Aircraft Carriers III

bd popeye said:

Wow! I can't believe I beat Jura to this bombshell story;

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The captain of the largest and most powerful ship ever built for the Royal Navy has been sacked for misusing its official car, it has been reported.

Nick Cooke-Priest is no longer in charge of the HMS Queen Elizabeth because he is believed to have driven the aircraft carrier's official car on weekends, according to The Sun.

A Royal Navy spokesman said: "We can confirm Captain Nick Cooke-Priest has been reassigned to a new role. We can only say that management action is ongoing and it would therefore be inappropriate to comment further."

Commodore Cooke-Priest, who joined the Royal Navy in 1990, had only been in command of the 280-metre, 65,000-tonne vessel, described by the Royal Navy as an "awe-inspiring warship" capable of carrying up to 40 aircraft, since last October.

He was never warned that using the Ford Galaxy for personal journeys was in breach of rules, the paper reports.

A former officer told The Sun: "Nick adores the Navy and has lost his career by doing what captains have done for decades - using the company car to get home. An innocent mistake has cost the Navy one of its best."

It is believed that major Royal Navy warships and their captains are loaned a car for use on official duties. An investigation found he had used the Ford as if it was his own, and found him guilty of an "error of judgment", according to The Sun.

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Jura said:

not sure what joke you're trying to make, man, but you should've given credit to Mr. Iqbal who was the first to inform, in the UK Thread
#3058 asif iqbal, Today at 5:40 PM

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Jura said:

not sure what joke you're trying to make, man, but you should've given credit to Mr. Iqbal who was the first to inform, in the UK Thread
#3058 asif iqbal, Today at 5:40 PM

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bd popeye said:

I did not know asif iqbal had already posted the story. So sorry. I never deliberately intend to hurt anyone's feelings. I really don't. I'm so sorry if I hurt yours.

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bd popeye said:

Wow! I can't believe I beat Jura to this bombshell story;

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Air Force Brat said:

Jura, BD was lauding your beating us all to the draw posting news all the time, he thought he had the drop on you and "scooped" you! look it up Bub, he was just pulling your leg, we have NO problem with you posting all the news you want to, 24/7, unlike your fan club with their little "snotty" thread... which really should have been closed/taken down a long time ago... come on Deino/Siege??

Anyway, BD is the nicest guy on SDF, with the possible exception of Master Jeff,,, you and I aren't nearly that nice....

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SouthernSky said:

Almost 21,000 posts in six years. In part why I don't frequent here much anymore.

Needs another hobby.

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localizer said:

i actually put him on ignore a while back because of those LOL comments.

TBH the way a forum is setup is not suitable for what we’re trying to achieve.

Either we restrict to primary sources and block most mainstream news or we need to move to reddit style and have subsections under subsections.

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Jura said:

Yesterday at 6:17 AM
now the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group inside
What The Hell Is Going On With The U.S. And The Supposed New Threat Posed By Iran?
Pompeo bolted to Iraq today as rumors swirled about Iranian missile movements, but two days into this saga we have more questions than answers.

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The U.S. Navy says it has conducted exercises in the Arabian Sea with an aircraft carrier strike group ordered to

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to counter an alleged, unspecified threat from Iran.

The Navy said Sunday the exercises and training were conducted with the

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in coordination with the U.S. Marine Corps, highlighting U.S. “lethality and agility to respond to threat,” as well as to deter conflict and preserve U.S. strategic interests.

Also taking part in exercises were

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and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, both deployed to the U.S. Fifth Fleet area of operations in the Persian Gulf.

The Navy says the exercises, conducted Friday and Saturday, included air-to-air training and steaming in formation and maneuvering.

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bd popeye said:

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An aircraft carrier is in Alaska for Exercise Northern Edge for the first time in a decade, as the service continues to prioritize re-learning how to operate in the Arctic.

Northern Edge 2019 is a high-end joint exercise hosted by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and focused on air warfare that runs May 13 through 24. About 10,000 personnel are participating, about half of which come from the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group currently operating in the Gulf of Alaska. Strike group assets include Carrier Strike Group 9 leadership, USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), Carrier Air Wing 11, USS Russell (DDG-59), USS Kidd (DDG-100), USS John Finn (DDG-113) and USNS Henry J. Kaiser (T-AO-187).

Rear Adm. Dan Dwyer, who commands the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, told USNI News in a phone call from aboard the carrier that “this is one of the premier exercises for the INDO-PACIFIC commanders. … Northern Edge is designed to sharpen all of our skills, tactical combat operating skills; improve our ability to command and control forces, establish those command relationships; develop our communication networks; with an overall goal of increasing interoperability within the joint force, particularly in the INDO-PACOM region.”

