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    around 2016. The first twenty-one Fleet Problems — labeled by Navy leadership as Fleet Problem I through Fleet Problem XXI — were conducted between 1923...
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    Fleet Problem XIII, which followed shortly afterward. Lexington was assigned to Black Fleet, defending Hawaii and the West Coast against Blue Fleet and...
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    Arizona regularly deployed for training exercises, including the annual Fleet Problems, excluding a comprehensive modernization between 1929 and 1931. The...
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    surprise attack from Lexington in Fleet Problem X in the Caribbean. Saratoga returned the favor shortly afterward in Fleet Problem XI, further demonstrating the...
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    operated off Panama with the fleet between 26 February and 11 April, conducting exercises and participating in Fleet Problem I. She then proceeded to Puget...
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    with a peacetime routine of training exercises (including the annual Fleet problems), port visits, and foreign cruises, including a visit to Australia in...
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    Pacific Fleet training as part of the series of Fleet Problems until 1939. Fleet Problem I.  18-22 February 1923. New York participated in Fleet Problem I. ...
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    participating in routine fleet training exercises, including the annual Fleet Problems, and cruises around the Americas and further abroad, such as a goodwill...
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    first war game—Fleet Problem XX—along with her sister-ship Enterprise in February 1939. The scenario for the exercise called for one fleet to control the...
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    participating in routine fleet training exercises, including the annual Fleet Problems, and cruises around the Americas and further abroad, such as a goodwill...
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    in battle practice and major fleet problems. In early 1934, she sailed for the east coast and a two-ocean fleet problem. Elliot was assigned new duty...
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    Fleet; throughout the 1920s and 1930s, they were involved in numerous Fleet Problems, which were large-scale training exercises that helped develop the doctrine...
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    post as the flagship of BatDiv 6. In early 1924, Utah took part in the Fleet Problem III maneuvers, where she and her sister Florida acted as stand-ins for...
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    to Cruiser Division 2 of the Asiatic Fleet in 1928. During an engagement with "enemy" cruisers during Fleet Problem IX on 16 April 1930, the ship was ruled...
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    Roosevelt's retention of the Fleet at Pearl Harbor in 1940 after Fleet Problem XXI, the Hoover Administration kept the Fleet concentrated on the West Coast...
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  • 2021. Morison, 28. Nofi, Albert A. (2010). To Train The Fleet For War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923–1940. Washington, DC: Naval War College Press....
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    problems and local operations from that port with the other ships in her division into 1936. Sailing for Balboa on 9 May 1936 to participate in Fleet...
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    participated in the normal activities of the fleet, including fleet problem exercises, and then joined the entire Pacific Fleet in their new base in Pearl Harbor...
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    Motors Winton engines. A year later, she sailed for participation in a fleet problem, torpedo practice and sound training in the Caribbean Sea and off the...
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    experiments off the Virginia Capes in 1921 before being sunk as part of Fleet Problem I off the coast of Panama in March 1923 by the battleship USS Mississippi...
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    USS West Virginia (BB-48) (category Pacific Reserve Fleet, Seattle, Washington)
    conducting routine training exercises, including the typically annual Fleet Problems, which provided invaluable experience for the coming war in the Pacific...
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    following spring, S-45 participated in Fleet Problem VIII, a convoy and antisubmarine search and contact problem conducted en route between San Francisco...
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    cancelled, as was the fleet problem for 1941, as the situation with Japan was approaching a crisis and the Navy determined that the fleet needed to be maintained...
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    January 1931, she joined the fleet in the Caribbean for Fleet Problem XII and, the following year, also participated in Fleet Problem XIII off Hawaii. Due to...
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    January 1929 Lexington along with Langley and Saratoga participated in Fleet Problem IX, a simulated aerial attack on the Panama Canal. Sprague's tour on...
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    airship in a fleet problem in 1931 permission had to be obtained from the Allied Control Commission. Los Angeles took part in Fleet Problems XII (1931)...
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    3 Body Problem is an American science fiction television series created by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss and Alexander Woo and the third streaming adaptation...
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    annual fleet problem that brought the entire United States Fleet together in a single, vast exercise. At the beginning of 1939, Fleet Problem XX concentrated...
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    following day, and resumed her participation in the fleet problem on the 16th as part of the "Green" fleet. After the exercises, Aylwin sailed to Peru and...
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    United States Navy Fleet Problem IX that annihilated the locks on the Panama canal, and Fleet Problem XIII, when the Pearl Harbor fleet was destroyed in...
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