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USS George Washington Sailors

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For family members of sailors who are on the USS GW on their way to be stationed in Japan

Members: 284
Latest Activity: Jun 27, 2024

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Don’t Jeopardize the Safety of Our Sailors: Remember OPSEC (Operational Security)
(Don’t Sink Ships With Loose Lips)
The following are examples of red flags and should not be shared within this community either by posting or sending via a Group message:
• No Sailor addresses, emails, or other contact information. The exception to this rule is FPO addresses.
• Specific dates, times, and locations regarding current or future deployments and ship movements. Do not post dates more specific than by month. Do not post specific ports of call, deployment bases, or future destinations.
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Comment by BeachBunny on November 22, 2015 at 11:51pm: Am thinking theya are super busy, since they are in the middle of the UNTAS LANT inetrnational exreices: Post by Navy on Nov. 16th:

ATLANTIC OCEAN (NNS) -- Sailors assigned to aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), Carrier Strike Group NINE (CSG 9), Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 23 to include USS Chafee (DDG 90) and USS McFaul (DDG 74) and embarked Carrier Air Wing TWO (CVW 2) began UNITAS Atlantic (LANT) Nov. 14, a multinational exercise in the USSOUTHCOM region.

UNITAS LANT is scheduled for Nov. 14-25. Brazil will host the exercise with participation from Cameroon, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, United Kingdom and United States.

"UNITAS demonstrates the strength of our relationships with partner nations and our continued commitment to the South America region," said Rear Adm. Lisa Franchetti, commander, CSG 9. "This exercise provides unique training opportunities between George Washington Strike Group and 11 partner navies that enhance interoperability and allow our personnel to gain experience in a multinational task force training environment."

While the overarching goal is to develop and test command and control of forces at sea, training in this exercise will address the spectrum of maritime operations. Specifically, there will be scenarios addressing electronic warfare, anti-air warfare and air defense, anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare and maritime interdiction operations, and joint exercises with the Brazilian Air Force.

"Another component of UNITAS LANT, a bi-lateral exercise between CVW 2 and the Brazilian Air Force, will increase tactical procedures and voice/data communications interoperability and provides a venue to develop and standardize tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) to support multinational maritime engagement," said Lt. Dave Gardner, the operations officer of Destroyer Squadron 23.

Washington is deployed as part of Southern Seas 2015 which seeks to enhance interoperability, increase regional stability and build and maintain relationships with countries throughout the region through joint, multinational and interagency exchanges and cooperation.

For more news from USS George Washington (CVN 73), visit www.navy.mil/local/cvn73/.

Comment by Momof5 on November 22, 2015 at 11:38pm: Any news from our sailors? Has been rather quiet. I guess they're busy working hard.

Comment by aster on November 20, 2015 at 11:09pm: Same this happened to me when I contacted the ombudsman when my son was on the Reagan....I think it might be due to the type of jobs our sons have....

Comment by MaggieMay on November 20, 2015 at 12:45pm: Keeping my fingers crossed for a tiger cruise! My son is leaving the GW for a short period of time to go back to school but then he'll head back to the ship. I would love to go on a tiger cruise! Now I just gotta hope it doesn't happen until my son gets back on the ship!

Comment by sethsmom on November 20, 2015 at 11:43am: A tiger cruise would be awesome! We were under the impression the ship was going directly into repair. Looks like the delay on the Lincoln is a fortunate delay for us

Comment by BeachBunny on November 20, 2015 at 10:30am: Good Morn GW Group....

This information was on the ships FB page...is this the contact you have too?

Chandra Beasley
Sara McFarland
Eileen Marcus
Arlette Mendoza

Tel:
757-598-4382

Email: cvn73ombudsman@gmail.com
Website:
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/uss.ombudsman

Comment by CountryGirl on November 19, 2015 at 11:36pm: Ok so I accidentally deleted my last comment. No it is the USS Lincoln. We have different shipyards here in the Norfolk area. No deployments just in & outs but with that said with the world events any ships movements can change.

Comment by Aliyah on November 19, 2015 at 11:04pm: Ok @countrygirl thank you! That doesn't mean they will go on a deployment right? Just in & out, do you know if they will be long?.. It's all confusing to me because I thought they didn't have to go anywhere which made me so excited but now this depressing news that I didn't even know of.

Comment by Island Girl on November 19, 2015 at 10:17pm: Would that carrier be the Bush you are talking about being in the shipyard? That is my sons ship. It went in last May!