United States | Operation Leapfrog

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OPERATION LEAPFROG​

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NAVY DEPLOYMENT​

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CARRIER STRIKE GROUP ONE
Rear Admiral Edmund J. Nelson​

SHIP CLASS	VESSEL	COMPLIMENT	HOME PORT
Enterprise-class Aircraft Carrier	USS Enterprise	Total: 5828 / Carrier Compliment: 3000 / Navy Pilots: 250 / Navy Air Support: 1,550	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Tarawa-class Amphibious Assault Ship	USS Tarawa	930	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Ticonderoga-class Guided Missile Cruiser	USS Yorktown	330	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Ticonderoga-class Guided Missile Cruiser	USS Vincennes	330	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Ticonderoga-class Guided Missile Cruiser	USS Valley Forge	330	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Arleigh Burke-class Guided Missile Destroyer	USS John Paul Jones	323	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Arleigh Burke-class Guided Missile Destroyer	USS Jeff Sessions	323	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Arleigh Burke-class Guided Missile Destroyer	USS Richard Shelby	323	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Arleigh Burke-class Guided Missile Destroyer	USS Ted Stevens	323	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Arleigh Burke-class Guided Missile Destroyer	USS Frank Murkowski	323	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Spruance-class Destroyer	USS Paul F. Foster	334	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Spruance-class Destroyer	USS Kinkaid	334	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Oliver Hazard Perry-class Frigate	USS Oliver Hazard Perry	176	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Oliver Hazard Perry-class Frigate	USS McInerney	176	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Oliver Hazard Perry-class Frigate	USS Wadsworth	176	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Oliver Hazard Perry-class Frigate	USS Duncan	176	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Oliver Hazard Perry-class Frigate	USS Clark	176	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Oliver Hazard Perry-class Frigate	USS George Philip	176	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Oliver Hazard Perry-class Frigate	USS Samuel Eliot Morison	176	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Oliver Hazard Perry-class Frigate	USS Sides	176	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Oliver Hazard Perry-class Frigate	USS Estocin	176	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Oliver Hazard Perry-class Frigate	USS Clifton Sprague	176	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Los Angeles-class Submarine	USS Los Angeles	129	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Los Angeles-class Submarine	USS Baton Rouge	129	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Supply-class Support Ship	USS Rainer	235	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia
Supply-class Support Ship	USS Arctic	235	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia

DETAILS
Enterprise-class - Fully Fueled; Aviation reserves fully fueled; Non-perishable food/water for 3 month journey; Standard armaments including: x3 NATO Sea Sparrow; x3 Phalanx CIWS; x2 RAM launchers; Standard countermasures/decoys; x55 Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and all of their necessary armaments and equipment; x10 Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk; x5 Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye.
Tarawa-class - Fully Fueled; Non-perishable food/water for 3 month journey; Standard armaments including x2 Vulcan Phalanx; x19 CH-53E Super Stallion; Standard countermeasures/decoys.
Ticonderoga-class - Fully Fueled; Non-perishable food/water for 3 month journey; x8 RGM-84 Harpoon missiles; x2 5 in 62 caliber Mark 45 Mod 4 lightweight gun; x2 25 mm (0.98 in) Mk 38 gun; x4 .50 in (12.7 mm) cal. machine gun; x2 Phalanx CIWS Block 1B; x2 Mk 32 12.75 in (324 mm) triple torpedo tubes (standard reserve of Mk 46 torpedos); x2 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems containing: x42 BGM-109 Tomahawk, x35 RIM-66 Standard MR, x20 RIM-67 Standard ER, x15 RIM-161 SM-3, x10 RUM-139A VL-ASROC; Standard countermeasures/decoys.
Arleigh Burke-class - Fully Fueled; Non-perishable food/water for 3 month journey; x1 5-inch (127 mm)/62 Mk. 45 Mod 4 (lightweight gun); x2 20 mm Phalanx CIWS; x2 25 mm M242 Bushmaster chain gun; x2 Mk 141 Harpoon Anti-Ship Missile Launche; 96-cell Mk 41 VLS: x15 RUM-139A VL-ASROC, x10 RIM-161 SM-3, x30 RIM-66 Standard MR, x16 RIM-67 Standard ER, x25 BGM-109 Tomahawk; x2 Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes: a mixed-storage of Mark 46, 50, and 54 torpedoes; Standard countermeasures/decoys.
Spruance-class - Fully Fueled; Non-perishable food/water for 3 month journey; x2 5 in 54 caliber Mark 45 dual purpose guns; x2 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Mark 15 guns; x1 8 cell NATO Sea Sparrow Mark 29 missile launcher; x2 quadruple Harpoon missile canisters; x2 Mark 32 triple 12.75 in torpedo tubes (standard reserve of Mk 46 torpedoes); x1 21 cell RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile; x1 61 cell Mk 41 VLS: x31 BGM-109 Tomahawk, x24 RIM-66 Standard MR, x6 RUM-139A VL-ASROC; Standard countermeasures/decoys.
Oliver Hazard Perry-class - Fully Fueled; Non-perishable food/water for 3 month journey; x1 singel-arm Mk 13 Missile Launcher (40-missile loaded magazine; x30 SM-1MRs and x10 Harpoons); standard Mk 38 Mod 2 Naval Gun Systems; x2 Triple Mark 32 Anti-submarine torpedo tubes: mixed-storage of Mark 46 and Mark 50 torpedoes); x1 OTO Melara 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun; x1 20 mm Phalanx CIWS.
Los Angeles-class - Fully Fueled; Non-perishable food/water for 3 month journey; x4 21 in torpedo tubes, x37 Mk 48 torpedo.
Supply-class - Fully Fueled; Fully-stocked with non-perishable food/water for 6 month journey of the entire fleet (on top of the resources the respective ships already have); complete storage of usable fuel for aforementioned vessels; complete storage of aviation fuel for aforementioned aircraft.

