OK: one bit from the linked NYT article stood out for me:

The saga of the wayward carrier might never have come to light, had the Navy not posted a photograph on Monday of the Carl Vinson sailing through the Sunda Strait, which separates the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. The picture was taken on Saturday, four days after the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, described its mission in the Sea of Japan.

OK, leaving aside the usual Trump White House Follies (Dog knows we can’t expect much from that buffoon-circus), I wonder why it took the media so long to notice that that YUUUGE ARMADA!!! - supposedly steaming around Korea to put the fear into L’il Kim — was actually a thousand or so miles away? I realize that the Navy (even in peacetime) may have its own notions of the “proper” publicity for its ship movements, but SRSLY: a Nimitz-class CVN, a couple of missile cruisers and a bunch of destroyers? They shouldn’t be that hard to spot: even after a week of looking??