USS Gridley, USS Ronald Reagan, & USS Jefferson City (Los Angeles Class Sub)

A show of USA Navy muscle on San Diego bay in early June, 2010: The Supercarrier USS Ronald Reagan CVN 76 leaving San Diego on a training exercise; the USS Gridley DDG 101 also leaving; and a Los Angeles Class submarine, the USS Jefferson City, pulling in from a training mission.

The Nimitz-Class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan CVN-76 and the USS Gridley DDG-101, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, are both in the Carrier Strike Group 7.

There are currently two Nimitz-class carriers stationed in San Diego: USS Ronald Reagan CVN-76 and the USS Carl Vinson CVN-70. Effective December 2010, USS Nimitz CVN-68 is no longer based in San DIego, and wil be stationed in Everett Washington in 2012, following the year 2011 in maintenance at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

There are ten of these type carriers in the world. The tenth and final in this series of ships is the USS George H.W. Bush, CVN-77, which is stationed in Norfolk Virginia. I've filmed six of the ten: those films are posted at my channel.

There is a new class of aircraft carrier, the FORD-class, the first of which, USS Gerald R. Ford, CVN-78, is under construction and expected to be completed in 2015.

Wikipedia - About the USS Gridley,...
" The fourth USS Gridley (DDG-101) is the fifty-first Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Gridley is named after Captain Charles Gridley, Commander of Admiral George Dewey's flagship Olympia, (Flag Captain) and recipient of Admiral Dewey's famous command, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.

In May 2004, the Secretary of the Navy announced the names of five new Arleigh Burke class destroyers, including Gridley. Her keel was laid on 30 July 2004 at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. She was christened on 11 February 2006. The Gridley was commissioned at the Port of Miami on Saturday, February 10, 2007. " Source- Wikipedia

She has joined the Pacific Fleet and is homeported at Naval Base San Diego.

Wikipedia, About the the L.A. class attack sub,...

"The Los Angeles class, sometimes called the LA class or the 688 class, is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines (SSN) that forms the backbone of the United States submarine fleet. With 45 submarines on active-duty (and 17 retired), this class has more boats than any other nuclear powered submarine class in the world. The class was preceded by the Sturgeon class and followed by the Seawolf and Virginia classes. Except for USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-709), submarines of this class are named after U.S. cities, breaking a long-standing Navy tradition of naming attack submarines after sea creatures." Wikipedia
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The ten United States Nimitz-class supercarriers are:

USS Nimitz CVN-68
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lokv7tCkllY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjUTQiUS2EE


USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN-69

USS Carl Vinson CVN-70
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6FXnMnuaiQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GbHVcxEF08

USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71

USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oWeFpe5Aco

USS George Washington CVN-73
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4ZXXQiOjmc

USS John C. Stennis CVN-74
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COq1kK9fkAw

USS Harry Truman CVN-75

USS Ronald Reagan CVN-76
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyaESMrOxts

USS George H.W. Bush CVN-77

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[mikelee8873]

is the attack sub part of the battle group? what about those ballistic subs? do they operate independently or also part of the battle group?

[TallSky]

@mikelee8873 No, the Jefferson was coming in as the others were going out. But Carrier Strike Groups have at least one sub. This film was of a departing training mission of CVN76, not a deployment. As far as Ohio-class subs, which you are referring to as "ballistic", they are not stationed in San Diego. A logical assumption is that Ohio-class operate more independently. Occasionally Ohio class stop in San Diego, and they train far offshore here, but I have yet to film one of them.

[markpavely3]

The sub is SSN 759, USS JEFFERSON CITY

[TallSky]

@markpavely3 thanks for the info - I will place that name in the video title now.

[SuperboyConnerKent]

Dude, I envy you on so many levels. First of all you live in San Diego, you get to see these monsters maneuver all day long, you've got the Pacific Ocean on your doorstep, surfing, sunny days. That is the life.

P.S. I noticed that some of your clips of the Carriers in San Diego are all filmed from some highpoint. Did you do them from the top of a building? Or some tall hill?

[TallSky]

@SuperboyConnerKent thank you - Yes, SD's weather is tops. The ships aren't monsters, but they can pulverize monsterous threats to free societies - they protect your ass. They hold some of the strongest and most intelligent people, while the dumbest sit in Washington, D.C. The beaches here are pleasant, but there are few places to find solitude. Spanish is spoken devisively here, and too often here there is a lack of due respect for the US. The high point here is Point Loma.

[colindominy]

Congrats, you take superb footage, & with distinct skill. Good to see US military muscle here. Some great background shots of San Diego here too .. makes me want to revist .. been too long. My Aussie sister lives in LA .. I've been to Calif many times in the past, & we Aussies love you guys. But my sis tells me that many things are going wrong these days in Calif (massive influx of o'whelming mex culture & mass u'employ't) + the USA at large. Same things happening here in Oz. Poor govt in power.

[jgwimmer]

@RJF1966 All of the carriers are built by what was Northrop Grumman at the Newport News shipyard in Newport News, Virginia. The average length of time from the receipt of long lead materials to commissioning is 7 years with about 15,000 people including sub contractors working on the ship. They carry 2 air wings totaling about 80 aircraft. Average crew size is about 5200. They are self contained cities.

[RJF1966]

i had a uncle that served on the Nimitz...i went to norfolk to see him and the carrier ..the first thing i thought was "oh my god this thing is big" Then you think about the firepower those monsters carry..incredible feat of engineering to build one and fills me with pride that we have 11 of these ships

[pauldrake2511]

god bless the people aboard her and all that serve.go navey hell ,ya!i respect all service personal. they are our first line of defence to protect this great nation so blessed by god!

[MetalApocalypse999]

@jeffdarga100 safe being of our country : Priceless

[MetalApocalypse999]

@jeffdarga100 safe being of our county ...Priceless