- Ship & Group Locations Checked / Updated (5/10, 11)
- POMOR-2012: Naval EX with Russia and Norway (May 11-16)
SHIP LOGS:
April 30
- FS Dixmude (LHD): at Reunion Island April 30 to May 7
May 2
- FS Cassard (DDG): complete participation in GULF 2012 Exercise off UAE (4/28 – 5/2)
May 8
- USS J. Dunham (DDG-109): Leads USS Farragut, O. Austin, Carr and Klakring on Strait Transit EX in Atlantic on May 8th (...assigned escort for Ike CSG)
May 9
- USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19): sailors tour Australian frigate (FFH-155) Ballarat, conduct VERTREPs and PASSEX
- USS Simpson (FFG-56): at Souda Bay, Crete; Participating in Phoenix Express (...currently on APS patrol)
- USNS Mercy (T-AH-19): at Pearl harbor, Hawaii
May 10
- USS Underwood (FFG-36): assists a stranded Peruvian fishing vessel in the Pacific (...currently on SOUTHCOM deployment)
May 11
- HMS Montrose (FFG): returns to Plymouth, UK from S. Atlantic patrol (...relieved by HMS Dauntless ...Montrose begins maintenance phase, removed from Log)
- USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19): at Jakarta, Indonesia
GROUND UNITS LOGS:
- Ground units locations updated per DOD reports, up to (May 11)
- AFGHANISTAN: (5/2) French forces complete a resupply operation for FOB Tageb and Nijrab in Kapisa, Afghanistan
- AFGHANISTAN: (5/7) French Battle Group Steel relieves BG Tiger @ Kapisa (...see log for ORBAT)
- AFGHANISTAN: (5/8) UK 36 Engineer Regiment training Afghan EOD Teams in Helmand
- CHAD: (4/26) French Tactical Insertion & Civilian Evacuation Exercise, 70km NE of capital (ORBAT updated)
- KFOR: (4/25) General Ainsi visits post near Serb border, escorted by French 3rd Hussards regiment
- RUSSIA: (5/12) six islamic rebels killed in Dagestan 10-days after bombings killed 15
NOTEWORTHY NEWS:
May 10
- FRANCE: Hollande establishes policy to end French dominance in Africa (...Sarkozy did too, then changed his mind after getting in office)
- RUSSIA: Russian security personnel foil plot by Chechen rebels to attack the winter Olympics in Sochi, Russian forces in Abkhazia raid supply base, find explosives, anti-aircraft missiles and detonators, blame Chechen rebel leader Umarov and Georgian Intelligence for plot
- USA: USS Lake Erie (CG) tests new Naval ABM (Standard Missile SM-3 Block 1B) off Hawaii; successfully destroys SRBM target missile launched from facility on Kauai, Hawaii with it's guided kinetic-kill warhead; SM-3 is an essential componant of the ABM system being built in Europe, and slated to be operational and deployed by 2015. (...2015 deployment noted on grid)
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