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Status of the U.S. Navy
Department of the Navy ^ | 06/11/04 | DNO Daily Operations Brief

Posted on 06/10/2004 8:23:36 PM PDT by 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+



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KEYWORDS: navy; ships; status; submarines
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To: eastforker

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).


21 posted on 06/10/2004 9:27:49 PM PDT by Freemeorkillme (Strike at the heart of the enemy! Support your conservative media now by picking up the pen!)
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To: BearWash

Now that is the classified part none of us know.


22 posted on 06/10/2004 9:28:13 PM PDT by eastforker (All those in favor of abortion have already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Freemeorkillme

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


23 posted on 06/10/2004 9:30:53 PM PDT by eastforker (All those in favor of abortion have already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: eastforker

Wasn't sure if that was intentional or not.


24 posted on 06/10/2004 9:32:32 PM PDT by steve86
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To: Freemeorkillme

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


25 posted on 06/10/2004 9:34:18 PM PDT by eastforker (All those in favor of abortion have already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: eastforker

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

FMOKM


26 posted on 06/10/2004 9:34:40 PM PDT by Freemeorkillme (Strike at the heart of the enemy! Support your conservative media now by picking up the pen!)
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To: BearWash

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.


27 posted on 06/10/2004 9:36:54 PM PDT by eastforker (All those in favor of abortion have already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: BenLurkin

I hope so as well, BL.


28 posted on 06/10/2004 9:38:06 PM PDT by Freemeorkillme (Strike at the heart of the enemy! Support your conservative media now by picking up the pen!)
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To: eastforker

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.


29 posted on 06/10/2004 9:44:26 PM PDT by Freemeorkillme (Strike at the heart of the enemy! Support your conservative media now by picking up the pen!)
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To: Freemeorkillme

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


30 posted on 06/10/2004 9:46:04 PM PDT by Quzar
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To: Freemeorkillme
May God's protective hand be over our ships and sailors.

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

31 posted on 06/10/2004 9:49:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin; Quzar

God Bless them and God speed, Quzar!


32 posted on 06/10/2004 9:52:07 PM PDT by Freemeorkillme (Strike at the heart of the enemy! Support your conservative media now by picking up the pen!)
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To: Freemeorkillme
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.
33 posted on 06/10/2004 9:53:34 PM PDT by eastforker (All those in favor of abortion have already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: killjoy

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


34 posted on 06/10/2004 9:54:46 PM PDT by Iberian
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To: eastforker

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


35 posted on 06/10/2004 10:08:45 PM PDT by tracer
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To: tracer

Did not know this, for real?


36 posted on 06/10/2004 10:14:42 PM PDT by eastforker (All those in favor of abortion have already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: eastforker

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


37 posted on 06/10/2004 10:16:41 PM PDT by tracer
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To: PokeyJoe; VaBthang4; All
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.

38 posted on 06/10/2004 11:51:49 PM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear missiles: The ultimate Phallic symbol.)
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To: spetznaz
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6)Deploy assets away from base to blunt potential terrorist attacks?

39 posted on 06/12/2004 2:04:24 PM PDT by prophetic
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To: PokeyJoe

LOL. Remember when this kind of information was classified?


40 posted on 06/12/2004 2:05:31 PM PDT by Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh
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