Keywords: US Navy 040319-N-0000K-104 Thousands of people wait in line for their turn to embark on a tour of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67).jpg en Naval Air Station Pensacola Fla Mar 19 2004 - Thousands of people wait in line for their turn to embark on a tour of the aircraft carrier USS John F Kennedy CV 67 Kennedy arrived at Naval Air Station Pensacola Fla on March 17th 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 RELEASED 2004-03-19 040319-N-0000K-104 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 12816 U S Navy photo PD-USGov-Military-Navy Naval Air Station Pensacola Aboard USS John F Kennedy CV-67 |