June 4th Update

SHIP LOCATIONS:

• Ship & Group Locations Checked / Updated (6/1-4)

SHIP LOGS:

June 1

• HMS Westminster (FFG): @ Dubai, soldier goes missing
  
• USNS Mercy (T-AH-19): @ North Sulawesi, Indonesia, begin PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP 2012
• USS Ponce (LPD-15): Deploys to CENTCOM, reconfigured as Sea Base (helicopter / patrol boat mother ship)

June 2

• PLAAN Zhenghe (FFG): Chinese training ship arrives at Taranto, Italy
  

June 4

• FS Cmdt Herminier (FFG): @ Tema, Ghana on four day official visit
  

June 5

• HMS Dauntless (DDG): @ Ghana for 8-days
  

GROUND UNITS LOGS:

• Ground units locations updated per DOD reports, up to (June 2)
• KFOR: NATO troops clash with Serbs in Kosovo after barricades were removed, 6-injured

• US 1^st Armored Division, 3^rd Brigade, 5^th Infantry Regiment, 2^nd Battalion, HQ – KIA @ Charkh, Logar Province, Afghanistan
• US 1^st Armored Division, 3^rd Brigade, 5^th Infantry Regiment, 2^nd Battalion – KIA @ Charkh, Logar Province, Afghanistan
• US 1^st Armored Division, 3^rd Brigade, 41^st Infantry Regiment, 1^st Battalion – KIA @ Charkh, Logar Province, Afghanistan

NOTEWORTHY NEWS:

• ISRAEL: Der Spiegel reports that Israel has been quietly arming it's submarines with nuclear-armed cruise missiles

• LEBANON: Army troops have been deployed to Tripoli after 15-people died from clashes between supporters of Assad and those of the uprising
• US: The US Navy is planning to rebalance it's fleet by 2020 so that 60% is in the Pacific