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I know we have an op temp... but 10 US carriers at sea... the only 2 NOT at sea are being refueled (2 year process). What gives? the RN and the USN both at battle stations? Or just making an obvious "try it and you'll regret it" statement?
Posted on 06/10/2004 8:23:36 PM PDT by PokeyJoe
The Navy Fact File contains complete descriptions of the roles and characteristics of Navy ships.
The make-up of a Carrier Strike Group (CSG)
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Just wondering.
Semper Fi
I know we have an op temp... but 10 US carriers at sea... the only 2 NOT at sea are being refueled (2 year process). What gives? the RN and the USN both at battle stations? Or just making an obvious "try it and you'll regret it" statement?
I've heard of pregnant chads, 3/4 hanging chads, 2 point hanging chads, etc. Seeing the Med there I wonder if North Africa's ever heard of a puckered Chad?
Vietnam.
See this thread and post #47, which is reposted below.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1151351/posts
Seven Carrier Strike Groups Underway for Exercise “Summer Pulse 04”
Story Number: NNS040603-02
6/3/2004
Special release from the U.S. Department of Defense
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Department of Defense announced June 2 that this summer, simultaneous deployment of seven aircraft carrier strike groups (CSGs) will demonstrate the ability of the Navy to provide credible combat power across the globe by operating in five theaters with other U.S., allied and coalition military forces.
“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 U.S. military forces.
The seven aircraft carriers involved in Summer Pulse 04 will include: the Norfolk-based USS George Washington (CVN 73) CSG and the San Diego-based USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) CSG, both currently deployed, and Yokosuka, Japan-based USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). The Mayport, Fla.-based USS John F Kennedy (CV 67) CSG will begin a combined and joint exercise early this month, followed by a scheduled overseas deployment. The Norfolk-based USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) CSG will conduct a scheduled training exercise followed by overseas pulse operations with the Norfolk-based USS Enterprise (CVN 65) CSG, beginning early this month. USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) will conduct operations in the U.S. Northern Command and U.S. Southern Command theaters during the ship’s interfleet transfer from Norfolk, Va., to its Pacific Fleet homeport of San Diego.
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. Summer Pulse 04 is scheduled to conclude in August.
For more information on the Summer Pulse 04 events and to schedule coverage opportunities, please contact Fleet Forces Command media office at (757) 836-3600.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1151351/posts
Good one!
Amen to that! Don't post things like this anymore.
Not one of us in South Africa. Something wrong there.
Pull this thread, please.
Sorry, major keyboard PRoblems.
You dummy, this was put out by DOD, they want this info out in public domain, read the source.
True, they certainly aren't working to conceal it.
And the info is two weeks old, and only approximate.
Look at the source who wants this info out, we want this info out.
Considering it is on the US Navy's official website, I don't think we are giving anything away to anyone.
We have some dummies here that do not have a clue, the American Eagle is flexing it's wings.
It was funny watching these guys rant...until you came along and ruined it :)
I wish I knew if it were just a demonstration. I don't.
Perhaps, I'm being a bit oversensitive, eastporker, but ships movement details is still a no post in my book. To hell what the navy.mil site wants to post(according to the link, not DOD , by the way).
Now that is the classified part none of us know.
I am eastforker not eastporker and it was the department of the navy, probably more clandestine than DOD ever was, get a grip.
Wasn't sure if that was intentional or not.
BTW, didn't you know we fund all our black ops through the navy, and I mean all of them, understand?
Ok, let us both put down the fork on the count of three. Three.....Two.....One. Now, wanna join me for a refreshment?
FMOKM
The p is a long way from the f. There are many out there that haven't a clue about what goes on and how, I don't either but when the government puts out a statement there is a reason for it.
I hope so as well, BL.
Sure hope there is quite a bit of disinfo in .mil posts like these. I'm not "one of these...alarmists normally", nor am I a "dummy", but understanding the international highway that is the www leads me to the inescapable fact that our enemies, their allies, their sympathizers....well, hell, the terrorists themselves have access to the global thread that is now known as the information highway.
I am a navy recruit that leaves for boot camp july 8th =P
And may the enemy never know where they are until WE attack.
God Bless them and God speed, Quzar!
Killjoy , I was just kidding. Very funny comment man. :)
And the Navy is not constrained by the Posse Comitatus Act, so be sure to take a Marine or SEAL to lunch.....
Did not know this, for real?
And the Navy is not constrained by the Posse Comitatus Act, so be sure to take a Marine or SEAL to lunch.....
1) We are merely conducting an excercise on how we can deploy our naval assets to different parts of the globe. Hence the Surge '04 excercise.
