Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group deploys after historic training exercise 13newsnow.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from 13newsnow.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
To prepare for the deployment, the strike group did was what the Navy calls LVC training. It stands for “live, virtual, and constructive” and involves a mix of operating real ships and aircraft with virtual ones.
Share This:
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower alongside USNS Kanawha for a replenishment-at-sea, February 4, 2021. US Navy/MCS Seaman Ryan Childress
After spending a record-long deployment last year stuck on their ships due to coronavirus restrictions, the crews of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft-carrier strike group are heading out again with the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in their arms.
Being able to vaccinate most of the strike group’s sailors is a relief after a frustrating year of outbreaks and restrictions at sea, according to Vice Adm. Andrew Lewis, who oversees Navy operations on the East Coast as head of 2nd Fleet.
Navy Will Make COVID-19 Vaccination Mandatory As Soon as We Can: 3-Star Admiral
Hospitalman Roman Silvestri administers one of the first COVID-19 vaccines given at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth to Cmdr. Joseph Kotora, Dec. 15, 2020. (U.S. Navy/Seaman Imani N. Daniels)
12 Feb 2021
Thousands of Navy personnel are about to receive the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine ahead of an upcoming deployment and while sailors aren t required to take the shot yet, they soon could be.
Members of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group will get the option to receive the first dose of the vaccine for COVID-19, the sometimes-fatal illness caused by the coronavirus, on Saturday. So far, about 80% of the crew roughly 5,000 strike group members say they intend to get the shots, Vice Adm. Andrew Lewis, U.S. Second Fleet commander, told reporters Friday.
USNI News
Top Stories 2020: International Naval Operations
December 30, 2020 12:03 PM
Motor Tanker (M/T) Wila, a merchant vessel in international waters en-route to the UAE port of Khor Fakkan, in the Gulf of Oman, was boarded by armed Iranian personnel who fast roped aboard the ship from an Iranian Sea King helicopter as it hovered above on Aug. 12, 2020. US Navy Photo
This post is part of a series of stories looking back at the
.
Like the U.S., international navies grappled with not only the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic but regional security concerns from China’s naval expansion and operations in the Pacific to Iranian and Russian operations in the Middle East.