DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable: Exercise Bold Alligator 2011

DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable with Rear Admiral Kevin Scott, Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group Two (ESG 2). Scott will be the Navy's embarked Commander Amphibious Task Force for Exercise Bold Alligator 2011, which is a U.S. naval amphibious exercise that will focus on conducting major amphibious operations simultaneously with a non-combatant evacuation. This is the most significant and robust exercise within the USN-USMC amphibious community in almost 10 years. Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group Two (ESG 2), and Commander, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade (2nd MEB) in coordination with ships assigned to the U.S. Second Fleet will conduct a joint large-scale fleet synthetic training amphibious exercise, which will concentrate on the fundamental roles as "fighters from the sea." Its focus is based on the joint goal of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) and the Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) to revitalize and return to the fundamental amphibious roles as "fighters from the sea". The exercise will focus improve amphibious force readiness and proficiency for executing the six core capabilities of the Maritime Strategy - forward presence, deterrence, sea control, power projection, maritime security and humanitarian assistance/disaster response.