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MARINE CORPS DEPLOYMENT​

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2nd Marine Regiment
Colonel Matthew Hunt​

UNIT	HOMEBASE	GROUND FORCES
6th Battalion	Camp Lejeune, North Carolina	1000
7th Battalion	Camp Lejeune, North Carolina	1000

DETAILS
Maines - x1 Combat uniform; x1 Interceptor Multi-Threat Body Armor System; x1 Modular Integrated Communications Helmet; M40 field protective mask; x1 M16A4 + x1 holographic site + x4 additional magazines; Beretta M9 + 4 additional clips; x2 M84 stun grenades; x2 M67 Hand Grenade; x1 AN-M18 Smoke grenade; x1 charged MCRP 3-403B (for officers and NCOs).

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DEPLOYMENT ORDERS​

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CONTEXT​

After considering recommendations from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, President Gore ordered OPERATION LEAPFROG to be put into effect. The operation utilizes units from two of the four branches of the United States Armed Forces and exclusively includes the use of American military personnel from the homeland in North America. The operation consists of one major task force which has been mobilized in Virginia: Carrier Task Force One, which includes ships from the Navy and 1700 Marines aboard the Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship. This operation was ordered after it became clear that communists and nationalists were in control of eastern Russia and Siberia. The Navy considered it to be critical to the national security of the United States to have a strategic naval force capable of projecting power in the Pacific. The fleet was ordered to Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian islands where they would pick up additional assets before possible further strategic redeployment. On this journey, the fleet would travel no faster than the safe maximum speed of the slowest vessel. Outside of when the ships crossed through American waters, they did not cross through any territorial waters of any other country and remained in international waters at all times. The fleet also ensured that they were also safe from running aground, and the submarines would of course adjust their depths to avoid hitting the ocean floor when necessary.

ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC THEATERS​

The 6th and 7th Marine Battalion were flown in to Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads in Virginia. The entire 6th Battalion and 700 Marines from the 7th Battalion were loaded onto the Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship, USS Tarawa. The remaining 300 Marines and their equipment from the 7th Battalion were flown via civilian airlines to Guam. Afterwards, all of the above listed ships were mobilized and deployed with their uniformed and well-rested crews (in the manner in which they are described above) out into the open Atlantic Ocean. The ships were arranged so that the carrier was at the center of the formation; the amphibious assault ship trailed behind it; the Supply-class vessels sailed on either side of the Tarawa-cass; the Ticonderogas sailed ahead of the carrier and on either side of the gap between the carrier and the Tarawa-class and were far out enough so that they were not directly in front of the Supply-class; the Arleigh Burke destroyers were positioned so that two escorted the carrier from the front, one was on either side, and one followed the Tarawa-class; one of the Los Angeles-class submarines was underwater at the top right of the formation while the other was at the bottom left of the formation; finally the frigates were organized so that they encircled the entire fleet; trailing behind the fleet were the two Spruance-class destroyers. The spacing between ships was to U.S. Navy rules and regulations and were spaced so that there was sufficient room for the vessels to make dramatic maneuvers. Other than the submarines which were 750 feet below the water level, no ship was closer than 800 feet to the other ships - the only exception to this would be when the Supply-class ships were resupplying or refueling the other ships. The submarines would of course submerge once they were out to sea and it was safe to do so. Once the fleet was in international waters, they would sail down the East coast of the United States pas the Caribbean, past the equator and into the Southern Atlantic, through the Drake Passage, and up from the South Pacific and past the equator to Pearl Harbor where most of the fleet would dock and replenish as needed. The vessels would be resupplied (or refueled) from the Supply-class ships when necessary. At all times one of the E-2C Hawkeyes were in the air at cruising altitude to securely provide live Early Warning Data to the fleet by using its equipment and instruments on board. The E-2Cs would take shifts of five hours, or would switch out before they had expended 20% of their fuel. They were piloted by navy pilots who were wearing their proper uniforms, gear, and flight suits in order to properly function in and survive the operation.


