Pacific wings

At sea with the US Navy’s ‘911’ air wing

The US Navy’s sole forward deployed carrier air wing, CVW-5 takes pride in being at the ‘tip of the sword’. A regular visitor to Australia and dubbed ‘the Nation’s only 911 Air Wing’, its squadrons have to be ready to conduct operations anywhere within the Seventh Fleet’s Area Of Responsibility (AOR) at short notice.

Potential flashpoints in Korea, China, South East Asia and the Indian subcontinent all fall within CVW-5’s vast AOR, and the air wing would almost certainly find itself in the vanguard of US operations in these areas.