2009.07.02 Thu
Status of the Navy
Refer to "Status of the Navy"
as of Jul. 2, 2009
Navy Personnel
- Active Duty: 332,163
- Officers: 52,604
- Enlisted: 276,208
- Midshipmen: 3,351
- Ready Reserve: 111,876 [As of 09 May]
- Selected Reserves: 66,712
- Individual Ready Reserve: 45,164
- Reserves currently mobilized: 7,027 [As of 23 Jun] * A-1
- Involuntarily mobilized: 1,268
- Voluntarily mobilized: 5,759
- Personnel on deployment: 62,932
- Navy Department Civilian Employees: 189,586
- Deployable Battle Force Ships: 283
- Ships Underway (away from homeport): 129 ships (46% of total)
- On deployment: 112 ships (40% of total)
- Deployable Attack submarines: 54/calculation
- Attack submarines underway (away from homeport): 32 submarines (59%)
- On deployment: 25 submarines (46%)
- Ships Underway
- Carriers:
- USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) - 5th Fleet
- USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) - Atlantic Ocean
- USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) - Pacific Ocean
- USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) - Atlantic Ocean
- USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) - 5th Fleet
- Amphibious Warfare Ships:
- USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) - Pacific Ocean
- USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) - Atlantic Ocea
- Boxer Amphibious Ready Group/13th MEU: * A-2
- USS Boxer (LHD 4) - 7th Fleet
- Bataan Amphibious Ready Group/22nd MEU: * A-3
- USS Bataan (LHD 5) - 5th Fleet
- Aircraft (operational): 3,700+
- Memo
- * A-1, Number of involuntarily (voluntarily) mobilized is based on the report of U.S. DoD.
- U.S. DoD: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/d20090623ngr.pdf

- * A-2, 3, Added item, not the original.
- U.S. Navy: Boxer Expeditionary Strike Group Deploys
- U.S. Navy: Bataan Amphibious Ready Group Deploys in Support of Maritime Strategy
Air-operations - U.S. Navy air-operations as part of Coalition Airpower
CVW 7 that consists of VFA 143 (F/A-18E), VFA 103 (F/A-18F), VFA 83, VFA 131 (F/A-18C[N]), VAQ 140 (EA-6B), VAW 121 (E-2C NP) and HS 5 (SH-60F, HH-60H) is conducting air-supports for Operation Enduring Freedom.
USAF: July 2 airpower summary
- Afghanistan - Operation Enduring Freedom
- Coalition Airpower conducted 59 close-air-support missions
- No description about U.S. Navy air-operations.
- Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR)
- 22 USAF ISR aircraft flew missions as part of operations in Afghanistan.
- Iraq - Operation Iraqi Freedom
- Coalition Airpower conducted 17 close-air-support missions
- No description about U.S. Navy air-operations.
- Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR)
- 24 USAF and U.S. Navy ISR aircraft flew missions as part of operations in Iraq. In addition, 2 USAF aircraft performed tactical reconnaissance.
Topics - Last update Jul. 10, 2009
- Russian Navy also continue an antipiracy operation
- Joint Staff: ロシア海軍艦艇の動向について

- IVO Tsushima islands, Japan (Jul. 2, 2009) - Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) Abukuma class destroyer JS Sendai (DE 232), assigned to 16th Escort Div., detected 3 Russian Ships sailing toward south in the vicinity of Tsushima islands, Japan Jul. 2.
The Russian maritime group was comprised of Udaloy class destroyer RFS Admiral Tributs (DDG 564), Boris Chilikin class oiler Boris Butoma and a Sorum class fleet tag.
The maritime group is heading to off the coast of Somalia for an antipiracy operation.
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