During that tour, my job was to train carrier battle groups as they prepared for deployment.
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Chris Vernon in Kuwait City said three battle groups had set out for the center of Basra.
Two US carrier battle groups, the USS Enterprise and the USS Carl Vinson, are in the area.
Two MRCs will require deployment of all available carrier battle groups plus amphibious ready groups and maritime task forces.
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It requires not 10 aircraft carrier battle groups but, to do it right and when and where needed, 20.
"It does raise the question of why we need 10 carrier battle groups and close to 100 attack submarines, " he said.
Some of the battle groups have met some resistance from irregulars.
Ironically, there are rumors of flagging Navy support in recent budget deliberations for a program that could effectively provide U.S. carrier battle groups with several means for mitigating these missile threats: the Navy Unmanned Combat Air System (N-UCAS).
The U.S. Navy provided five carrier battle groups with one more in transit to the theater, two amphibious ready groups, and two amphibious task forces for a total of more than 70 surface combatants and submarines plus 37 Military Sealift Command ships.
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President Clinton's hapless efforts to prevent Puerto Rican displeasure at the U.S. military's use of the vital Vieques live-fire training range from harming the campaigns being waged by his wife and Vice President Gore is giving rise to the worst of both worlds: Navy and Marine battle groups unprepared for combat operations and increasingly expensive bribes for unappeasable separatists.
It was to do battle against groups such as New Europe and Business for Sterling, which argue that Britain should stay out.
Delegates from Ecuador's traditional parties might battle to maintain their groups' privileges and authority.
Pakistan's military has been engaged in a long-running battle against those militant groups.
For a while, the purchasing groups were winning this battle by using their muscle to demand lower premiums.
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The bill was rolled out today on Capitol Hill and as NPR's David Welna reports, it has already set off a battle between organized labor and business groups.
What ultimately pushed the Internet cause over the top in the piracy battle was supporting fire from nonprofit groups like the foundation behind Wikipedia, which says it didn't coordinate with Google or other companies.
They cluster into tight-knit groups of cronies, who battle other crony bands for dwindling spoils.
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Today the NRDC and other groups are in a legal battle with the FDA over the continued use of antibiotics in agriculture.
While Europe's show calendars are controlled by industry oversight groups, a polite power battle is breaking out among New York's show organizers.
That leaves conflicts that rage in weak and failing states (as in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan), or in ungoverned space (in parts of Somalia), where rival non-state actors, terrorist groups, militants and warlords do battle.
The battle has cost the Republicans support among two large groups of voters they badly need: Latinos and working women.
The public battle started when a number of big British supermarket groups stated flatly that any systematic fault was as unacceptable in wine as it was in any other product.
That could be a Pyrrhic victory for the public interest groups, which now move to the next battle: ensuring that the study reflects their views.
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That battle is part of a wider power struggle between rival Sunni groups ahead of the upcoming provincial elections.
The conservation groups maintain that the present legal struggle symbolizes a larger battle over the government's commitment to protect and restore large carnivores.
While many seniors and their families may not be aware of it, consumer groups, hospitals, and nursing homes are fighting a major battle with Medicare over how the federal program pays for patients who are cared for in a hospital, but not admitted to the hospital.
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Science groups in Kansas are already looking past the vote to the next battle.
When it was announced that drone operators would now be eligible for medals, lawmakers and veterans groups raised concerns that the medal would eclipse those typically given for bravery in battle.
Despite the delay, both sides still intend to start the public relations battle in earnest Tuesday morning with rallies, war rooms and a tremendous lobbying effort from interest groups on both sides of the issue.
At first this was a straightforward battle pitting the Sudanese army, together with the Arab militias, the infamous janjaweed, against two main rebel groups, the Justice and Equality Movement and the Sudan Liberation Army.
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