[MilCom] Any of you East Coasters get any of this?

[Greg Brazil]

Greg (SF Bay Area)

 From USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Public Affairs

USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, At Sea (NNS) -- The Norfolk-based aircraft 
carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) responded to a distress signal 
from a civilian vessel in the early morning of Nov. 7, resulting in the 
rescue of three Canadian civilian mariners from an overturned sailboat, 
approximately 300 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, N.C.

Coordination between the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy 2nd Fleet 
Maritime Operations Center resulted in the identification of the 
Eisenhower as a logistics platform, due to the ship's medical personnel 
and refueling capabilities for supporting aircraft, as the best 
available asset to render aid.

The Eisenhower then quickly steamed toward the mariners. Soon afterward, 
a Coast Guard helicopter landed on the ship's flight deck to refuel and 
pick up one of the ship's flight surgeons to help with the rescue. The 
helicopter team then rescued the mariners in distress and flew them to a 
hospital in North Carolina.

"I'm very proud of the amazing work the Eisenhower team accomplished to 
save the lives of these mariners in danger", said Capt. Dee Mewbourne, 
the ship's commanding officer. "From the Medical Department that helped 
treat the injured, to the Air Department that refueled the helicopter, 
to the bridge team that navigated the ship to where it needed to be, and 
to the Engineering and reactor departments that gave us the power to get 
there, all did a great job working together to make it happen safely and 
efficiently. It's this teamwork, within the ship and with our colleagues 
in the Coast Guard, that make our Maritime forces the best on the world."

Eisenhower is conducting a Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) 
in preparation for its upcoming 2010 deployment. COMPTUEX, scheduled by 
Commander, U.S. Second Fleet (C2F) and conducted by a training team led 
by Commander, Strike Force Training Atlantic (CSFTL), is a 
joint/combined exercise conducted off the East Coast of the United States.