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Your Navy TODAY (Mar. 22, 2012)

March 22, 2012 Aviation, Deployment, Inside the Navy, Leadership, Navy Life, Sailing Directions, Sailors, Surface

On any given day, in your Navy, our team of more than 600,000 professional Sailors and Civilians are working together around the globe to perform our mission: deter aggression and, if deterrence fails, win our Nation’s wars. It is not possible to share every aspect of this global team but, through this blog, we offer you a glimpse of what these men and women do.

 

Ships with the Enterprise Carrier Strike Group (CSG) maneuver into formation while transiting the Atlantic Ocean. The strike group is deployed to support maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility.

 

An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 22 lifts off from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) during a vertical replenishment with USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). George H.W. Bush is in the Atlantic Ocean conducting carrier qualifications.

 

Fire Marshal Chief Warrant Officer Dave Hinds directs members of the at-sea fire party as they respond to simulated flooding aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 are deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.

 

Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) the Honorable Ray Mabus, right, and Rutgers University President Richard L. McCormick sign documents formally establishing the Navy ROTC at Rutgers University. Mabus also delivered remarks to faculty and staff, thanking them for their help with bringing the program to Rutgers.

 

Navy Personnel
Active Duty:   323,773
Officers Officers:   53,120
Enlisted Enlisted:   266,146
Midshipmen Midshipmen:   4,507
Ready Reserve:   105,157 [As of Feb 2012 ]
Selected Reserves Selected Reserves: 64,118
Individual Ready Reserve Individual Ready Reserve: 41,039
Reserves currently mobilized:   4,763 [As of 13 Mar 2012]
Personnel on deployment:   47,943
Navy Department Civilian Employees:   203,609
Ships and Submarines
Deployable Battle Force Ships: 282
Total Ships Underway Total Ships Underway: 102 (36% of total)
Deployed Ships Underway Deployed Ships Underway: 65 (23% of total)
Attack Submarines Underway Attack Submarines Underway: 33
Other Underway Other Underway: 37 (13% of total)
Total Ships Deployed/Underway Total Ships Deployed/Underway: 137 (49% of total)
Ships Underway
Underway Aircraft Carriers:
              USS Enterprise (CVN 65) – Atlantic Ocean
              USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) – Atlantic Ocean
              USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) – 5th Fleet
              USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) – 5th Fleet
              USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) – Atlantic Ocean
Underway Amphibious Assault Ships:
              USS Essex (LHD 2) – 7th Fleet
              USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) – 7th Fleet
              USS Makin Island (LHD 8) – 5th Fleet

Aircraft (operational): 3700+

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