Navy to Deploy Carrier Groups to Test Rapid Readiness
"A major exercise soon to be underway will have a large part of the Navy fleet deploying out of Norfolk.
WAVY News 10 has learned the Navy is sending seven carrier strike groups out to sea.
The exercise is designed to test the Navy's new rapid deployment readiness.
Several Norfolk-based carrier strike groups will participate. The USS George Washington is already deployed. Two others, the USS Enterprise and USS Harry S Truman will leave soon.
Other carriers involved in the exercise include the USS John F. Kennedy, the USS John S. Stennis, and the USS Ronald Reagan - which left Norfolk on Thursday.
While the Navy won't say where the seven carrier groups are going, the carriers not already deployed are expected to be gone for only one to two months."
Question: Is it standard procedure not to divulge where carriers are going when conducting exercises?
In time of war, it is standard Navy procedure not to announce fleet movements or destinations, even if it is an exercise.
I do find it interesting that seven carrier battle groups are going to sea. That is a LOT of firepower!
Thank God. At least we'll know that many Americans will make it. AND be in a position to fight back.
Somebody's thinking.
The Navy did this another time. Recently. Hummm, maybe around the Winter Holidays? I really want to say Christimas time, but am not sure, could have been earlier than that. I DO remember the threat level had been raised.