Keywords: US Navy 040309-N-4374S-013 Sailors monitor surface contacts while manning a.50 caliber machine gun aboard the guided missile frigate USS Taylor (FFG 50), during a simulated small boat attack exercise (SWARMEX).jpg en At sea aboard USS Taylor FFG 50 Mar 9 2004 - Sailors monitor surface contacts while manning a 50 caliber machine gun aboard the guided missile frigate USS Taylor FFG 50 during a simulated small boat attack exercise SWARMEX Taylor is part of the USS John F Kennedy Strike Group and is currently taking part in a Composite Training Unit Exercise COMTUEX COMPTUEX is an intermediate level exercise designed to forge the strike group into a cohesive fighting team and is a critical step in pre-deployment training During COMPTUEX more than a dozen ships and Carrier Air Wing Seventeen CVW-17 embarked on Kennedy conducted war game exercises using training ranges along the East Coast of the U S and the Gulf of Mexico The exercise took advantage of existing ranges under the Navy s comprehensive Training Resource Strategy TRS These ranges offer training facilities and realistic simulations better preparing U S Navy ships and Sailors to participate in the Global War on Terrorism U S Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Michael Sandberg RELEASED 2004-03-09 040309-N-4374S-013 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 12771 U S Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Michael Sandberg PD-USGov-Military-Navy Aboard USS Taylor FFG-50 |