{"id":46037,"date":"2024-01-10T22:06:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T22:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/01\/10\/navy-tests-how-to-relieve-carrier-strike-group-warships-on-station\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:56:25","slug":"navy-tests-how-to-relieve-carrier-strike-group-warships-on-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2024\/01\/10\/navy-tests-how-to-relieve-carrier-strike-group-warships-on-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy tests how to relieve carrier strike group warships on station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Navy is exploring a new surface fleet model that would augment a carrier strike group with additional destroyers and cruisers that the strike group did not initially deploy with, a move leaders hope will bolster readiness and improve flexibility of forces worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such a model brings a \u201cplug-and-play\u201d capability to naval forces like those currently in the Middle East \u2013 allowing for a sustained gray hull presence at a given location, according to U.S. Fleet Forces Command head Adm. Daryl Caudle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The move would essentially allow warships to relieve other warships that have been on station for long periods of time, Caudle told reporters Tuesday at the Surface Navy Association\u2019s annual conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a model that could prove useful as the Navy faces a variety of contingencies worldwide that could test its surface combatants, from the risk of wider war erupting out of the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Middle East, to continued deterrence needs in the Mediterranean Sea and the ever-present concern about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn large conflict, I\u2019m going to deploy ready-up strike groups,\u201d he said. \u201cBut eventually, as everybody knows, when you\u2019re on station for a long time on a ship, you got to take a knee. And so as you roll out to take a knee and somebody rolls in, I have to have high confidence that they come in at the right level of training, certification, mastery and the ability to plug and play into that strike group.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t