NORFOLK, Virginia. - The Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC)
provided technical and engineering support to the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier
Strike Group during a Command and Control Exercise (C2X) off the coast of
Florida during the first week of February 2015.
Carrier strike groups preparing for deployment take part in a month
long C2X in order to run simulated scenarios and battle sequences to ensure all
systems on board each ship in the group are functioning and flexed properly.
"What the Strike Groups do is take all of their ship and submarine
assets, and they run through every warfare problem that we can possibly think of
to make sure each ship and crew member is trained and ready to go
pre-deployment," said Chief Warrant Officer Dwight Baker of MARMC's Engineering
Department.
MARMC's Combat Systems (Electronics) Division provided nine
technicians on scene and dedicated two distance support technicians to
troubleshoot casualty reports on satellite communications systems, electronic
warfare systems, close-in weapons systems, and global command and control
systems.
"A lot of our attention is on intel systems that
acquire data which is used to ascertain the intelligence picture of the battle
problem," said Baker. "Within the first 24 hours of having our tech reps on
board, we started to make an impact in getting systems with issues operating
correctly."
Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic Rear Admiral J. R. Haley
recognized the immediate effect by MARMC while corresponding with Baker early in
the exercise. "[The ship's] capabilities have already improved and it has made a
significant difference in training objectives . the experts sent are already
making headway," said Haley.
"This is a little out of the box from what MARMC usually does. We
are a maintenance command and not an operational organization, but we have met
the challenges facing the fleet and will continue to do so whenever called
upon," said Baker.
MARMC will continue to support the strike group until the exercise
completes in mid-February.
For more information about MARMC please visit:
http://www.navy.mil/local/nssa/.