( TNG movie: Star Trek Nemesis)Īssault battalions: 4th Torgu-Va Assault Battalion Fortunately, the Enterprise was able to destroy the warbird at the Battle of Bassen Rift, and the Battle Group didn't engage. The USS Enterprise-E was to rendezvous with the Battle Group, but was instead ambushed in the Bassen Rift by the Scimitar. Star Fleet Battle Group Omega was a task force, a battle group military unit of Federation starships deployed in Sector 1045 by Vice admiral Kathryn Janeway in 2379, and was charged with preventing the Reman warbird Scimitar from reaching Earth and launching a deadly thalaron weapon. You may be looking for Battle Group Omega in 2409.

Some say that with anti- ship missiles and a changing warrior world, there is a need for fewer or none.This article is about the 2379 task force. Otherwise, the United States will have a fundamentally different Navy, unable to handle forward deployment duties, he said. 'We need to be very careful about going any smaller,' he said. There's talk about cutting construction programs for submarines, carriers and other ships. Right now, the Navy is focusing on surviving the Bush administration's plan to review the armed forces budget with its ships and planes intact. 'There's a pucker factor associated with explosives,' Mullen said. Everyone that handles the bombs, from those that build them to the mechanics that make sure they're ready to go on the jets to the pilots that drop them - everyone - acts just a little differently when it's a live one instead of the dummies that the Navy's been forced to train with. 'One of the most difficult things is to find that target for the first time, and Vieques was the only place on the East Coast where we could string it all together.'Īnd it's not just the pilots. Winnefeld, a former instructor at the Navy's now famous Top Gun jet fighter school and a former commanding officer of a fighter squadron, said the training that Vieques supplied gives pilots more confidence for their combat missions. Those kinds of drills, they say, also help prevent the kinds of accidents like the recent one in Kuwait. Navy officials say there's nothing like a live drill to keep all of their pilots, mechanics and other crew members sharp and better prepared. And maybe, too, they'll be able to do the right kind of training - such as the live-munitions exercises they had been doing in Vieques, near Puerto Rico, before those drills were canceled because of local protests. That way, the Navy officers say, maybe they'll be able to get the spare parts and jets they need. said, 'We feel it is important to tell the Navy's story.' There are fewer and fewer members of Congress with a military background, and it becomes more important to expose them and their constituencies to see what we do.'Įnterprise Capt. I think the taxpayers have a right to see what we're doing. 'They are a very important part of what we do for a living. Second Fleet and commander of the Striking Fleet Atlantic. 'I've been taking civilians to sea as a commanding officer since 1985,' said Vice Adm. This time, it's to see joint war games with the Enterprise carrier group, as well as the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier group and the ships of allies as well. Oh, yes, despite the recent mishap on the submarine USS Greeneville - where a surfacing drill with civilians aboard sank the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru, killing nine people - the Navy still welcomes civilians aboard.

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