Exercise Summer Pulse
Combat operations and exercises
Table:
No.

Operation/Exercise

Dates

Carrier Strike Group(s)

Command Authority/Participant(s)

Operating Area

Notes

1st:

Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Vigilant Resolve

[Note 4]

George Washington, John F. Kennedy

U.S. Fifth Fleet

Persian Gulf/Arabian Sea

[36][23]

2nd:

Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan

[Note 5]

George Washington, John F. Kennedy

U.S. Fifth Fleet

Persian Gulf/Arabian Sea

[36][23]

3rd:

Northern Edge

7-14 Jun.

John C. Stennis

U.S. Alaskan Command

Gulf of Alaska

[31]

4th:

Neo Tapon

11-14 Jun.

Enterprise

NATO[Note 6]

Eastern Atlantic

[54][58]

5th:

Combined Joint Task Force Exercise 04-2[Note 7][80]

12-19 Jun.

John F. Kennedy

U.S. Joint Forces Command[Note 8]

Western Atlantic

[24][81]

6th:

Gringo-Gaucho

17 Jun.

Ronald Reagan

Argentine Navy

South Atlantic

[16]

7th:

Joint Maritime Course 04-2 (JMC 04-2)

19–30 Jun.

Enterprise

NATO[Note 9]

Western Approaches

[54][59]

8th:

Group Sail/PASSEX

22–29 June

John C. Stennis

Maritime Forces Pacific

North Pacific

[31]

9th:

Force projection

28 Jun. – 1 Jul.

Kitty Hawk

U.S. Seventh Fleet

Sea of Japan

[82]

10th:

Exercise UNITAS 45-04 Amphibious Phase

4 Jul.

Ronald Reagan

U.S. Southern Command[Note 10]

Eastern Pacific

[19]

11th:

Exercise RIMPAC 2004

6-22 Jul.

John C. Stennis

U.S. Pacific Command

Mid-Pacific

[31][32][33]

12th:

Silent Force Exercise

9 Jul.

Ronald Reagan

Peruvian Navy

South Pacific

[18]

13th:

Medshark/Majestic Eagle

11-16 Jul.

Enterprise, Harry S. Truman

STRIKFORNATO[Note 11]

Eastern Atlantic

[49][54][66]

14th:

Carrier qualifications

26-29 Jul.

Kitty Hawk

U.S. Seventh Fleet

Western Pacific

[75]

15th:

JASEX

8-14 Aug.

Kitty Hawk, John C. Stennis

U.S. Pacific Command

Western Pacific

[49][72]

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