The Nimitz-class USS Harry S. Truman and USS Abraham Lincoln began
dual-carrier qualification operations Wednesday in the western Atlantic
Ocean, the U.S. Navy announced this week.
"By training and operating together, the USS Harry S. Truman and USS
Abraham Lincoln strike groups enhance combat readiness and
interoperability, and also demonstrate the inherent flexibility and
scalability of carrier strike groups," Rear Adm. Gene Black, commander
of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group Commander, said in a press
release.
"The opportunity to conduct complex, multi-unit training better prepares
us to answer our nation's call to carry out a full range of missions,
at anytime, anywhere around the globe," Black said.
The operations include a war-at-sea exercise with strike and air
operation scenarios testing the readiness of units to carry out strike,
air and formation operations.
"We are the best Navy in the world, and given the complex and
competitive environment we are in, we can't take anything for granted or
settle for the status quo," Abraham Lincoln Strike Group Commander Rear
Adm. John Wade said.
Both ships are currently deployed, with the Truman conducting operations
in the Atlantic and the Lincoln also in the Atlantic conducting
Operational Test-1 to integrate the F-35C into operations with the
carrier, other aircraft and Carrier Strike Group 12.
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