The fastest way to get to the Middle East
Your an USN admiral that needs to send a 688 to the Middle East... which way is faster:
1. Depart from the US East Coast, travel souteast to the south Atlantic, round the tip of African, then up the African East coast of the Indian Ocean to the RedSea/Persian Gulf
or...
2. Depart from Pearl Harbor sub base, travel across the Pacific Ocean, past the Phillipines into the East Indian Ocean to the RedSea/Persian Gulf.
Which way is faster?
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