FleetEx '83-1

FleetEx 83 was a mission that took place between March 29 and April 17 of 1983 consisted of three carrier battle groups. The US carriers Enterprise, Midway, and Coral Sea and their respective escort ships participated in the exercise. The mission according to Admiral Robert Long, Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Forces in the Pacific, comprised “the largest fleet exercise conducted by the Pacific Fleet since World War II.”[1] The group consisted of approximately forty ships, 23,000 crew members, and 300 aircraft.[2] The exercise lasted approximately two weeks and was conducted in the Northern Pacific, within flight range of the Soviet Union coast. The purpose of the mission was to intentionally provoke the Soviet Union into responding so that the US forces could study their response, tactics, and capabilities as well as demonstrate the effective operations of a three-carrier battle force in joint and combined operations across multiple service branches in both the United States and Canada, in a high-threat environment.[1] The exercises were extremely successful and effective in integrating the combined forces of the United States Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, and Canadian Naval forces into an effective battle force. Despite poor weather, the fleet excelled throughout the exercise.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Command History Division Office of the Joint Secretary, Commander in Chief U.S. Pacific Command History (Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii, 1984), 396.
  2. ↑ R. W. Johnson, Shoot-down: Flight 007 and the American Connection (New York: Viking, 1986), 55.
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