against the NATO member perpetrator
[MRT: The fast resupply has been done in a haste on the sea and with helicopters]
29 Sept 2022: The US Navy aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford @Warship_78, will deploy next week and operate throughout the North Atlantic during a short deployment surrounded by a multi-national #NATO Strike Group.
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[MRT: One important flag is missing - the UK. The deployment is for unspecified time. It includes unnamed port call.]
29 Sept 2022 Comment by Paul Mc Leary:
"FIVE years after its commission, the Navy's $13.3 billion, much-delayed new aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford will head for Europe next month, but the Navy won't call it a deployment...
The term of art is a “service-retained deployment,” which no one can fully explain, but basically means it's going out with part of an air wing, and will practice with NATO allies in the Atlantic...
The Navy won't say how long it'll be at sea, but does say the ship will remain under 2nd Fleet control, instead of under a combatant commander...
The Ford will exercise w/ ships from Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden in the N. Atlantic.
It'll make a port call, but the Navy won't say where...
Keep an eye on Norway however, as the Norwegian defense minister just visited the ship at its home port in Virginia last week.
The Ford will go on its first actual deployment, where it is under the operational control of a combatant commander, some time in 2023, 14 years after construction began and a decade after it was put in the water."
[MRT: Again not UK flag in the group.]
19 Oct 2022 - NATO: NATO Partnerships in Action: Allied Officers Serve Aboard Ford
Two officers belonging to NATO nations, Germany and Spain are walking the deck plates of the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) to enhance integration with allies and partners during Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group’s (GRFCSG) deployment.
23 October 2022 - CARRIER STRIKE GROUP 4 EXERCISE ENHANCES BEGINNING OF GERALD R. FORD INAUGURAL DEPLOYMENT WITH NATO ALLIES
NORFOLK, Va. -- The Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group and ships from three North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries completed a three-week exercise orchestrated by Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 4 called Task Force Exercise (TFEX) 23-2 from Oct. 5 to 23.
The exercise coincided with GRFCSG’s inaugural deployment with Nato allied nations in the Atlantic.
One ship each from the three Nato countries, including Spain, Canada and Germany, participated in the exercise.
Participating vessels included the Royal Canadian Navy’s Halifax-class frigate HMCS Fredericton (FFH 337), Spanish Navy’s Alvaro De Bazan-class ship ESPS Alvaro De Bazan (F 101) and German Navy’s Sachsen-class ship FGS Hessen (F 221).
[MRT: Again not UK flag in the group.]
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), the U.S. Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, joined six NATO allies for exercise Silent Wolverine in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, Nov. 8, 2022. Exercise participants include Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United States.
[MRT: Again not UK flag in the group.]
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