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San Diego Based Navy Strike Groups Aid Disaster Victims
San Diego 10 News ^ | Dec. 29, 2004

Posted on 12/30/2004 9:13:56 AM PST by ishm

Six San Diego based ships have been diverted to provide disaster and humanitarian assistance to victims of earthquake and tsunamis in South Asia, according to the US Navy's Seventh Fleet.

The ships with Expeditionary Group 5, including the amphibious ships Rushmore, Bonhomme Richard, and Duluth, the guided missile cruiser Bunker Hill, guided missile destroyer Milius and guided missile frigate Thach.

The strike group will provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to the governments of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand and other affected nations, according to the Navy.

The Navy is also sending the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, according to the Seventh Fleet.

P-3C Orion surveillance aircraft have also been sent to Thailand, where they will conduct search and resuce operations.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 7thfleet; humanitarianrelief; sandiego; sumatraquake; usn; ussabrahamlincoln; ussbonhommerichard
And the UN still says we are stingy with aid?
1 posted on 12/30/2004 9:13:56 AM PST by ishm
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To: ishm

This was announced within 24 hrs of the event, but has not been reported. The MSM is playing games with facts. I'm shocked.


2 posted on 12/30/2004 9:18:43 AM PST by ProudVet77 (2004 is worn out, time to start 2005)
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To: ProudVet77

It is possible they just got into the hardest hit areas?


3 posted on 12/30/2004 9:22:32 AM PST by ishm
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To: ishm
Keep in mind when you hear how the US is only giving $35 million in aid, that number does not include 1 cent of the expense that this operation and others like it cost.

The $35 million only includes actual cash transfers.

The US could provide $30 million in food, $20 million in clothes, and incur $10 million in logistical expense to deliver said relief and the UN would put the US contribution at ZERO.

4 posted on 12/30/2004 9:25:53 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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To: ishm

I'm sure the ships have just gotten there, but the aircraft like the P3s probobly were there within hours. We also were going to send in C-130s based on a prior report. I suspect they are there with supplies already, but have heard zero. They just want to blame W.


5 posted on 12/30/2004 9:29:41 AM PST by ProudVet77 (2004 is worn out, time to start 2005)
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To: ishm

??!! Where's my baby, the USS Peleliu???


6 posted on 12/30/2004 9:31:30 AM PST by RandallFlagg (FReepers, Do NOT let the voter fraud stories die!!!! (Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name))
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To: RandallFlagg

Here's where to find the gators.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/where-lh.htm


7 posted on 12/30/2004 9:35:11 AM PST by ProudVet77 (2004 is worn out, time to start 2005)
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To: ProudVet77

SWEEEET! That's a great link! Thanks.


8 posted on 12/30/2004 9:38:49 AM PST by RandallFlagg (FReepers, Do NOT let the voter fraud stories die!!!! (Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name))
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To: ishm
The really important ships are below:

If someone knows what M/V is [ship type], please post. These ships will carry stuff the folks really need -- as opposed to F18's.

...Disasater Relief/Humanitarian Assistance
M/V Cpl. Louis J. Hauge (TAK 3000)
M/V Pfc. James Anderson (TAK 3002)
M/V 1st Lt. Alex Bonnyman (TAK 3003)
M/V Maj. Steven W. Pless (TAK 3007)
M/V 1st Lt. Jack Lummus (TAK 3011)
USNS 1st Lt. Harry L. Martin (TAK 3015)

This is from a US Government site...

9 posted on 12/30/2004 9:42:49 AM PST by topher (God bless & Protect our Troops)
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To: ProudVet77
They need the Gators to get troops onshore.

But the M/V's must have provisions/medical supplies.

US Navy can do underway replenishment... Mastered that in World War II.

God Speed!

10 posted on 12/30/2004 9:45:31 AM PST by topher (God bless & Protect our Troops)
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To: ProudVet77

Isn't the Bonhomme Richard the ship that moron Weapons Tech
the media and Left tried to make into a martyr last week was assigned to?

The irony is just too rich!

Though I'm sure the Marines of that MAU will up to their elbows in it.

God bless and watch after them all.

Jack.


11 posted on 12/30/2004 9:48:31 AM PST by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Disemboweler of the WFTD Thread)
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To: topher
Did my share of Unreps in the north atlantic :)
Tha gators will have food and fuel supplies for the Marines, and big choppers to bring it ashore. So my guess is that they can use the supplies for the Marines for the survivors, keeping most of the Marines on the ships to enjoy Navy cuisine.
You are absolutely right that the M/Vs have to have been loaded with supplies and be close (they are slow 16.4kts max) The amphib group will have a lot of supplies on board, as well as the Navy always having plenty to spare until supply ship can meet it.
12 posted on 12/30/2004 9:54:15 AM PST by ProudVet77 (2004 is worn out, time to start 2005)
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To: topher

M/V stands for motor vessel. The TAK designation is for a cargo ship. These are normaly civilian ships that the government can use as necessary. The USNS is United States Naval Ship which is a ship that operates for the navy but has a civilian crew.


13 posted on 12/30/2004 10:18:57 AM PST by SaltyDog
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To: Jack Deth

"Isn't the Bonhomme Richard the ship that moron Weapons Tech
the media and Left tried to make into a martyr last week was assigned to?"

That's correct.


14 posted on 12/30/2004 11:16:59 AM PST by Tacos
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To: ishm
San Diego Based Navy Strike
Groups Aid, Disaster, Victims

San Diego Based Navy Strike
Groups Aid, Disaster - Victims

San Diego Based Navy Strike
Groups Aid, Disaster Victims

Fun with punctuation...

15 posted on 12/30/2004 11:23:00 AM PST by general_re ("What's plausible to you is unimportant." - D'man)
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To: ishm

PLUS .. THESE SHIPS CAN PRODUCE FRESH WATER FROM SALT WATER. Hundreds of thousands of gallons per day.

But .. we're so stingy I doubt we'll let anybody on land have any .. [I don't need a tag for that do I?]


16 posted on 12/30/2004 12:49:15 PM PST by CyberAnt (Where are the dem supporters? - try the trash cans in back of the abortion clinics.)
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To: topher

The really important ships are below:
If someone knows what M/V is [ship type], please post. These ships will carry stuff the folks really need -- as opposed to F18's.

...Disasater Relief/Humanitarian Assistance
M/V Cpl. Louis J. Hauge (TAK 3000)
M/V Pfc. James Anderson (TAK 3002)
M/V 1st Lt. Alex Bonnyman (TAK 3003)
M/V Maj. Steven W. Pless (TAK 3007)
M/V 1st Lt. Jack Lummus (TAK 3011)
USNS 1st Lt. Harry L. Martin (TAK 3015)
This is from a US Government site...


M/V stands for "Motor Vessel" (as opposed to S/S for "Steam Ship"). These are Maritime Prepositioning Ships.

President Bush announced on TV the other day that the Maritime Prepositioning Squadron ships based in Guam would be used in the relief effort. It's extremely strange that since then, not one MSM media (TV, Print, internet) actually quoted President Bush verbatim with regards to the Guam-based MPS.

These ships can be checked out on the Military Sealift Command website.


17 posted on 12/30/2004 8:54:09 PM PST by FDNYRHEROES (Make welfare as hard to get as a building permit)
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To: ishm

It's because we are doing it ourselves rather than give the UN the $$ to squander. W should tell the UN to finally shove it.


18 posted on 12/31/2004 3:37:31 AM PST by reaganaut (Red state girl in a Blue state world (Socialist Republic of California))
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