Keywords: US Navy 040317-N-5328N-032 USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) arrives at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., for a four-day port visit after completing a Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMTUEX) in the Gulf of Mexico.jpg en Pensacola Fla Mar 17 2004 USS John F Kennedy CV 67 arrives at Naval Air Station Pensacola Fla for a four-day port visit after completing a Composite Training Unit Exercise COMTUEX in the Gulf of Mexico COMPTUEX is an intermediate level exercise designed to forge the strike group into a cohesive fighting team and is a critical step in pre-deployment training During COMPTUEX more than a dozen ships and Carrier Air Wing Seventeen CVW-17 embarked on Kennedy conducted war game exercises using training ranges along the East Coast of the U S and the Gulf of Mexico The exercise took advantage of existing ranges under the Navy s comprehensive Training Resource Strategy TRS These ranges offer training facilities and realistic simulations better preparing U S Navy ships and Sailors to participate in the Global War on Terrorism U S Navy photo by Gary Nichols RELEASED Mar 17 2004 040317-N-5328N-032 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 12773 U S Navy photo by Gary Nichols PD-USGov-Military-Navy Aboard USS John F Kennedy CV-67 Naval Air Station Pensacola |