Ship
& Group Locations Checked & Updated (September 9 to 15)
- VALIENT SHIELD 2012: (Sept 11) large joint force exercise near Guam, see article for ORBAT (US Navy )
- IMCMEX 2012: (Sept 16-22) Large Mine-Countermeasures exercise in Arabian Gulf (Royal Navy )
- UNITAS Atlantic 53-2012: (Sept 17) Multinational naval exercise in Caribbean
FS
La Fayette (FFG)
- (Sept 5-9) escorts supply ship from Mozambique to Mogadishu, Somalia for African Union Troops (Defense Ministry )
HMS
Argyll (FFG)
- (Sept 10) visited Hamburg , Germany for 4-days (Royal Navy )
HMS
Diamond (DDG)
- (Sept 11) patrolling in Arabian Gulf
HMS
Illustrious (CV)
- (Sept 10) Defense Minister Dunne announces that Illustrious will be preserved, and not sold for scrap, when it's decommissioned in 2014 (Royal Navy )
HMS
Ocean (LHA)
- (Sept 12) departs London, will resume routine tasking, planning to visit Holland (Royal Navy )
INS
Vikramaditya (CV)
- (Sept 14) Flight trials delayed by onset of artic weather, ship will be commisioned with indian crew, but resumption of flight training will be delayed until March'13 (The Hindu )
PLAAN
Liaoning (CV)
- (Sept 14) carrier formerly known as “Varyag” was assigned hull number 16 and given name LIAONING; chinese plan to use as training carrier with 24-fighters and 26-helo as full complement (Strategy page )
PLAAN
Zheng He (TRN)
- (Spet 12) arrives at Brunei for 3-days, then will return to China (Brudirect )
USNS
Mercy (T-AH-19)
- (Sept 14) return to San Diego, PP12 deployment ends ...delete from log (US Navy )
USS
B.H. Richard ARG (LHD-6)
- (Sept 10) ARG in Philippine Sea, begin CERTEX with 31st MEU (US Navy )
USS
Eisenhower CSG (CVN-69)
- (Sept 7) USS Farragut (DDG-99) arrives at La Rochelle, France after visiting Williamshaven, Germany (US Navy )
USS
G. Washington CSG (CVN-73)
- (Sept 8) CSG near Guam
- (Sept 11) participating in VALIENT SHIELD 2012
USS
La Jolla (SSN-701)
- (Sept 10) visit Yokosuka, Japan; currently on WESTPAC deployment ...added to log (US Navy )
USS
Milius (DDG-69)
- (Sept 11) returns to San Diego from WESTPAC / CENTCOM deployment (US Navy )
USS
Stennis CSG (CVN-74)
- (Sept 11) enter 7th Fleet AOR (Kitsap Sun )
USS
Underwood (FFG-36)
- (Sept 7) arrives at Trinidad and Tobago to celebrate 50th anniversary of independence (US Navy )
- (Sept 14) arrives at Key West, US for UNITAS 2012 (US Navy )
GROUND
UNITS LOGS & EXERCISES:
US
Ground units logs updated per DOD reports, up to (September 9 to 15)
(DOD News Releases )
France,
UK, Russia, China Army logs updated per various news releases and
open sources
- KAVKAZ-2012: (September 17-23), upcoming Russian Army Ex in Caucasus
- Chistoye Nebo 2012: (October 5-16) Air Defense Exercise in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan; involves interception of cruise missiles (RIA Novosti )
FRANCE
- AFGHANISTAN: (Sept 6) French transfer control of their zone of Kandahar Airfield to Belgium, Mirage 2000D's were removed in July (Defense Ministry )
- LEBANON: (Sept 4) French Army peacekeepers participate in joint fire exercise with Lebanese Army “Steel Storm” (Defense Ministry )
RUSSIA
- CAUCUSUS (Dagestan): (Sept 13) Russian Army squad mortars a school, mistaken for rebel base (RIA Novosti
- CAUCUSUS (Dagestan): (Sept 15) Russian sniper killed in clash with rebel gang near Tsuntinsky, in southern Dagestan, leader of the gang was killed (RIA Novosti )
- KYRGYZSTAN: The Kyrgyz parliament started hearings on the revision of the basing agreement with Russia (Sept 11) (RIA Novosti )
UK
- 12 Mechanised Brigade – visited by Defense Secretary Hammond (Sept 13) (MOD )
- 45 Commando preparing for upcoming deployment to Mediterranean, possibly part of exercise Cougar 2012 (Royal Navy )
- Grenadier Guards, 1st Battalion – KIA @ Nahr-e Saraj District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan (IED)(Sept 15) (MOD )
- Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Battalion – KIA @ Nahr-e Saraj District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan (Ambush at checkpoint) (Sept 15) (MOD )
USA
- 82nd Airborne Division, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade – KIA @ Logar Province, Afghanistan (Aircraft Crash) (Sept 5)
- 162nd Brigade – Deployed August'11 to August'12, no activity logged, remove from log
- 172nd Brigade – Deployed July'11 to July'12, no activity logged since April'12, removed from log
- 173rd Airborne Brigade – KIA @ Muqer, Afghanistan (Combat) (Sept 13)
NEWS
that makes me go Hmmmm......
ALGERIA
- (Sept 12) US Embassy warns of potential for protests
EGYPT
- (Sept 11) Riots break out in Cairo, protesting a movie production that they say insults Islam, and storming the US embassy
KOSOVO
- (Sept 10) 25-nation International Steering Group formally ends the supervision of the region, but KFOR will remain for now (RIA Novosti )
LIBYA
- (Sept 12) US Ambassador to Libya was ambushed and killed in Benghazi while transiting to a safe area, along with three others, during riots. It's thought by some sources that the attack was planned, and used the riots as cover. In response, 50-US Marines from a fast response counter-terror unit has been deployed to the Consulate.
- (Sept 13) US sends two DDG off the Libyan coast, which may include the USS McFaul and Laboon (Debka ) (RIA Novosti )
MALI
- (Sept 10) Mali Islamic group MUJWA says the killing of 16 Islamic preachers by an army patrol at the Diabaly checkpoint was a declaration of war. An officer at the Segou Army Base said they had been tracking the group, and ambushed them to prevent a surprise incursion (Yahoo News - Reuters)
SOMALIA
- (Sept 12) Somalia's newly elected president survives an assassination bombing attempt in Mogadishu (Yahoo News)
SYRIA
- (Sept 12) Rebel car bomb kills 18 army soldiers in Idlib, and heavy fighting continues at Aleppo airport (Yahoo News)
- (Sept 13) Hariri says Hezbollah sending fighters into Syria to assist Syrian Army against FSA rebels (The Daily Star )
TUNISIA
- (Sept 13) Anti-US riots break out
- (Sept 14) Riots continue, fires near US Embassy
YEMEN
- (Sept 13) Rioters attack US Embassy
- (Sept 14) Riots continue, US Marines reinforce embassy
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