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Budget Highlights Book - DON FM&C Website - U.S. Navy

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February 2010Integrating Sustained Support for Warfighting Needsof an American ship captain. Among the various strike options, our sea‐basedplatforms are unique and provide preeminent capabilities that will be maintained.This versatility and lethality can be applied across the spectrum of operations, fromdestroying terrorist base camps and protecting friendly forces involved in sustainedcounterinsurgency or stability operations, to defeating enemy anti‐access defenses insupport of amphibious operations. We are refocusing this strategic capability moreintensely in Afghanistan in an effort tocounter the increasing threat of a wellarmedanti‐Coalition militia includingTaliban, al Qaeda, criminal gangs,narcoterrorists, and any other antigovernmentelements that threaten thepeace and stability of Afghanistan. Ourincreased efforts to deter or defeataggression and improve overall securityand counter violent extremism and terrorist networks advance the interests of theU.S. and the security of the region. The FY 2010/FY 2011 contingency operationsrequests support the expansion of capabilities sufficient to secure Afghanistan andprevent it from again becoming a haven for international terrorism and associatedmilitant extremist movements.The <strong>Navy</strong> has 53,000 active and reserve sailors continually deployed in support ofthe contingency operations overseas serving as members of carrier strike groups,expeditionary strike groups, Special Operating Forces, Seabee units, Marine forces,medical units, and as IAs. Our Sailors are fully engaged on the ground, in the air,and at sea in support of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. On the ground, our<strong>Navy</strong> has 12,300 active and reserve Sailors in Central Command supporting <strong>Navy</strong>,Joint Force and Combatant Commander requirements. <strong>Navy</strong> Commanders areleading six of the twelve U.S.‐lead Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan.A significant portion of the combat air missions over Afghanistan are flown by navalair forces. Our elite teams of <strong>Navy</strong> SEALs are heavily engaged in combatoperations, <strong>Navy</strong> Explosive Ordnance Disposal platoons are defusing ImprovisedExplosive Devices and landmines. Our SEABEE construction battalions arerebuilding schools and restoring critical infrastructure. <strong>Navy</strong> sealift is delivering themajority of heavy war equipment to CENTCOM, while <strong>Navy</strong> logisticians areensuring materiel arrives on time. Our <strong>Navy</strong> doctors are providing medicalassistance in the field and at forward operating bases. <strong>Navy</strong> IAs are providingFY 2011 Department of the <strong>Navy</strong> <strong>Budget</strong> 2‐3

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