Mission statement
The mission of Tenth Fleet is to plan, monitor, direct, assess, communicate, coordinate, and execute operations to enable command and control and set the conditions for subordinate success by: * Serving as the numbered fleet for U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and exercise operational control over U.S. Fleet Cyber Command-assigned forces. *Directing and delivering desired tactical and operational effects in and through cyberspace, space and theFleet organization
U.S. Tenth Fleet has operational control over Navy information, computer, cryptologic, and space forces. U.S. Tenth Fleet standing forces are organized into Task forces and task groups. U.S. Navy usage routinely emphasizes the Commander of the Task Force, thus CTF (and CTG) rather than TF.Network operations and defense
*CTF 1010 Naval Network Warfare Command ( NNWC), "NETWARCOM" **CTG 1010.1 NCTAMS LANT **CTG 1010.2 NCTAMS PAC **CTG 1010.5 NCTS Bahrain **CTG 1010.6 NCTS Naples *CTF 1020 CO NCDOC **CTG 1020.1 NCDOC **CTG 1020.2 Navy Information Operations Command (NIOC) PensacolaInformation operations
*CTF 1030 CO NIOC Norfolk **CTG 1030.1 NIOC Norfolk **CTG 1030.2 NIOC San Diego **CTG 1030.3 NIOC Whidbey Island NIOC Norfolk and NIOC San Diego disbanded and are now Naval Information Warfare Training Group (Norfolk / San Diego)Research and development
*CTF 1090 CO NCWDGService cryptologic component operations
*CTF 1000 C10F **CTG 1000.1 NIOC Menwith Hill Station **CTG 1000.2 NIOC Sugar Grove **CTG 1000.3 NIOC Misawa **CTG 1000.4 NIOC Texas **CTG 1000.5 NIOC Georgia **CTG 1000.6 CWG-6 (formerly NIOC Maryland) **CTG 1000.7 NIOC Hawaii **CTG 1000.8 NIOC Colorado **CTG 1000.9 NIOD Yakima **CTG 1000.10 NIOD Alice SpringsFleet and theater operations
*CTF 1040 CO NIOC Texas **CTG 1040.1 NIOC Texas *CTF 1050 CO NIOC Georgia **CTG 1050.1 NIOC Georgia **CTG 1050.2 NIOC Bahrain *CTF 1060 CO CWG-6 **CTG 1060.1 CWMA-61 **CTG 1060.2 FIOC UK *CTF 1070 CO NIOC Hawaii **CTG 1070.1 NIOC Hawaii **CTG 1070.2 NIOC Yokosuka **CTG 1070.3 NIOC Misawa *CTF 1080 CO NIOC Colorado **CTG 1080.1 NIOC Colorado For a period from 2010 U.S. Tenth Fleet's task forces used the Task Force 100 Task Force 109 designation series.History
World War II: Anti-submarine warfare
As soon as the United States officially declared war on Nazi Germany in late 1941, an urgent need developed to consolidate and coordinate anti-submarine operations. Although allied ship traffic had been subject to German U-boat attacks since the hostilities in Europe began, Germany began aggressively attacking American targets after the U.S. officially entered the war. U.S. Tenth Fleet was established on 20 May 1943 based on a recommendations Fleet Admiral Ernest King made to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a memo entitled "Anti-submarine Operations." The memo proposed a central organization with access to all intelligence about German U-boats and the authority to direct Navy ships to prosecute them. Tenth Fleet became a clearing house for everything involvingOperations
The Operations section headed by Captain Haines, was formed from the original Atlantic section of the Commander in Chief's Combat Intelligence Division, led by Commander Kenneth Knowles, whose intelligence was instrumental in U.S. Tenth Fleet's prosecution of the U-Boat threat. This section utilized information from all the other sections combined with all source intelligence to guide the operations of so-called "hunter-killer groups" tasked with finding and destroying German U-Boats. Sources included intercepted German communications provided by OP-20-G, the precursor organization to Naval Security Group, and interrogations of captured U-Boat crews provided by OP- 16-Z, Naval Intelligence's Special Activities Branch.
Anti-submarine Measures
The Anti-submarine Measures section, led by Captain Fitz, was divided into Air and Surface sections. This branch was responsible for the correlation of ASW research, materiel development, and training. In June of 1943, they began publishing a monthly U.S. Fleet Anti-submarine Bulletin, which came to be known as the "Yellow Peril". The Yellow Peril discussed the latest in ASW training, new technological developments, dissected previous months U-Boat battles, among other bits of data. Each issue exceeded fifty pages. Due to its comprehensiveness and reliability, demand for the Yellow Peril was extremely high, even among the Allies.
Convoy and Routine
The Convoy and Routing section, chaired by Rear Admiral Martin Metcalf, was responsible for tracking the U.S. portion of convoys and planning routes they would take across the Atlantic. Known as C&R, itsWhile not the only organization in the war combating German U-boats, the efforts of U.S. Tenth Fleet certainly helped bring about the end of the U-boat threat. Prior to the establishment of U.S. Tenth Fleet, the Allies averaged barely more than four U-boats sunk per month. During the month U.S. Tenth Fleet was established, the Allies sank 41, and averaged more than 23 per month thereafter. Oberleutnant zur See Herbert A. Werner, a former U-boat commander and one of the few to survive the war, described it succinctly when he said, "The Allied counter-offensive permanently reversed the tide of battle. Almost overnight, the hunters had become the hunted, and through the rest of the war our boats were slaughtered at a fearful rate."WAVES Waves most often refers to: * Waves, oscillations accompanied by a transfer of energy that travel through space or mass. * Wind waves, surface waves that occur on the free surface of bodies of water. Waves may also refer to: Music *Waves (ban ...maintained massive wall charts detailing all ongoing convoy operations in the Atlantic. Intelligence received by the Operations Branch, once sanitized, was also added to these charts.
U.S. Fleet Cyber Command
U.S. Tenth Fleet was recommissioned 29 January 2010 as the numbered fleet ofList of Commanders
See also
* List of cyber warfare forces * Navy Information Forces *References
Further reading
*Ladislas Farago, ''The Tenth Fleet: The True Story of the U.S. Navy's "Phantom" Fleet Battling U-Boats During World War II'' New York: I. Obolensky (1962) *David Kohnen, ''Commanders Winn and Knowles: Winning the U-boat War with Intelligence'' (Enigma Press, 1999). *David Kohnen, "Tombstone of Victory: Tracking the U-505 From German Commerce Raider to American War Memorial, 1944–1954" in ''The Journal of America's Military Past'' (Winter, 2007). *David Kohnen, "F-21 and F-211: A Fresh Look into the Secret Room" in Randy C. Bolano and Craig L. Symonds, ed., ''New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers from the Fourteenth Naval History Symposium'' (Naval Institute Press, 2001). *Montgomery Meigs, ''Slide Rules and Submarines: American Scientists and Subsurface Warfare in World War II'' (University Press of the Pacific, 2002)External links
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