DVIDS:
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94) departed Naval Base Norfolk Friday, November 2nd, to participate in the Navy’s first East Coast Carrier Strike Group (CSG) cruiser-destroyer (CRUDES) Surface Warfare Advanced Tactical Training (SWATT) exercise.
SWATT is led by Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC) and is designed to increase warfighting proficiency, lethality, and interoperability of participating units.
Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) Carrier Strike Group 12 (CSG 12) cruiser-destroyer (CRUDES) units are participating alongside Nitze during this exercise to include the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87), Gonzalez (DDG 66), and Bainbridge (DDG 96), and the guided-missile cruiser Leyte Gulf (CG 55).
“SMWDC Warfare Tactics Instructors (WTI’s) improve ships’ proficiency in carrying out missions in the surface, anti-submarine, integrated air and missile defense, and information warfare domains,” said Lt. Cmdr. Nick Van Wagoner, a SMWDC Headquarters assigned Warfare Tactics Instructor (WTI) and lead planner for the exercise.