He said the exercise covers command and control over both land and maritime domains, and so “all participants, whether it’s the air wing or the destroyers, are integral to that mission set and each all plug into the higher command and control piece” to share information and work together under a single joint force commander.

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Nick Cooke-Priest is no longer in charge of the HMS Queen Elizabeth because he is believed to have driven the aircraft carrier's official car on weekends, according to The Sun.

A Royal Navy spokesman said: "We can confirm Captain Nick Cooke-Priest has been reassigned to a new role. We can only say that management action is ongoing and it would therefore be inappropriate to comment further."

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Jura said:

May 8, 2019
and yesterday was thinking while the Lincoln CSG hadn't entered the Persian Gulf yet, now I see
US conducts Navy exercises in Arabian Sea

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As tensions between the United States and Iran continue to rise and fall, a Navy carrier strike group and amphibious ready group exercised together in the Arabian Sea over the weekend in a somewhat rare training event.

Sitting just outside the Persian Gulf, the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group with embarked 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit practiced rapidly aggregating and establishing a joint command and control environment, as well as a range of air and surface warfare skills.

A Navy news release notes this joint exercise comes amid “credible threat indicators” from Iran and “highlight the ability of the U.S. Navy to quickly mobilize assets and aggregate different platforms with a variety of operational capabilities.

Rear Adm. John Wade, the commander of the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, said in the release that “the exercises and training we are doing with Amphibious Squadron Six, the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit and USS Kearsarge are aimed towards increasing our lethality and agility to respond to threats, and deterring destabilizing actions in this important region.”

The exercise included both relevant skills if the two groups were called to respond to an emerging crisis in the Persian Gulf, as well as skills that aren’t typically rehearsed due to the carrier and surface combatant community and the amphibious warship community having separate training cycles and focusing on different warfare objectives in training.

F/A-18E-F Super Hornets from USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) served as opposing force aircraft for the AV-8B Harriers off USS Kearsarge (LHD-3), giving the Harriers a higher-end opponent to train with than usual.

“I’d never had a chance to train with Harriers before,” Lt. Cmdr. Michael Scott, a pilot with Carrier Air Wing 7 who led the dissimilar air combat training event, said in the Navy’s news release.
“We also had the Harriers receive gas from our airborne F/A-18 mission tanker – something that rarely happens. It was pretty neat to see the Harrier up close in the air.”

The Super Hornets and Harriers also joined with attack helicopters from Kearsarge to conduct a joint close air support exercise, bringing together platforms that conduct CAS on their own but generally not in that combination.

CH-53E Super Stallion heavy-lift helicopters from Kearsarge had a chance to conduct deck landing qualifications on both Lincoln and Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Bainbridge (DDG-96), and Marine MV-22 Ospreys had a chance to land on the carrier as well. On the surface warfare side, a maritime raid force from 22nd MEU conducted visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) training and a fast-roping exercise with Bainbridge.

“This tactical fluency across platforms allows us to efficiently traverse any waters uncontested and readily employ our military assets anywhere, at any time, as demonstrated through this interoperability between Kearsarge and the carrier strike group,” Capt. Jason Rimmer, commanding officer of Kearsarge, said in the news release.

The exercises took place on May 17 and 18. Earlier in the month, the Lincoln CSG was on a routine deployment and operating in the Mediterranean Sea, and the Kearsarge ARG and 22nd MEU were also on a routine deployment in U.S. 5th Fleet, with USS Arlington (LPD-24) operating in the Mediterranean as has become routine during ARG/MEU deployments.

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from National Security Advisor John Bolton cited “a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings” from Iran as reason for a naval buildup. The Lincoln CSG was rushed through the Suez Canal and into 5th Fleet waters, and an Air Force bomber task force was deployed to the U.S. Central Command area of operations.

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a further buildup of forces, as

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and a Patriot air defense battery was sent to the region.

“The United States does not seek conflict with Iran, but we are postured and ready to defend U.S. forces and interests in the region,” reads that DoD statement.

Tensions appeared to simmer, after

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that President Donald Trump was not interested in a fight with Iran and wanted to find a diplomatic solution. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said last week he did not seek a war with the United States,

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However, over the weekend, just after the Lincoln CSG and Kearsarge ARG drills ended, a rocket hit the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, less than a mile from the U.S. embassy there.

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that Iraqi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasoul told AP reporters the military was investigating but that the rocket was believed to have been fired from east Baghdad, home to Iran-backed Shiite militias.

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after the attack, “If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!”

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