Saturday, December 8, 2012

December 8th Weekly Update


SHIP LOGS & EXERCISES:

Ship & Group Locations Checked & Updated (December 2 to December 8)



ACTIVE EXERCISES:
  • None Noted



SHIP LOGS:

HMS Argyll (FFG)
  • (Dec 3) OST / FOST complete, ready to deploy in 2013 (Royal Navy )

HMS Monmouth (FFG)
  • (Dec 6) relives HMS Diamond in Gulf of Aden (Royal Navy )

HMS Westminster (FFG)
  • (Dec 5) Anti-Submarine training in Atlantic (Royal Navy )

RFA Wave Ruler (Supply)
  • (Dec 5) Returning home from Indian Ocean patrol (Royal Navy )

RFS Moskva TF
  • (Dec 6) Anti-Piracy deployment in Gulf of Aden CANCELLED, CG Moskva and both LSTs are returning to Sevestopol, DDG Smetlivy is reassigned to patrol near Crete (Rusnavy.com )

RFS Shaposhnikov TF
  • (Dec 4) Shaposhnikov TF completes INDRA-2012 naval exercise off Mumbai (Rusnavy.com )

USS Eisenhower CSG
  • (Dec 4) CSG in Mediterranean near Syria?

USS GHW Bush (CVN-77)
  • (Dec 1) PIA done, heads out to sea, preparing for 2013 deployment (US Navy )







GROUND UNITS LOGS & EXERCISES:

US Ground units logs updated per DOD reports, up to (November 25 to December 1) (DOD News Releases )

France, UK, Russia, China Army logs updated per various news releases and open sources



ACTIVE EXERCISES:
  • None Noted



UNIT LOGS:
  • No Noted Changes



NEWS that makes me go Hmmmm......

MALI
  • (Dec 4) Mali's government and rebel leadership meet inn Burkina Faso to negotiate an end to the crisis (Yahoo )
  • (Dec 7) UN says no military offensive is expected until next September or October (Yahoo )

SOMALIA
  • (Dec 3) Islamists ambush government convoy near the port of Merca
  • (Dec 4) Islamists attack army base in Jowhar, one of the last urban Islamist strongholds
  • (Dec 5) Islamists attack Puntland army base in Bossaso (BBC )

SYRIA
  • (Dec 4) Intel sources detect Syrian engineers weaponizing Sarin gas for deployment; US, Turkish, Israeli and Jordanian forces on standby (Debka); NATO approves deployment of Patriot missiles to Turkey, IKE-CSG and IJ-ARG neaby (Debka)
  • (Dec 5) Numerous media reports confirm Syria has weaponized a batch of Sarin gas for deployment (Fox News )





MAPPING UPDATES

  • None, Mapping file damaged, being recreated :(

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