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Jul 15, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
The #fire continues to burn: US #Navy SURFOR SITREP statement as of 0900 EDT/0600 PDT Wed 15 July: "As of 0600 am Pacific time July 15 firefighting teams continue operations on board USS #BONHOMME RICHARD LHD6. 63 personnel - 40 Sailors & 23 civilians -
"...have been treated for minor injuries including heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation. Currently, there are no personnel hospitalized. Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron THREE has conducted more than 1,500 helicopter water bucket drops, which is cooling the super structure and...
"...flight deck enabling fire crews to get onboard internally to fight the fire." End of statement. The video shows firefighting efforts on Tuesday 14 July

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Nov 10, 2023
More US Navy aircraft carriers are underway right now than at any point in quite some years - 8 of 11. Four are deployed: GERALD R FORD CVN78 in the Mediterranean Sea; DWIGHT D EISENHOWER CVN69 in the Red Sea; RONALD REAGAN CVN76 and CARL VINSON CVN70 in the western Pacific...


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...GEORGE WASHINGTON CVN73 is working up off the US East Coast before heading next year to Japan; on the West Coast NIMITZ CVN68, THEODORE ROOSEVELT CVN71 and ABRAHAM LINCOLN CVN72 all are in various stages of training. The remaining 3 are in overhaul:


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..JOHN C STENNIS CVN74 in the midst of her major mid-life RCOH refuling overhaul at Newport News Shipbuilding; HARRY S TRUMAN CVN75 in the back half of a year-long overhaul at Norfolk Naval Shipyard; and GEORGE HW BUSH CVN77 is in pierside maintenance at Norfolk Naval Station

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Nov 9, 2023
Construction of the first Multimission Surface Combatant for Saudi Arabia is proceeding at @FincantieriUS in Marinette WI as seen in these 17 Oct CavasShips photos. A much-modified version of Lockheed Martin's Freedom-class littoral combat ship, the 4 Saudi MMSCs are externally..


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...similar but have many internal changes and will be more heavily armed. The Saudi ships wil be painted overall unlike US Navy Freedom-class which have painted hulls and nautral aluminum supertructures. LM is prime for this program lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products…
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The bridge superstructure for the first Saudi MMSC already has a coat of primer. These sections are fabricated at Fincantieri Marine Group's Ace Marine facility in Green Bay Image
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Oct 15, 2023
Important note about US aircraft carrier movements: so far the vast majority of what is being seen is normal, scheduled and not a direct response to current events. The GERALD R FORD CVN78 strike group has been operating for months in the Mediterranean Sea and is approaching..
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..the scheduled conclusion of its cruise, to be relieved by the DWIGHT D EISENHOWER CVN69 group, who left the US East Coast 13/14 Oct. The RONALD REAGAN CVN76 is on a normal western Pacific deployment, scheduled to be relieved by the CARL VINSON CVN70, who left San Diego 12 Oct..

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... The move of the FORD to the eastern part of the Med in response to the Hamas/Israel war is part of why that group is deployed - they respond to crises. Also of note: the BATAAN LHD5 Amphibious Ready Group was moved to the Persian Gulf in early August in response to ...
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Aug 17, 2023
1/5 #Cruisers last week at Norfolk (all but the last on 12 Aug). Getting Set To Go: PHILIPPINE SEA CG58 having wrapped up pre-deployment exercises with the DWIGHT EISENHOWER CVN69 Strike Group, will deploy in a few weeks to European Command as the carrier's air defense escort.
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2/5 Recouperating and Refitting: LEYTE GULF CG55, returned in April from a Mediterranean Sea deployment with the GEORGE H W BUSH CVN77 Strike Group, seen undergoing a pierside availability
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3/5 Will Deploy Next Year: GETTYSBURG CG64, the only 1 of 7 cruisers inducted into the Cruiser Modernization Program to return to service, seen looking spiffy in the early stages of readiness. She should deploy in 2024 for the first time since 2014 (!)
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Jun 19, 2023
From the just-concluded US Coast Guard briefing on missing submersible TITAN diving on TITANIC with 5 people aboard, conducted by RADM John Mauger of the 1st CG District in Boston: dive believed to have begun Sunday 18 June; last comms from craft were about 1 hour & 40 mins... ImageImageImage
...into the dive. Understand craft has a 96-hour endurance. USCG was notified Sunday the craft was missing. Two USCG C-130s, a Canadian Coast Guard CC-130 and Canadian Navy CP-140 Aurora are also searching. Sonobuoys have been dropped from the aircraft and the expedition ship...
...POLAR PRINCE also has sonar, all with capability to search to the depth of 13,000 feet. Search is on the surface in case the craft came up and also in the water column. A New York Air National Guard C-130 will join this evening and additional ships and aircraft are en route
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Mar 13, 2023
#FY24Budget Navy briefing slides 1) Overall Department of the Navy funding; shipbuilding; Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan (SIOP) and industrial base
2) Aircraft procurement; Weapons procurement; R&D Research and Development; Ship maintenance and ship operations
3) Fleet Marine Force operations; Aircraft depot and air operations; Military construction; Pacific and European Deterrence Initiatives
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