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| 03/06/2005 | MSPA 153/05 |
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EXERCISE TALISMAN SABRE 2005 COMBINED US/AUSTRALIAN PRESS CONFERENCE ABOARD USS BLUE RIDGE What: Combined US/Australian press conference prior to kick-off of Exercise TALISMAN SABRE 2005. Where: Aboard USS Blue Ridge Fleet Base East, Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo, Sydney. When: 12:30 pm Tuesday, 7 June, 2005. Time: 11:30 am. Media to assemble at the ADI Gate (main gate) of Fleet Base East at the intersection of Wylde Street and Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo. Photographic identification will be required.
Who: Vice Admiral Jonathan Greenert, Commander U.S. Seventh Fleet Major General Mark Kelly, Commander 1st Division and Deployable Joint Force Headquarters (Australian Defence Force) Media Opportunities Interviews: Vice Admiral Greenert and Major General Kelly will be available for interviews. Tour USS Blue Ridge: Media will have the opportunity to tour USS Blue Ridge upon conclusion of the conference between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm. Background Exercise TALISMAN SABRE 05: Exercise TALISMAN SABRE 05 is a combined US/Australian exercise involving more than 17,000 personnel from Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine and Special Forces units. The exercise commences on June 12, with a troop build-up now nearing completion in Rockhampton and Townsville and Fleet concentration occurring in the Coral Sea. TALISMAN SABRE’s primary aim is to conduct collective training and exercise inter-operability between Australian and US forces. Based on fictional scenarios, the exercise will include combined Special Forces operations, parachute drops, amphibious landings, artillery and infantry manoeuvres, air combat training and advanced maritime operations. USS BLUE RIDGE: USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) is the Flagship of the United States Seventh Fleet. She operates from Yokosuka, Japan as part of the U.S. Navy's forward deployed Naval Forces, and provides Vice Admiral Greenert, as the Fleet Commander, with the highest possible command and control capabilities for maritime and theatre-level operations during peacetime or conflict. USS Blue Ridge is 620 feet long, weighs 18,500 tons and has a crew of 52 Officers and 790 enlisted ranks.
For further information please contact: Captain Stuart Wood, on (07) 3332 6772 or Mob (0407) 936 552 Captain Gabrielle Parker, on (02) 9359 5939 or Mob (0408) 481 404 US Embassy contact: Ms Susan Crystal, Public Affairs Counsellor , US Embassy, Canberra (02) 6214 5770 or (0409) 124 970 |
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