USS Carl Vinson:New Skipper Takes 'Gold Eagle' to Sea -- The 'Gold Eagle' departed its homeport of Bremerton, Wash., for the waters off the coast of Southern California June 1, where she will reunite with Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9 for carrier operations and training.
http://www.cvn70.navy.mil/USS Lincoln:Lincoln return delayed (May 28) -- The USS Abraham Lincoln will not return to Everett this month as planned, the Navy said Thursday.
The aircraft carrier was expected to return to its home port following 11 months of maintenance work at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton.
The Lincoln now will go straight to sea for training when it leaves the shipyard next week
http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/04/05/28/loc_lincoln001.cfmUSS Roosevelt:Off the coast of France to "bolster a flotilla of a dozen or so warships" for D-Day security.
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/8800488.htmAnd seven more carrier battle groups:Stennis, Ronald Reagan, George Washington, Kitty Hawk, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Enterprise, and several dozen escort ships, stage "massive exercise" in Pacific.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040604-9999-1m4pulse.htmlThe only carriers still in port are the Nimitz and the Eisenhower, which is out of commission while it's engine is refurbished.
Not only is the scope of this beyond unprecedented, but it was unscheduled - the Navy belatedly cancelled the family members' "Tiger Cruise," because the ships were needed for the "exercise."
Also worth noting: Concurrent with the massive deployment to the Western Pacific, the Russians are staging an "unprecedented" deployment to their Pacific coast:
MOSCOW, June 9 (Itar-Tass) - The airlifting of permanent-alert units from the European part of Russia to the Russian Far East began on Wednesday within the framework of the operational strategic military exercise, codenamed Mobility-2004.
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According to his information, it is the first time such a big redeployment of the mobile reserve and the permanent-alert units from the East to the West of the country is done in the Russian Armed Forces. “Some 800 infantrymen, paratroopers and marines, together with 100 tanks, armoured vehicles and automobiles, will be airlifted from June 9 to June 18 at a distance of several thousand kilometres.
It should be added in this connection that the redeployed units would train for several days combat operations on the unfamiliar terrain in the Far Eastern strategic area. “The Mobility-2004 military exercise is without precedent in the Russian history by the size of the territory, on which it is held, and by the variety of armed services taking part in it,” the Defence Ministry representative said.
http://itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=922561&PageNum=0Recent threads have drawn attention to unusual levels of activity by the world's navies, as well as other indicators of an anticipated calamatous world event:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1701699