Once the Air Wing’s planes arrived aboard
Nimitz, the Fire Control team on
Princeton saw an opportunity to use those assets and eyeballs to help solve the AAV mystery.
At the same time FASTEAGLE flight was wrapping up its scheduled training, the CO of Marine Hornet squadron VMFA-232, Lieutenant Colonel “Cheeks” Kurth, was completing a post-maintenance check flight not too far away. He was the first fast-mover contacted by Princeton. The communication was strange and intriguing. He was asked to investigate an unidentified airborne contact. This wasn’t a terribly unusual request while a Strike Group was in transit or deployed far from home waters, but it was more than a little strange practically in sight of the San Diego Homeport. To add to the unusual communications, he was queried as to what ordinance he had on board.
Ex-US Special Forces Soldier Reveals How Naval Boarding Operation Typically Takes Place
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The goal of a naval boarding action is to invade and overrun the personnel on board an enemy vessel in order to capture or destroy the ship.
With the importance of naval boarding increasing nowadays, the US Navy SEAL special operation forces are not the only ones who are capable of implementing such a mission, Business Insider reports.
Boarding is an offensive tactic used in naval warfare to engage an enemy marine vessel by inserting combatants aboard the ship.
Sailors with the US Naval Special Warfare Unit 2 climb a ladder to reach the second floor of a ship in Lisbon, Portugal on October 24, 2015 during NATO exercise Trident Juncture 15