The San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson appears to be making good time traveling from the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East. The U.S. Naval Institute says the flat-top sailed through the Malacca Strait between Indonesia and Malaysia on Friday accompanied by its escort ships. The nuclear-p owered Vinson will soon pass beneath the lower tip of India and head for the Red Sea, where another American carrier, the USS Harry S. Truman, is operating. On March 21, President Donald Trump ordered the Vinson to join the Truman in the Middle East so that they can suppress the missile and drone attacks that Yemen-based Houthis have been launching against commercial shipping, the AP and USNI reported. The Vinson left San Diego for the Indo-Pacific in mid-November and completed various naval exercises with Japan and Korea before being diverted to the Red Sea area. ...read more read less