Posted on 06/02/2004 9:18:05 PM PDT by gilliam
Navy Tests New Operational Construct Seven Carrier Strike Groups Underway for Exercise “Summer Pulse 04”
The Department of Defense announced today 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 CSG and the San Diego-based USS John C. Stennis CSG, both currently deployed, and Yokosuka, Japan-based USS Kitty Hawk. The Mayport, Fla.-based USS John F Kennedy CSG will begin a combined and joint exercise early this month, followed by a scheduled overseas deployment. 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. USS Ronald Reagan 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.
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If I were any three, I would take this very seriously.
Isaiah 17:1.
That's a good start. Add China and you've got the perfect mission.
Someone's getting stomped into the ground in a big way.
No way this could be a drill.
But wouldn't it be still better if the time frame was below 10 days vs. 30?
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?
How long has this exercise been planned? 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.
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.
Around tierra del fuego? No problem.
A typhoon in 1967 knocked a screw off the Coral Sea, and screwed up the flight deck... it spent weeks in Japan, for repairs. I was on a DD, and we were forced to stay there, too... boohoo!
Does anyone remember it?
Eye in the sky ping.
Some say comet strike , next week, find a cave.
Eye in the sky ping.
If your pinging what I think your pinging....ping me too, when something pops up.
Ping!
Ma'am can you please ping me if you hear anything....thanks!
There is no way this is just an exercise...to many ships involved.....SEVEN WHOLE STRIKE GROUPS...is HUGE.
Do you think this is about AB's prediction? Puting on tin foil.
AB's prediction??
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh just a little
Aussie Bloke, seems there are predictions of a comet striking earth next week. Venus crossing the path of the sun and other predictions. Mass destruction and other mayham. According to some, june is a time to find a cave. It is all over the net, like I said, grab some tin foil.
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