What Your Navy Did On February 19th

The Yankee Sailor ^ | 2/23/2009 | Yankee Sailor

[SolitarySaint]

With the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan dominating the military news for the last seven years, most Americans have little or no idea what their Navy does in a day. In an effort to provide background for the Navy’s leaders to use in their interactions with the media and public, the Navy’s Chief Of Information has been producing monthly “snapshots” documenting the Navy’s key activities on one day a month. This month, CHINFO chose February 19th, and it gives a great overview of the Maritime Strategy in action. Here are the key bullets:

331,676 Active Duty Officers, Sailors and Midshipmen; 120,567 Reserve Component Sailors, with 5,113 Reserves mobilized; and 185,478 civilians are serving in the Department of the Navy.

283 active ships are in service. 113 (40%) including 3 carriers and 1 large-deck, amphibious ship are underway.

5,755 Individual Augmentees, 1,998 of which are mobilized Reserves, are deployed on the ground around the world in support of the War on Terrorism.

USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) with embarked Carrier Air Wing 8 flies missions in support of coalition forces as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. To date, CVN 71 and CVW-8 have flown more

[Former MSM Viewer]

do you know if the exchange supposedly between a french engineer and an American engineer really happened?

It was with the french mocking the carrier going to Indonesia to help after the tsunami...”What are the Americans going to do, bomb the people onshore?”

Then the American stood up and listed the capabilities of the ship. “It has kitchen facilities that can serve 3000 people a day, it has a desalination plant that can make 10,000 gallons of fresh water a day, it can produce enough power and send onshore to power X amount of homes, it has 14 helicopters that can ferry hundreds of people a day to the 3 hospitals onboard...we have 11 of these carriers. How many do the French have?

God Bless our troops and their families