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Carrier Strike Group Twelve (CSG-12 or CARSTRKGRU 12) is one of four U.S. Navy carrier strike groups currently assigned to the United States Fleet Forces Command. Carrier strike groups gain and maintain sea control as well as project naval airpower ashore. The aircraft carrier is the strike group's current flagship. Other units currently assigned to Carrier Strike Group Twelve included Carrier Air Wing One embarked on board the ''Theodore Roosevelt''; the s and ; and Destroyer Squadron 2.〔Destroyer Squadron 2 consists of the s , , , , , and .〕〔 Between 2006 and 2011, with ''Enterprise'' as its flagship, the group made four deployments to the U.S. Fifth Fleet in the Middle East. Strike group aircraft flew over 13,000 air combat missions in support of coalition ground forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, including 2006's Operation Medusa and Operation Mountain Fury in Iraq. The group's surface warships were also involved in several high-profile anti-piracy operations. The group participated in the multi-lateral exercises Anatolian Sun 2006, Reliant Mermaid 2007, BALTOPS 2008, and Malabar 2015; the bilateral exercise Inspired Union 2006; and the joint exercise Exercise Bold Alligator 2012. The 2015 deployment was led by its new flagship, ''Theodore Roosevelt'', which is shifting its home-port to Naval Base San Diego, California. Carrier Strike Group Twelve was the first U.S. Navy carrier strike group to deploy with a Naval Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air (NIFC-CA) capability that integrates all units via data link to gain a more comprehensive overview of its operational battlespace. To augment this NIFC-CA capability, the strike group embarked the new E-2D airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft, making its first overseas deployment. ==Historical background== On 30 June 1973, Commander Cruiser Destroyer Flotilla Eight was re-designated as Commander Cruiser-Destroyer Group Eight (CCDG-8). Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Group 8 subsequently served as the Immediate Superior-in-Command (ISIC) for the , , and carrier battle groups. The group took part in Operation Southern Watch and Operation Deny Flight. In 1986, while commanding Cruiser-Destroyer Group Eight, Rear Admiral David E. Jeremiah commanded the carrier battle group and Task Group 60.2 of the U.S. Sixth Fleet during a series of operations code-named Attain Document. They were intended to assert freedom of navigation in the Gulf of Sidra as well as to challenge the territorial claims of Libya to that body of water. Subsequently, the ''Saratoga'' carrier battle group and the rest of Task Force 60 carried out Operation El Dorado Canyon, a series of punitive air-strikes against Libya in retaliations to the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing. During both operations, Admiral Jeremiah commanded Task Force 60, the three-carrier task force of the Sixth Fleet, code-named Battle Force Zulu. In the middle of 1992, the U.S. Navy instituted a concept which mandated greater task group integration of naval air and surface warfare assets into a more permanent carrier battle group structure. Instead of routinely changing the cruisers, destroyers, and frigates assigned to each carrier battle group, there was an attempt made to affiliate certain escorts more permanently with the carriers they escorted. Each of the Navy's 12 existing carrier battle groups was planned to consist of an aircraft carrier; an embarked carrier air wing; cruiser, destroyer, and frigate units; and two nuclear-powered attack submarines. For details regarding this re-alignments as it pertained to Cruiser-Destroyer Group Eight, see the chart below. During the early period of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Commander Carrier Destroyer Group Eight was embarked aboard ''Theodore Roosevelt'' as a part of Task Force 60, striking Iraqi targets from the Mediterranean Sea. On 1 September 2004, Rear Admiral James W. Stevenson, Jr., Commander Cruiser Destroyer Group Eight, took command of the ''Enterprise'' group. Admiral Stevenson had been in command of Cruiser-Destroyer Group Eight since May 2004. Formerly, the ''Enterprise'' Carrier Strike Group had been under the command of Commander Cruiser Destroyer Group Twelve (CCDG-12) based in Naval Station Mayport, Florida. On 1 October 2004, Cruiser-Destroyer Group Eight (CruDesGru 8) was re-designated as Carrier Strike Group Twelve.〔 ;Cruiser-Destroyer Group Eight, late 1992〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carrier Strike Group Twelve」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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