Wednesday, April 28, 2021

This Is How The US Navy SEALs Will Keep Aircraft Carriers In A High-End Fight

A Naval Special Warfare member conducts visit, board, search, and seizure operations aboard USS Carter Hall during an exercise in Mayport, Florida, January 24, 2020. US Navy/MCS2 Russell Rhodes Jr.  

Business Insider: A historic exercise shows how Navy SEALs will keep aircraft carriers in a high-end fight 

* The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group came together for a composite unit training exercise in February. 

* Such exercises are meant to show that the ship of a strike group can work smoothly as a force. 

* This time, however, Naval Special Warfare operators joined and acted as the eyes and ears of the strike group, demonstrating the role they might play in a high-end fight. 

In February, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group got to work with Naval Special Warfare in a "historic" and pioneering exercise. 

During the composite unit training exercise, about 100 SEALs and Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen (SWCC) from SEAL Team 10 and Special Boat Team 20 trained alongside conventional Navy forces. 

The training was a glimpse of how the Navy could operate in a potential conflict with China in the Indo-Pacific region.  

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WNU Editor: In any high-end fight the US Navy will need all the help that it can get.

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