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List Of Units Of The United States Navy
This article is a list of commands of the United States Navy. The list is organized along administrative chains of command (CoC), and does not include the CNO's office or shore establishments. Deployable/operational U.S. Navy units typically have two chains of command the ''operational'' chain and the ''administrative'' chain. Operational CoCs change quite often based on a unit's location and current mission. For example, is always administratively assigned to Commander, Naval Air Force, Atlantic Fleet (CNAL). It might also be operationally assigned to CNAL early in its inter-deployment readiness cycle (IDRC). Before 2010, later in the IDRC, it would have been assigned to Commander, Second Fleet, which is responsible for Carrier Strike Group (CSG) training and operations on the east coast. Once the CSG deploys and crosses over the inter- UCC boundary in the mid-Atlantic, it then reports (is "chopped") to the Sixth Fleet (responsible for European waters and the Mediterra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage of its active battle fleet alone exceeding the next 13 navies combined, including 11 allies or partner nations of the United States as of 2015. It has the highest combined battle fleet tonnage (4,635,628 tonnes as of 2019) and the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet, with eleven in service, two new carriers under construction, and five other carriers planned. With 336,978 personnel on active duty and 101,583 in the Ready Reserve, the United States Navy is the third largest of the United States military service branches in terms of personnel. It has 290 deployable combat vessels and more than 2,623 operational aircraft . The United States Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during the American Revo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Zumwalt
USS ''Zumwalt'' (DDG-1000) is a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. She is the lead ship of the and the first ship to be named after Admiral Elmo Zumwalt. ''Zumwalt'' has stealth capabilities, having a radar cross-section similar to a fishing boat despite her large size. On 7 December 2015, ''Zumwalt'' began her sea trial preparatory to joining the Pacific Fleet. The ship was commissioned in Baltimore on 15 October 2016. Her home port is San Diego, California. Namesake ''Zumwalt'' is named after Elmo Russell Zumwalt Jr., who was an American naval officer and the youngest man to serve as the Chief of Naval Operations. As an admiral and later the 19th Chief of Naval Operations, Zumwalt played a major role in U.S. military history, especially during the Vietnam War. A highly decorated war veteran, Zumwalt reformed the US Navy's personnel policies in an effort to improve enlisted life and ease racial tensions. After he retired from a 32-year naval career, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS O'Kane
USS ''O'Kane'' (DDG-77) is an in the United States Navy. The ship was built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, starting on 8 May 1997. The ship was commissioned on 23 October 1999. She is named for Medal of Honor recipient Rear Admiral Richard O'Kane. Service history USS ''O'Kane'', a Baseline 5.3 Flight II ''Arleigh Burke''-class guided missile destroyer, is the 27th destroyer of the class and the sixteenth built by Bath Iron Works. ''O’Kane'' is the second ship to be commissioned in her home port of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She was laid down on 8 May 1997 at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, launched on 28 March 1998, christened on 17 April 1998 and commissioned 23 October 1999. While transiting to Pearl Harbor on 2 October 1999, twenty one days prior to her commissioning, ''O'Kane'' briefly rendezvoused off the coast of Ixtapa, Mexico with the decommissioned battleship en route to Philadelphia for restoration as a museum ship. ''O'Kane'' participated in RIMPAC 2000. ''O'Kane' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Higgins
USS ''Higgins'' (DDG-76) is a United States Navy (Flight II). ''Higgins'' is the 26th ship of her class, and the 15th of the class to be built by Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine. Construction began on 14 November 1996 and she was launched and christened on 4 October 1997. She was commissioned at a ceremony in Port Everglades, Florida on 24 April 1999. She is part of Destroyer Squadron 15 within the Seventh Fleet, and is homeported at United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka in Yokosuka, Japan. Namesake She is named for William R. Higgins, a Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, who was captured, tortured and murdered in 1988 by Hezbollah, during a UN peacekeeping mission to Lebanon. In 1992 he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal, and two years later it was announced that a ship would be named in his honor. History ''Higgins'' was built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. The ship was christened on 1 October 1997 by the wife of Colone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Sterett (DDG-104)
USS ''Sterett'' (DDG-104) is a Flight IIA guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. Etymology USS ''Sterett'' is the fourth ship of the U.S. Navy to be named after Andrew Sterett, a U.S. naval officer who fought in the Quasi-War and the Barbary Wars. History The contract to build USS ''Sterett'' was awarded to Bath Iron Works Corporation in Bath, Maine on 13 September 2002. On 17 November 2005, her keel was laid down, and she was christened on 19 May 2007. The ship's sponsor was Michelle Sterett Bernson, a familial descendant of Andrew Sterett, who himself had no children. The vessel's commissioning took place in Baltimore, Maryland, Andrew Sterett's birthplace, on 9 August 2008. The ship's home port is Naval Base San Diego. The ship was attacked without warning by Somali pirates using rocket-propelled grenades on 22 February 2011, during negotiations with the pirates for the release of four U.S. hostages, who were eventually killed. The ship was under th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Shoup
USS ''Shoup'' (DDG-86) is an in the United States Navy. The ship is named for Medal of Honor recipient General David M. Shoup, the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps. Construction, on the 36th destroyer of her class, began at the Northrop Grumman Ship Systems' Ingalls Operations on 10 November 1998. ''Shoup'' was the 16th ship of this class to be built at Ingalls Shipbuilding. Her keel was laid on 13 December 1999 and she was launched on 22 November 2000. ''Shoup'' sailed into the Gulf of Mexico for the first of her sea trials on 11 December 2001. The vessel was delivered to the Navy by Northrop Grumman on 18 February 2002 and departed Pascagoula, Mississippi on 22 April 2002. ''Shoup'' was commissioned on 22 June 2002 at Port Terminal 37 in Seattle, Washington. Service history 2000s In July 2002, she successfully conducted the US Navy's operational evaluation of the RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile with two test firings. In January 2005, she participated in Operati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Howard (DDG-83)
