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FleetEx 83 was a naval exercise that took place between March 29 and April 17 of 1983 in the northern Pacific Ocean near the
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. Three carrier battle groups participated in the exercise, consisting of the carriers , , and and their respective escort ships. According to Admiral Robert L. J. Long, Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Forces in the Pacific, FleetEx 83 comprised “the largest fleet exercise conducted by the Pacific Fleet since
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.”Command History Division Office of the Joint Secretary, Commander in Chief U.S. Pacific Command History (Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii, 1984), 396. The combined task force consisted of approximately forty ships, 23,000 crew members, and 300 aircraft.R. W. Johnson, Shoot-down: Flight 007 and the American Connection (New York: Viking, 1986), 55. The exercise lasted approximately two weeks and was conducted in the Northern Pacific, within flight range of the
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coast. The purpose of the mission was to intentionally provoke the Soviet Union into responding so that the US forces could study their response, tactics, and capabilities as well as demonstrate the effective operations of a three-carrier battle force in joint and combined operations across multiple service branches in both the
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, in a high-threat environment. The exercises were extremely successful and effective in integrating the combined forces of the
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, Canadian Maritime Command and Australian naval forces into an effective battleworthy whole. Despite poor weather, the fleet excelled throughout the exercise.


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