Once the maintenance phase is complete, all support equipment will be transported back to the ship in good-as-new condition, along with its maintenance crew, ready to execute any tasks demanded by
Nimitz on her next deployment.
Nimitz left for a regularly scheduled deployment, and NAVSUP FLC Puget Sound provided support during the weeks and months leading up to the ship's departure.
"Despite repeated radio calls to establish communications and remain clear, the Qom1's controlling station was unresponsive and the [drone] did not use any aircraft navigation lights while it made several passes in close proximity to
Nimitz and its escort ships during active flight operations, coming within 1,000 feet of US aircraft," he said.
Details of the operations were revealed to the GDN on board the USS
Nimitz, which joined Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet in July and is stationed in central Arabian Gulf, during an exclusive tour of the supercarrier.
"Despite repeated radio calls to establish communications and remain clear, the QOM-1's controlling station was unresponsive and the (drone) did not use any aircraft navigation lights while it made several passes in close proximity to
Nimitz and its escort ships during active flight operations, coming within 1,000 feet of US aircraft," he said.
Navy forces will include the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
Nimitz with its air wing, Ticonderoga-class cruiser Princeton, Arleigh Burke-class destroyers Kidd, Howard and Shoup along with integral helicopters, a Los Angeles-class attack submarine and one Long Range Maritime Patrol Aircraft P8A.
In his book, The Admirals, author Walter Borneman tells the story of four great Americans: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester
Nimitz, and William Halsey.
The logical starting point is Admiral Chester
Nimitz's famous "letter of instruction" (actually, of course, transmitted as a message) to Rear Admirals Frank Jack Fletcher and Raymond Spruance on the eve of the battle of Midway.
9781455617968, $16.99, www.amazon.com "Chester
Nimitz and the Sea" is an illustrated juvenile biography of U.S.
Aviation Structural Mechanic 3rd Class Lakesha Clark, assigned to the HSC-6, adjusts screws for an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter aboard the aircraft carrier USS
Nimitz (CVN 68).
