Harry Yarnell (CG 17) - Naval Cruise Book

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Baltic Operations (BALTOPS ' 90) Baltops is an annual, multi-national event consisting of a week of at sea exercises in the Baltic Sea. The c.xerci.ses are designed to provide valuable training for numerous allied forces, as well as demon- strate the freedom to conduct such operations within the geographical confines of the Baltic. BAl.TOPS 90 included participating forces from the IS. Belgium. Denmark, the Netherlands, and the Federal Republic of GernKin . ■. R ' ELL served as the US Flagship during this period for Admiral Thomas D. Paulsen and found this year ' s event .1 huge success, with all participants gaining valuable insight and mu- tual professional respect for their allied counterparts. The exercise uas wrapped up in port with five da s in Kiel. West Germany cele- brating Kieler Woche or Kiel V eek, and several other festive port visits, including V.ARNELL ' s trip to Poland. Other US ships involved with Baltops 90 included Norfolk based destroyer USS BRISCOE (DD-977). Fast Frigate LSS PH. RRIS (EF-1094), Fleet Oiler USS MONOGAHELA (AO-178) and Newport. Rl based guided missile frigate I ' SS 98

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WARSAW PACT ENCOUNTERS As warriors, the men of YARNELL train to meet and beat The Threat. During their travels in the Mediterranean and Morcso in the Baltic, they got to exchange gazes with some of the ships they had learned so much about. Soviet and Warsaw Pact naval and intelligence forces passed by. shadowed, and even hailed V. R- NELL during these deployments. Always inter- esting to see, here are a few which came close enough for pictures: 100 Warsaw Pact Encounters