USS ''Howard'' (DDG-83) is an in the United States Navy. She is named for Medal of Honor recipient First Sergeant Jimmie E. Howard, USMC. This ship is the 33rd destroyer of her class. USS ''Howard'' was the 19th ship of this class to be built by Bath Iron Works at Bath, Maine, and construction began on 8 December 1998. She was launched and christened on 20 November 1999. She was commissioned into the Navy on 20 October 2001. Namesake The ship is named in honor of 1st Sgt. Jimmie E. Howard, USMC (1929–1993), recipient of the Medal of Honor for his leadership of a platoon against repeated attacks by a battalion-sized Viet Cong force. After receiving severe wounds from an enemy grenade, he distributed ammunition to his men and directed air strikes on the enemy. By dawn, his beleaguered platoon still held their position. Howard had also received the Silver Star Medal for his service in the Korean War. Every time ''Howard'' set to sea from her previous homeport of San Diego, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destroyer Squadron 1
Destroyer Squadron ONE, also known as ''Destroyer Squadron 1'' and often abbreviated at '' DESRON ONE'' or ''DESRON 1'', is a squadron of warships of the United States Navy. It is an operational component of Carrier Strike Group One and is administratively responsible to Commander, Naval Surface Forces Pacific. The Squadron's combat mission is to support the Operational Commander (currently Carrier Strike Group One) in achieving optimum combat readiness for his ships and to ensure adherence to Type Commander requirements. As such, Commander, Destroyer Squadron One (COMDESRON-1) conducts continuous, extensive liaison and coordination with the assigned Operational Commander. In addition to operations in the U.S. Third Fleet, the squadron's ships have deployed to the Persian Gulf as part of the U.S. Fifth Fleet, to the Western Pacific as part of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, and regularly support Joint Task Force North counter-drug operations in South America and the Caribbean Sea, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Princeton (CG-59)
USS ''Princeton'' (CG-59) is a guided missile cruiser serving in the United States Navy. Armed with naval guns and anti-air, anti-surface, and anti-submarine missiles, plus other weapons, she is equipped for surface-to-air, surface-to-surface, and anti-submarine warfare. She was previously home to two SH-60B LAMPS Mk III Seahawk helicopters and now carries a pair of the MH-60R version of the Seahawk. This warship is named for the Revolutionary War victories over the British by George Washington in and around the town of Princeton, New Jersey. ''Princeton'' was the first ''Ticonderoga''-class cruiser to carry the upgraded AN/SPY-1B radar system. Operational history The ship was commissioned on 11 February 1989 in the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. After traveling through the Panama Canal, ''Princeton'' was home-ported at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, California. Vladivostok port visit In 1990, ''Princeton'' served as the flagship for the first US Navy vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Lake Erie (CG-70)
USS ''Lake Erie'' (CG-70) is a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy, commissioned in 1993. She was named after the U.S. Navy's decisive victory in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. The cruiser was the first U.S. Navy ship to be commissioned in Hawaii. History ''Lake Erie'' was built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. Her keel was laid on 6 March 1990 and she was launched on 13 July 1991. Upon completion of her sea-trials after construction, ''Lake Erie'' transferred to the Pacific Fleet and was commissioned on 24 July 1993 as the twenty-fourth ''Ticonderoga''-class guided missile cruiser in her homeport of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ''Lake Erie'' is a baseline 4 ''Ticonderoga''-class ship, with integrated AN/UYK-43/ 44 computers (in place of UYK-7 and UYK-20) and superset computer programs originally developed for the guided missile destroyers. ''Lake Erie'' also has an improved UYS-20 data display system and various decision aids, as well as the SQS- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naval Air Station North Island
Naval Air Station North Island or NAS North Island , at the north end of the Coronado peninsula on San Diego Bay in San Diego, California, is part of the largest aerospace-industrial complex in the United States Navy – Naval Base Coronado (NBC), and the home port of several aircraft carriers of the United States Navy. The commanding officer of NAS North Island (NASNI) is also the Commanding Officer, Naval Base Coronado (NBC). As such, he or she commands or administers NASNI and seven other naval facilities: Naval Amphibious Base Coronado (NABC); Outlying Field Imperial Beach; Silver Strand Training Complex; Remote Training Site, Warner Springs; Mountain Warfare Training Camp Michael Monsoor; Camp Morena; and Naval Auxiliary Landing Facility San Clemente Island. NBC, with only its commands in the metropolitan San Diego area, brackets the city of Coronado from the entrance to San Diego Bay to the Mexican border Mexico shares international borders with three nations: *T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Carl Vinson
USS ''Carl Vinson'' (CVN-70) is the United States Navy's third supercarrier. She is named for Carl Vinson (1883-1981), a congressman from Georgia, in recognition of his contributions to the U.S. Navy. The ship was launched during Vinson's lifetime in 1980, undertook her maiden voyage in 1983, and underwent refueling and overhaul between 2005 and 2009. Besides deployments in Operation Desert Strike, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Southern Watch, and Operation Enduring Freedom, ''Carl Vinson'' has been involved in a number of notable events. The body of Osama bin Laden was buried at sea in 2011 from the deck of ''Carl Vinson'', and that same year, on Veterans Day, she played host to the first NCAA basketball game on an aircraft carrier, between North Carolina and Michigan State. Namesake A member of the United States House of Representatives for 50 years, Carl Vinson was, for 29 years, the Chairman of the House Naval Affairs and Armed Services Committee; Vinson was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
