[MilCom] Fwd: [MilRadioComms] USS Theodore Roosevelt C2X

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http://jaxairnews.jacksonville.com/military/jax-air-news/2015-01-14/story/ca
rrier-strike-group-4-kicks-comptuex
 
Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 4 kicked off the Composite Training Unit  
Exercise (COMPTUEX) with the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group (TRCSG)  Jan. 
8.
 
Residents in neighborhoods surrounding NAS Jax, Outlying Landing Field  
Whitehouse and Pinecastle Range Complex may notice an increase in aircraft  
activity and noise during this training period starting Jan. 15 through Feb.  
4. 
COMPTUEX, the cornerstone event for CSG-4, is an evaluation that tests  the 
mission-readiness of deployable assets as it relates to their ability to  
react to training scenarios and perform as an integrated unit. Training  
scenarios include simulated surface, air, undersea, strike and electronic  
attacks. 
“Carrier Strike Group 4 is evaluating how the battle group defends  itself, 
how it projects power and how well it executes pre-planned responses to  
multiple types of scenarios,” said CTTCM Todd Womack, CSG-4’s Senior Enlisted 
 Advisor from Cottonwood, Ala. 
TRCSG consists of CSG-12, Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 2, Carrier Air  Wing 
(CVW) 1, USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), USS Normandy (CG 60), USS Winston  
S. Churchill (DDG 81), USS Forrest Sherman (DDG 98) and USS Farragut (DDG 
99).  Independent deployers USS McFaul (DDG 74) and USS Laboon (DDG 58) will 
also  participate in the TRCSG COMPTUEX, which will serve as their 
deployment  certification.  
Conducting COMPTUEX is a major undertaking. CSG-4 plans for months and  
employs a number of military and civilian personnel at sea, in the air and on  
land to prepare units to forward deploy in support and defense of national  
interests. 
“We have 132 people onboard TR alone with, on average, six personnel on  
each of the escort ships. We have about 60 more Sailors and civilians on the  
beach supporting this evolution, not only as trainers and assessors, but as  
pilots for the simulated Opposition Forces (OPFOR) aircraft and Mobile Sea 
Range  (MSR) vessels,” said Womack. 
“As you can see, an evolution of this magnitude takes a lot of people  and 
resources to make happen to ensure that the Battle Group is ready for  
whatever task they could possibly have assigned to them when on deployment.” 
COMPTUEX supports the Navy’s mission of training to improve  capabilities 
of service members who are warfighters preparing to be ready to  operate 
forward when the nation calls. 
Commanded by Rear Adm. Richard Butler, CSG-4 is a team of experienced  
Sailors, Marines, government civilians and reservists, who mentor, train and  
assess Atlantic Fleet combat forces to forward deploy. CSG-4’s experts shape 
the  readiness of Atlantic Fleet CSGs, Expeditionary Strike Groups (ESG), 
Amphibious  Readiness Groups (ARG) and Independent Deploying ships.  
Formerly known as Commander Strike Force Training Atlantic (CSFTL),  CSG-4, 
along with subordinate commands, Tactical Training Group Atlantic (TTGL)  
and Expeditionary Warfare Training Group Atlantic (EWTGL), prepare every  
Atlantic-based CSG, ARG and Independent Deployer for sustained,  
forward-deployed, high tempo operations.
 
AL STERN  Satellite Beach  FL
AllanStern at aol.com
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