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COVID-19

Navy Confirms LSE Postponed Due To COVID-19; No Decision On RIMPAC

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

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Navy Confirms LSE Postponed Due To COVID-19; No Decision On RIMPAC

Sailors load a Harpoon anti-ship cruise missile on to the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Olympia (SSN-717) as part of the biannual RIMPAC maritime exercise in July 2018. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

Navy leaders Tuesday confirmed Large Scale Exercise (LSE) 2020 has been postponed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and they are still considering if other events like RIMPAC will be moved. “That exercise [LSE] will be postponed. There are other things that we will do and continue to do now. So we just did dual carrier operations in the Central Command AOR within the last week. We did a very large exercise with the Air Force over the Philippine…

Congress

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