Yes this summer another "Summer Pluse" excersise is scheduled.
But in addition to that the USN will be sending one of it's CVN's from the Atlantic to the Pacific . The ship, Enterprise, will return to Norfolk when done.
Gee I wonder why the USN is doing this? Yea like I don't know!
Atlantic carrier tagged for Pacific cruise
By DALE EISMAN, The Virginian-Pilot
© February 16, 2006
WASHINGTON — Eager to demonstrate its flexibility and showcase the Pentagon’s sharpening focus on China, the Navy has announced plans to send a Norfolk-based aircraft carrier on an unusual Pacific Ocean cruise this summer.
The Enterprise apparently will make the Pacific run as part of a deployment that is expected to begin in May. Navy spokesmen in Washington and Honolulu, headquarters of the Pacific Fleet, declined Wednesday to identify the carrier but the Navy Times newspaper said Adm. Gary Roughead, the Pacific Fleet commander, confirmed it will be the Enterprise.
Roughead outlined plans for an Atlantic-to-Pacific deployment in a speech Tuesday in Washington. The Navy will have four carriers engaged in a variety of exercises in the Pacific during the summer, he said, the most such activity in at least a decade.
Capt. Matt Brown, a spokesman for Roughead, said the Norfolk-based carrier selected for the trip will operate in the western Pacific during August in conjunction with a Pacific Fleet carrier, which he also declined to identify .
Navy carriers typically operate as part of battle groups, with a supporting cast of cruisers, destroyers and submarines. How many of those ships will participate in the summer exercises also was unclear Wednesday.
The Pacific deployment is thought to be the first in at least a decade for an Atlantic-based carrier. It comes on the heels of the publication earlier this month of the Pentagon’s “Quadrennial Defense Review,” a planning document that called for shifting additional naval resources from the Atlantic to the Pacific and identified China as a potential rival to U.S. naval power in the region.
The review said the Navy will maintain six operational carriers in the Pacific, with five others assigned to the Atlantic Fleet after the expected retirement this year of the Mayport, Fla.-based John F. Kennedy.
Because one carrier typically is undergoing major repairs and is out of service for two or three years at a stretch, the decision to keep six operational flattops in the Pacific means that at times only four will be available in the Atlantic.
The review also called for assign ing 60 percent of the Navy’s attack submarines to the Pacific; those ships now are divided roughly evenly between Atlantic and Pacific.
Brown stressed that the summer exercise is not a precursor to relocation of a Norfolk-based carrier to the Pacific. The participating ship will return to Hampton Roads at the end of its deployment, he said.
Reach Dale Eisman at (703) 913-9872 or [email protected].
But in addition to that the USN will be sending one of it's CVN's from the Atlantic to the Pacific . The ship, Enterprise, will return to Norfolk when done.
Gee I wonder why the USN is doing this? Yea like I don't know!
Atlantic carrier tagged for Pacific cruise
By DALE EISMAN, The Virginian-Pilot
© February 16, 2006
WASHINGTON — Eager to demonstrate its flexibility and showcase the Pentagon’s sharpening focus on China, the Navy has announced plans to send a Norfolk-based aircraft carrier on an unusual Pacific Ocean cruise this summer.
The Enterprise apparently will make the Pacific run as part of a deployment that is expected to begin in May. Navy spokesmen in Washington and Honolulu, headquarters of the Pacific Fleet, declined Wednesday to identify the carrier but the Navy Times newspaper said Adm. Gary Roughead, the Pacific Fleet commander, confirmed it will be the Enterprise.
Roughead outlined plans for an Atlantic-to-Pacific deployment in a speech Tuesday in Washington. The Navy will have four carriers engaged in a variety of exercises in the Pacific during the summer, he said, the most such activity in at least a decade.
Capt. Matt Brown, a spokesman for Roughead, said the Norfolk-based carrier selected for the trip will operate in the western Pacific during August in conjunction with a Pacific Fleet carrier, which he also declined to identify .
Navy carriers typically operate as part of battle groups, with a supporting cast of cruisers, destroyers and submarines. How many of those ships will participate in the summer exercises also was unclear Wednesday.
The Pacific deployment is thought to be the first in at least a decade for an Atlantic-based carrier. It comes on the heels of the publication earlier this month of the Pentagon’s “Quadrennial Defense Review,” a planning document that called for shifting additional naval resources from the Atlantic to the Pacific and identified China as a potential rival to U.S. naval power in the region.
The review said the Navy will maintain six operational carriers in the Pacific, with five others assigned to the Atlantic Fleet after the expected retirement this year of the Mayport, Fla.-based John F. Kennedy.
Because one carrier typically is undergoing major repairs and is out of service for two or three years at a stretch, the decision to keep six operational flattops in the Pacific means that at times only four will be available in the Atlantic.
The review also called for assign ing 60 percent of the Navy’s attack submarines to the Pacific; those ships now are divided roughly evenly between Atlantic and Pacific.
Brown stressed that the summer exercise is not a precursor to relocation of a Norfolk-based carrier to the Pacific. The participating ship will return to Hampton Roads at the end of its deployment, he said.
Reach Dale Eisman at (703) 913-9872 or [email protected].
