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spearhead	Aug 27 2012, 08:22 PM Post #1
DoctorNO, Your Neutral Observer. Posts: 6,903 Group: Regulars Member #655 Joined: February 14, 2006	RIMPAC, the Rim of the Pacific Exercise, is the world's largest international maritime warfare exercise. RIMPAC is held biennially during June and July of even-numbered years in Honolulu, Hawaii. It is hosted and administered by the United States Navy's Pacific Command, headquartered at Camp H. M. Smith near Salt Lake, in conjunction with the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, and Hawaii National Guard forces under the leadership of the Governor of Hawaii. The U.S. invites allied military forces from the Pacific Rim nations to participate. With RIMPAC the United States Pacific Command seeks to enhance interoperability between Pacific Rim armed forces, as a means of promoting stability in the region to the benefit of all participating nations. Pacific Rim nations face several "hot spots" of potential armed conflict, such as the threat of the People's Republic of China invading Taiwan in the event of its declaration of independence and North Korean aggression towards South Korea, the United States, and Japan. The first RIMPAC, held in 1971, involved forces from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States (US). Australia, Canada, and the US have participated in every RIMPAC. Other regular participants are Chile, Colombia, France, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Peru, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and the UK. The Royal New Zealand Navy was frequently involved until the 1985 ANZUS nuclear ships dispute. Several observer nations are usually invited, including China, Ecuador, India, Mexico, the Philippines, and Russia, who became an active participant for the first time in 2012.[1] While not contributing any ships, observer nations are involved in RIMPAC at the strategic level and use the opportunity to prepare for possible full participation in the future. The United States contingent alone may include an aircraft carrier strike group, submarines, up to a hundred aircraft and 20,000 Sailors, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and their respective officers. The size of the exercises varies from year to year. RIMPAC 2004 included 40 ships, seven submarines, 100 aircraft, and nearly 18,000 military personnel from seven navies, including Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Chile, and the United Kingdom. It focused on multinational training while building trust and cooperation among the participating naval partners. Rear Admiral Patrick M. Walsh, Commander Carrier Group Seven, served as Multinational Task Force Commander aboard the USS John C. Stennis. RIMPAC 2012 RIMPAC 2012 is the 23rd exercise in the series and started on 29 June 2012. 42 ships, including the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) and other elements of Carrier Strike Group 11, six submarines, 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel from 22 different nations will take part in Hawaii. The exercise would involve surface combatants from the U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia and Chile. The US Navy will demonstrate its green fleet of biofuel-driven vessels for which it purchased 450,000 gallons of biofuel, the largest single purchase of biofuel in history at a cost of $12m. On July 17th, USNS Henry J. Kaiser (T-AO-187) delivered 900,000 gallons of biofuel and traditional petroleum-based fuel to the Nimitz's Carrier Strike Group 11. The exercises included units or personnel from Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, Tonga, the United Kingdom and the United States. Russia will participate actively for the first time, as will the Philippines, reportedly due to the escalating tensions with the People's Republic of China over ownership of the Scarborough Shoal. RIMPAC 2012 marked the debut of the U.S. Navy's new P-8A Poseidon land-based anti-submarine patrol aircraft, with two P-8As participating in 24 RIMPAC exercise scenarios as part of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron One (VX-1) based at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay. SOURCES: RIMPAC WIKI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIMPAC RIMPAC FACEBOOK http://www.facebook.com/RimofthePacific Edited by spearhead, Aug 27 2012, 08:24 PM.
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spearhead	Aug 27 2012, 08:30 PM Post #2
DoctorNO, Your Neutral Observer. Posts: 6,903 Group: Regulars Member #655 Joined: February 14, 2006	RIMPAC FACEBOOK http://www.facebook.com/RimofthePacific
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spearhead	Sep 21 2012, 09:11 AM Post #3
DoctorNO, Your Neutral Observer. Posts: 6,903 Group: Regulars Member #655 Joined: February 14, 2006	U.S. to invite China to join world's largest naval exercises The Associated Press Published Wednesday, Sep. 19, 2012 8:14PM EDT HONOLULU -- The U.S. intends to ask China to a send a ship to join the world's largest maritime exercises for the first time in Hawaiian waters in two years. The Navy will invite the Asian nation to send a ship to the 2014 Rim of the Pacific exercises, U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters in Beijing on Wednesday. China sent military observers to watch the drills in 1998 but has never sent a vessel. Panetta said he discussed ways to extend co-operation between the two militaries during a meeting with China's national defence minister, Gen. Liang Guanglie. The defence secretary noted that China and the U.S. participated this week in an exercise to counter pirates in the Gulf of Aden between Somalia and Yemen. "To build on this positive momentum, I informed General Liang today that the United States Navy will invite China to send a ship to participate in RIMPAC 2014 exercise," Panetta said in a transcript of the news conference provided by the Pentagon. The U.S. Pacific Fleet hosts the drills every two years. Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/u-s-to-invite-china-to-join-world-s-largest-naval-exercises-1.963610#ixzz273nGFpor
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