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 Navys 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 Navys 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 ships 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dod.mil ...
Story last week... a little slow on getting out more info......
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1144475/posts
I'm having trouble finding the source link. Does anyone have it? I looked some at http://www.dod.mil and couldn't find a thing on this.
See the above; have they pulled this?
If so,
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;-)
Never mind. Here it is:
http://www.dod.mil/releases/2004/nr20040602-0856.html
The press release title is "Navy Tests New Operational Construct"; I was searching for "carrier" at www.dod.mil.
maybe, maybe not, then again, look here.:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1146755/posts
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.
I was on the Big John in the mid 80's. I wish everyone could have the chance to get right up beside or onto a carrier.
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. Woohooo! Lotta fun (if you aren't prone to sea sickness). 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. No use having a sailor who cannot function at sea.
A comet......and 7 Carrier task forces putting to sea ..?!?!?! That would explain this then ! Chicken little signing off !
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 221.71 points this week, in line with the direction of our expectations - but a larger, earlier move - as our Short-term TII came in last week at positive 22.00.
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 46.8 billion this past week. What awful calamity do they see? Something is up. This is unprecedented, unheard-of pre-catastrophe M-3 expansion. M-3 is up an amount that we've never seen before without a crisis - $155 billion over the past 4 weeks, a $2.0 trillion annualized pace, a 22.2 percent annualized rate of growth!!! 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. They are aware of a terrible, horrific imminent event. What could it be?
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. Let me ramble. 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. This time seems different. The amount of liquidity is too large. The Fed is deflating the value of the monetary base by a fifth! Why are they willing to do this? Wisdom says something bad is up - big time.
http://www.safehaven.com/article-1597.htm
Stay Safe !
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. Captain got canned and everything.
I think she's back up to snuff now.
My ex-boss (RIP) was a plankowner and when he retired from here the ship sent him a plankowners cap. Pretty cool.
can you add me to that ping list too?
This is fishy.
Something is going down; this is no "exercise" when you have 7! ships leaving.
Agreed....this means something significant.
Venus will be crossing the path of the sun; this is real and will happen on the 8th.
However, it does not mean anything bad.
The world survived when it did it 100 years ago.
Yes and it was harrowing and yes the ship made it through the hurricane. Most planes were sent to safety as were many other components of the carrier battle group but the ships that could went to sea.
Better there then getting destroyed by debris in port.
Thank you all for the information.
You know in most every bank heist/spy movie they hit at the shift change.
BUMP
And by the way the NAVY website(navy.mil) currently has listed 8 carriers deployed:
USS Enterprise (CVN 65) - Atlantic Ocean
USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) - Atlantic Ocean
USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) - port visit, San Diego, Calif.
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) - port visit, San Diego, Calif.
USS George Washington (CVN 73) - Arabian Gulf
USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) - Pacific Ocean
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) - Atlantic Ocean
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) - South Atlantic Ocean
The Chicomms have war games off of Taiwan at the end of this month.
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