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PACIFIC THEATER​

Carrier Strike Group One arrived off the coast of O'ahu at 9AM local time. The fleet remained at least four miles from the coast of the island at all times unless otherwise stated below. The fleet would continue to sail off the coast of the island while the two Supply-class vessels, the USS Rainer and USS Arctic, first resupplied the fleet and then sailed into Pearl Harbor to refuel and bring on fresh supplies. This process would take some number of hours. During this time the E-2Cs would continue their flights in the manner previously described. For practice, or perhaps out of boredom, the crews on the E-2Cs would pay special attention to local and far-out civilian flights flying in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands. Once the Rainer and Arctic refueled and were resupplied, they would sail back out to rejoin the rest of the fleet in the same positioning that they had been before. From here, the fleet would set sail for Guam. Once they were fifty miles off the coast of Guam the fleet would be issued new orders for their actions in the Pacific Theater. The fleet would take the most direct route, but would avoid entering into the territorial waters of any nation other than that of the Untied States, Spain, or the United Kingdom. The fleet would maintain the aforementioned safety precautions and procedures that were mentioned previously.


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PACIFIC THEATER​

Because it appeared that the situation in Russia was calming down for now, Carrier Strike Group One was ordered to return to Pearl Harbor. This order was communicated to Admiral Nelson once the fleet had reached the coast of Guam. The fleet promptly "turned around" while keeping its general formation as previously described. The fleet took the same route back to Pearl Harbor as it had taken from Hawaii to Guam. As it did so it kept the same level of readiness and preparedness described in previous posts including maneuvers, the use of radar, and the use of aircraft which were properly refueled and maintained after each flight. The fleet would also take the same precautions when it came to international and territorial waters. Admiral Nelson refrained from giving the advanced order of having any ship or vessel enter Pearl Harbor and would instead decide to do so once the fleet arrived.


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DEPLOYMENT ORDERS​

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PACIFIC THEATER​

Carrier Strike Group One was given orders to return to the East Coast of the United States. Under the leadership of Admiral Nelson, the fleet first replenished at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and then began its journey back around the coast of South America and to the Eastern seaboard. The fleet would maintain the formation that was mentioned previously and would continue aerial operations to monitor the skies and surface waters while the ships would maintain their use of radar. Because the operation was almost over and luckily resulted in no loss of life, the tense attitude that was in place before was slightly relaxed. Admiral Nelson privately discussed with some of the higher-ranking officers aboard the Enterprise that he was under orders by the White House to prepare for a naval blockade of Eastern Russia to prevent other nations in Asia from providing material support to the communist or fascist factions in the civil war. However, with the tensions in Russia simmering down, it looked like this risky maneuver would no longer be necessary. The fleet would ensure that it would remain out of the territorial waters of any nation besides the United States. The fleet continued to monitor the air, the surface waters, and underwater with active and passive radar and sonar. As they made their way home, the fleet would maintain standard safety precautions as before, including (but not limited to) having all of the vessels avoid rocks or waters that were too shallow to travel, and maintaining a more-than-safe distance between each other. The submarines associated with Carrier Strike Group One would remain docked at Pearl Harbor and the crews would disembark.


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PACIFIC THEATER​

Carrier Strike Group One returned to the East Coast of the United States. All sailors, marines, pilots, and other servicemembers returned to their home bases and all ships, submarines, helicopters, and other vehicles were safely returned to their home ports and/or bases. For all intents and purposes, OPERATION LEAPFROG was now over and complete. A detailed record of everything that happened throughout the operation, and why, would be written Rear Admiral Nelson and securely submitted to the Pentagon. Afterwards, the Joint Chiefs of Staff would securely provide an accurate summary of the operation to the President.


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