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"Summer Pulse 04" will be the Navy's first exercise of its new operational construct, the Fleet Response Plan (FRP). FRP is about new ways of operating, training, manning, and maintaining the fleet that results in increased force readiness and the ability to provide significant combat power to the President in response to a national emergency or crisis. Beginning this week and continuing through August, the Navy will exercise the full range of skills involved in simultaneously deploying and employing carrier strike groups around the world. "Summer Pulse 04" will include scheduled deployments, surge operations, joint and international exercises, and other advanced training and port visits. Under the FRP construct, the Navy can provide six CSGs in less than 30 days to support contingency operations around the globe, and two more CSGs can be ready in three months to reinforce or rotate with initially responding forces, to continue presence operations in other parts of the world, or to support military action in another crisis. "Summer Pulse 04" will exercise the logistics and shore infrastructure necessary to execute a large scale surge operation, stress the operational concepts in the Navy's Sea Power 21 strategy, and improve Navy interoperability with numerous allies and coalition partners as well as other US military forces. The seven aircraft carriers involved in "Summer Pulse 04" will include: the Norfolk-based USS George Washington CSG and the San Diego-based USS John C Stennis CSG, both currently deployed, and Yokosuka, Japan-based USS Kitty Hawk. The Norfolk-based USS Harry S Truman CSG will conduct a scheduled training exercise followed by overseas pulse operations with the Norfolk-based USS Enterprise CSG, beginning early this month. The near-simultaneous deployment of seven carrier strike groups provides the Navy and the joint combatant commanders an opportunity to exercise the FRP while maintaining the ability to respond to crises around the globe, enhance regional security and relationships, meet combatant commander requirements including forward presence, and demonstrate a commitment to allies and coalition partners.
View Replies To: gilliam I remember watching the JFK pull in to Norfolk after the Gulf War. The pier was lined with people as far as you could see, and it's a long pier.
Will this group travel around the southern tip of South America to get to San Diego? I'm assuming it couldn't get though the Panama Canal, right? Would an aircraft carrier withstand a strong hurricane if it got caught in one? It's not the kind of thing where you call the British Admiral of the Fleet and ask if his Navy is busy next week.
View Replies To: Ken H Many if not all the ships wouldn't fit through the canal. And yes a carrier would make it through a nasty hurricane at sea. If one were coming towards one at its docks it would go out to sea where it would have a better chance of riding it out. In this uncertain world I don't think you'd want a carrier in such a situation as being in a lock where it is a sitting duck.
View Replies To: Dog Aussie Bloke, seems there are predictions of a comet striking earth next week. Venus crossing the path of the sun and other predictions. It is all over the net, like I said, grab some tin foil.
Western Pacific Aircraft carrier Stennis (CSG) Guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) Burke-class destroyer USS Howard (DDG 83) Guided-missile frigate USS Ford (FFG 54) Fast-attack submarine USS Salt Lake City (SSN 716) Replenishment ship USNS Rainier (T-AOE 7) Also amphibious assault ship Belleau Wood amphibious transport dock ship Denver amphibious transport dock ships Comstock (10-11) Burke-class guided missile destroyers Preble and Hopper -- will depart next month. The ship and its crew are headed to Southeast Asia in support of a Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) cruise. McCampbell will be conducting joint naval exercises with the countries of Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines. Also: Twenty Royal Navy ships, led by HMS Invincible, are heading off to take part in the exercise called Rapid Alliance, which is taking place off the eastern seaboard of the United States. id=2918574 Mediterranean Sea Surface Strike Group deployment: (14) Guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG 61) (15) Guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71), (16) Guided-missile frigate USS Elrod (FFG 55) USS John C Stennis Strike Group Deploys for Pacific Operations: Navy-Marine strike group leaves on 6-month deployment: More than 5,000 sailors and Marines with the Belleau Wood Expeditionary Strike Group will leave San Diego Thursday for a six-month deployment in support of the war on terrorism The amphibious assault ship Belleau Wood and the amphibious transport dock ships Denver and Comstock will depart from 32nd Street Naval Station beginning at 8:30 am Thursday. "It is the first time an expeditionary strike group will be commanded by a Marine general, according to the Navy. txt "The Army begins a major staging operation today at the port to ship equipment to southwest Asia." shtml Official explanation: Strike Group Deploys Early To Help Quell Insurgency "The plan was developed to train naval forces for quick response to crises and in support of national interests." story=69752&ran=237692 ROTA, Spain (NNS) -- USNS Patuxent (T-AO 201) accompanied patrol boats USS Typhoon (PC 5) and USS Sirocco (PC 6) on their journey across the Atlantic Ocean to Naval Station Rota, Spain, and arrived in port with the two PCs May 12.
View Replies To: FreeAtlanta Wouldn't it be nice if this had lots of prominent foreign politicians getting photo ops, lots of publicity about the operations and 3 carrier groups just happen to near Korea when boom they take out the NK nukes and the whole NK front line? Then we could say to ROK hey sorry about the mess, yall better go on and clean it up.
View Replies To: Ken H I'm assuming it couldn't get though the Panama Canal, right? The WW-II Essex class carriers and Iowa class battleships have 90 foot beams -- they were designed to (just barely) fit through Panama Canal locks.
View Replies To: Ken H A carrier would easily withstand a hurricane. I was on the Kennedy in '86 when we did high speed runs through 35 foot seas and 70 mph winds. They tie the aircraft down with TWENTY chains, 5 for the nose, tail, and each main landing gear. Personally, I get seasick the first day or so and then I get used to it. I have heard of some sailors being given a medical discharged because of severe seasickness.
Let me just say from the outset that the Federal Reserve has confirmed our Stock Market Crash forecast by raising the Money Supply (M-3) by crisis proportions, up another 468 billion this past week. This is unprecedented, unheard-of pre-catastrophe M-3 expansion. There must be a crisis of historic proportions coming, and the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States is making sure that there is enough liquidity in place to protect our nation's fragile financial system. The amazing thing is, the Fed's actions mean they know what is about to happen. One can draw no other conclusion except that the Fed is acting irresponsibly in its managing the money supply, in fulfilling its duty to "maintain a stable currency." I reject the notion that the Fed is acting irresponsibly. No, something is up, bigger than we have ever seen in the history of the United States. Perhaps they simply see the ominous technical landscape we have been warning about in recent issues, and are attempting to pull out all the stops to avert the predicted crash. The recent rally in just about everything is similar to 2003's market behavior when the Fed pumped massive amounts of liquidity into the system during the first half of the year. The Fed is deflating the value of the monetary base by a fifth!
Then I guess that you were pleased with the reports a few years back of the sad shape she was in? Lack of maintenance lead to her being almost undeployable. My ex-boss (RIP) was a plankowner and when he retired from here the ship sent him a plankowners cap.
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