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USS Theodore Roosevelt Begins  COMPTUEX

Story Number: NNS150109-05
Release Date:  1/9/2015 9:05:00 AM

By Mass Comm Spec Seaman Apprentice Alex  Millar
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) Public  Affairs

NORFOLK (NNS) — The aircraft carrier USS Theodore  Roosevelt (CVN 71) and 
embarked Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 12 staff  departed Naval Station Norfolk 
to begin Composite Training Unit Exercise  (COMPTUEX), Jan 8.

Theodore Roosevelt will join the rest  of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier 
Strike Group (TRCSG) to conduct COMPTUEX,  which tests TRCSG's ability to 
effectively react to real-world scenarios and  perform as an integrated unit.

"Carrier Strike Group 4 is  evaluating how the battle group defends itself, 
how it projects power and how  well they execute pre-planned responses to 
multiple types of scenarios," said  Master Chief Cryptologic Technician 
(Technical) Todd Womack, CSG 4's senior  enlisted advisor, from Cottonwood, 
Alabama.

Throughout COMPTUEX,  Theodore Roosevelt will face training scenarios that 
simulate  real-world situations the ship could encounter during its upcoming 
 deployment.

"TR and her crew will be conducting numerous  flight operations, 
identifying contacts and displaying the information to the  entire strike group," said 
Operations Specialist 2nd Class Jeffery Lain,  tactical data coordinator 
aboard TR.

"We will be as  tactical as possible while performing in a carrier 
environment during a  realistic wartime scenario," said Lt. Jeffery Mayer, an 
F/A-18F Super Hornet  pilot from the "Red Rippers" of Strike Fighter Attack 
Squadron (VFA)  11.

Following the successful completion of COMPTUEX, CSG 4 will  declare TR 
capable of worldwide operations and ready for its upcoming  deployment. TRCSG 
is comprised of Carrier Strike Group 12 staff, Destroyer  Squadron (DESRON) 2 
staff, USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), Carrier Air  Wing (CVW) 1, and the 
DESRON 2 ships; the guided-missile destroyers USS  Forrest Sherman (DDG 98), 
USS Farragut (DDG 99), and USS  Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), as well as 
the guided-missile cruiser  USS Normandy (CG 60).

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