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Carrier Strike Group Seven, abbreviated CSG-7 or CARSTRKGRU 7, was one of six U.S. Navy carrier strike groups assigned to the U.S. Pacific Fleet. U.S. Navy carrier strike groups are employed in a variety of roles, all of which involve gaining and maintaining sea control.[6]
Carrier Strike Group Seven | |
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Active | 1 October 2004 to 30 December 2011.[1][2] |
Country | United States of America |
Branch | United States Navy |
Type | Carrier Strike Group (CSG) |
Role | Naval air/surface warfare |
Part of | U.S. Third Fleet |
Garrison/HQ | Naval Air Station North Island, California |
Engagements | Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) Operation Anaconda Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan (OEF-A) |
Website | Official Website |
Commanders | |
Commander | Rear Admiral Robert P. Girrier[3] |
Chief of Staff | Captain Steven Baxter[4] |
Command Master Chief | YNCS(SW/AW) Anthony Tate[5] |
Aircraft flown | |
Electronic warfare | EA-6B Prowler E-2C Hawkeye |
Fighter | F/A-18E/F Super Hornet F/A-18C Hornet |
Helicopter | MH-60R/MH-60S Seahawk |
Transport | C-2A Greyhound |
Carrier Strike Group Seven was based at Naval Air Station North Island, California, and it typically deployed to the U.S. Seventh Fleet operating in the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) and the U.S. Fifth Fleet in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. The Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) served as the final flagship for Carrier Strike Group Seven.
Carrier Strike Group Seven (CARSTRKGRU 7) made four deployments to the U.S. Fifth Fleet, and its embarked carrier air wing flew 6500 air sorties in support of ground forces in Iraq and Afghanistan while CARSTRKGRU-7 surface warships supported theater security and maritime interdiction operation within that fleet's area of responsibility. CARSTRKGRU-7 also made a Western Pacific surge deployment to support of U.S. commitments in that region while the flagship of the forward-based Carrier Strike Group Five flagship, the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), began its scheduled maintenance period in Yokosuka, Japan.
Units of Carrier Strike Group Seven, individually and together, participated in such joint exercises as Valiant Shield 2006; such bi-lateral exercises as RSOI/Foal Eagle 2007, Talisman Saber 2007, Malabar 2008, and Malabar 2011; and such multi-lateral exercises as SEACAT 2008 and RIMPAC 2010. Finally, Carrier Strike Group Seven provided humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR) support in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, the Typhoon Fengshen of 2008, and the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
On 30 December 2011, Carrier Strike Group Seven will be formally disestablished, ending the existence of this U.S. Navy aircraft carrier formation whose operational history spanned World War Two, the Cold War, and the Global War on Terror.[2]