afte...eploy?cid=ltst
You can speculate this is just a military excercise or something else. But that 6000 US sailors are on their way to the persian gulf is a FACT.