2) We are planning a major military strike against a nation with more teeth than Iraq. Maybe N.Korea. And why this scenario? Well, 2 weeks ago the Fed increased the M-3 money supply by 46.8 billion dollars one and a half weeks ago. Now, that is seriously 'interesting' because in the last 5 weeks the M-3 supply has gone up by over 150 billion bucks. This has never happened before, unless we were facing a crisis situation. And the funny thing is it has been largely under-reported. This could be because the Fed is trying to buffer us in case we suffer a terrorist attack, or maybe because we are going to war.
3) China is also having a major naval excercise soon. Maybe this Summer surge 04 thing is to show the Chinese that even with what is going on in Iraq we can be able to send enough power around the globe ....definitely more than enough to help out Taiwan. (Although if that is the case it would be a bluff ...I do not believe the public would support American lives defending Taiwanese ones, but that is another story). Hence we could be showing China .....and to another extent North Korea, that we still have exceedingly sharp teeth and an mind-bogglingly potent bite.
4) A natural disaster such as an asteroid et al strike. There has been some talk among the conspiracy kooks of a meteorite strike later this month. That could explain the naval movements to sea (a tsunami would cause only a ripple in deep sea, but a huge tidal wave in coastal areas, thus the safest place for ships would be out to sea ...thus explaining 10 carrier groups at sea ...as well as the British, Chinese and Russian fleets). And it would also explain the M-3 supply increase. But this is an extreme scenario.
5) Maybe it is to keep Pentagon's grabbing hands away from our fleet. To show that we are 'using' the ships and need them. To show they are not just sitting and atrophying.
6)Deploy assets away from base to blunt potential terrorist attacks?
LOL. Remember when this kind of information was classified?
Please excuse my ignorance. What are you guys referring to?
IMHO, this is how I've seen this developing for the past 4 years. No, one would deploy away from well calculated response sites. For example, 50 years of socialist and communist planning will have numerous 'black' units already in place in diverse interests, working as a modified 5th Column. (controlled more as an intelligence operation than a military campaign)
Consider the tactics employed in Iraq by coalition forces and how Hussein controlled forces by allowing them promises of looting whatever they seized in Kuwait.
Now take the New World Order socialist, encourage disparate groups throughout the Western Hemisphere, while a major Chinese power decides to make rapid gains in world dominance.
They really don't care who controls things outside their sphere of control, as long as they advance their agenda.
Best counterattack is to remain mobile, prepared to counterattack where they are unable to quickly respond, and live off the land. It'll take 5 years for the American common man to get back to where we were prior to WWII, if this ever occurs, but meanwhile we're either setup for defeat ala Spanish Armada or positioned to dissuade any third party from foolhardy power plays.
IMHO, its equally important for the US not to allow ungodly things to continue as a nation,..i.e. Gay White Weekends, Partial Birth Abortions, elimination of all Christianity from public view, while encouraging Islamic diversity, etc. It's as if we're ripe for destruction.
Everybody and their brother can now order live-time satelite photos of our movements.
Heck,..most of the government contractors are minority disadvantaged foreigners and we've already given foreigners priority of our natural resources over US interests,..go figure.
Funny thing, is that the US is already practically a socialist country. What's frustrating is that socialists will never be satiated, even after they turn the US into a failed USSR, and still don't understand the harm they are causing.
Actually, I do.
I remember when I was serving as a young Marine in Subic Bay - that we go skinned alive for talking about ship deployments. I always found it fascinating that the girls in the bars knew the schedule of carriers before we Marines did.
T US Dapartment of the Navy CNO publishes this in a daily brief. If the Islaminazi's want this info - they'll go to the Navy.mil site. Besides.... there are 5000 people deployed with a carrier and air wing. I hardly think it would be a secret for more than.... two weeks prior.
The United States Navy |
The Navy Fact File contains complete descriptions of the roles and characteristics of Navy ships.
The make-up of a Carrier Strike Group (CSG)
The make-up of a Carrier Air Wing (CVW)
The make-up of an Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG)
Navy Personnel |
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Active Duty: 376,013
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Ready Reserve: 147,672 [As of 31 May]
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| Personnel on deployment: 45,092 | |
| Navy Department Civilian Employees: 181,152 [as of 31 May] | |
Ships and Submarines |
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| Ships: 295 | |
Ships Underway (away from homeport):
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Submarines underway (away from homeport):
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| Ships Underway | |
| Carriers: USS Enterprise (CVN 65) - North Atlantic Ocean USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) - Mediterranean Sea USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) - Pacific Ocean USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) - Pacific Ocean USS George Washington (CVN 73) - Persian Gulf USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) - Pacific Ocean USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) - Atlantic Ocean USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) - port visit, Valparaiso, Chile
Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) Two |
Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) Three Amphibious Ships: |
| Aircraft (operational): 4,000+ |
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Looking for results of the "training" exercise now. Thanks for reminding me.
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