Status of the U.S. Navy

Department of the Navy ^ | 06/11/04 | DNO Daily Operations Brief

[PokeyJoe]

June 10, 2004

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
Active Duty: 376,185 Officers: 55,793 Enlisted: 317,213 Midshipmen: 3,179	Ready Reserve: 147,622 [As of 30 Apr.] Selected Reserves: 83,719 Individual Ready Reserve: 63,903 Reserves currently mobilized: 2,535 [as of 9 June]
Personnel on deployment: 49,604
Navy Department Civilian Employees: 181,701 [as of 30 Apr.]
Ships and Submarines
Ships: 295
Ships Underway (away from homeport): 164 (56% of total) On deployment: 108 ships (37% of total)	Submarines underway (away from homeport): 30 submarines (57% of submarine force) On deployment: 8 submarines (15% of submarine force)
Ships Underway
Carriers: USS Enterprise (CVN 65) - Atlantic Ocean USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) - Atlantic Ocean USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) - Pacific Ocean USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) - Pacific Ocean 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) - port visit, Rio De Janeiro Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) Two USS Wasp (LHD 1)[22 MEU] - Arabian Gulf USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) - Arabian Gulf USS Yorktown (CG 48) - Gulf of Oman USS Shreveport (LPD 12) - Indian Ocean USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41) - Arabian Gulf USS McFaul (DDG 74) - Arabian Gulf Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) Three [11th Marine Expeditionary Unit] USS Belleau Wood (LHA 3) - Pacific Ocean USS Denver (LPD 9) - Pacific Ocean USS Comstock (LSD 45) - Pacific Ocean		Amphibious Ships: USS Tarawa (LHA 1) - Pacific Ocean USS Nassau (LHA 4) - Atlantic Ocean USS Peleliu (LHA 5) - Pacific Ocean USS Essex (LHD 2) - Pacific Ocean USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) - Atlantic Ocean USS Boxer (LHD 4) - Pacific Ocean USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) - Pacific Ocean USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) - Atlantic Ocean USS Austin (LPD 4) - Atlantic Ocean USS Duluth (LPD 6) - Pacific Ocean USS Dubuque (LPD 8) - Pacific Ocean USS Juneau (LPD 10) - Pacific Ocean USS Ponce (LPD 15) - Atlantic Ocean USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43) - port visit, Singapore USS Tortuga (LSD 46) - Atlantic Ocean USS Rushmore (LSD 47) - Pacific Ocean USS Ashland (LSD 48) - Atlantic Ocean USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) - Sunda Sea USS Carter Hall (LSD 50) - Atlantic Ocean USS Oak Hill (LSD 51) - port visit, Mayport, Fla.
Aircraft (operational): 4,000+

[Freemeorkillme]

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).

[eastforker]

Now that is the classified part none of us know.

[eastforker]

I am eastforker not eastporker and it was the department of the navy, probably more clandestine than DOD ever was, get a grip.

[steve86]

Wasn't sure if that was intentional or not.

[eastforker]

BTW, didn't you know we fund all our black ops through the navy, and I mean all of them, understand?

[Freemeorkillme]

Ok, let us both put down the fork on the count of three. Three.....Two.....One. Now, wanna join me for a refreshment?

FMOKM

[eastforker]

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.

[Freemeorkillme]

I hope so as well, BL.

[Freemeorkillme]

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.

[Quzar]

I am a navy recruit that leaves for boot camp july 8th =P

[BenLurkin]

May God's protective hand be over our ships and sailors.

And may the enemy never know where they are until WE attack.

[Freemeorkillme]

God Bless them and God speed, Quzar!

[eastforker]

Black ops are run through the Navy for a reason. They have the biggest budget. A million here a million there, it is never missed. The CIA,MI,NSA and all the other alphabets get a lot of funding through the Navy budget. They would never divulge info that would put them in peril.

[Iberian]

Killjoy , I was just kidding. Very funny comment man. :)

[tracer]

And the Navy is not constrained by the Posse Comitatus Act, so be sure to take a Marine or SEAL to lunch.....

[eastforker]

Did not know this, for real?

[tracer]

And the Navy is not constrained by the Posse Comitatus Act, so be sure to take a Marine or SEAL to lunch.....

[spetznaz]

Several scenarios:

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.

[prophetic]

and

6)Deploy assets away from base to blunt potential terrorist attacks?

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

LOL. Remember when this kind of information was classified?