DIAMOND IKE – The Type 45 Destroyer DIAMOND, servicing East of Suez, has been getting into practice again with the designed role for which the ship was intended by joining an American Carrier Strike Group 8 lead by the nuclear powered Aircraft Carrier  USS DWIGHT D.EISENHOWER.   This was the second time that the British Destroyer has linked up with the American super-carrier.    It is as well to remind ourselves of the Air Group of one of the large NIMITZ Class Carriers which carry eight squadrons – four F-18 HORNET (strike fighter), one HAWEYE (eye-in-the-sky), plus one an Electronic Warfare Squadron, a Transport Squadron plus an Anti-Submarine Helicopter Squadron.  Up to 90 aircraft in all, supported by more than a staggering 5,500 crew.