The Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMSUBPAC) is the principal advisor to the Commander,

United States Pacific Fleet The United States Pacific Fleet (USPACFLT) is a theater-level component command of the United States Navy, located in the Pacific Ocean. It provides naval forces to the Indo-Pacific Command. Fleet headquarters is at Joint Base Pearl Harbor� ...

( COMPACFLT) for submarine matters. The Pacific Submarine Force (SUBPAC) includes attack,

ballistic missile A ballistic missile is a type of missile that uses projectile motion to deliver warheads on a target. These weapons are powered only during relatively brief periods—most of the flight is unpowered. Short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM) typic ...

and auxiliary submarines,

submarine tender A submarine tender, in British English a submarine depot ship, is a type of depot ship that supplies and supports submarines. Development Submarines are small compared to most oceangoing vessels, and generally cannot carry large amounts of foo ...

s, floating submarine docks,

deep submergence vehicle A deep-submergence vehicle (DSV) is a deep-diving crewed submersible that is self-propelled. Several navies operate vehicles that can be accurately described as DSVs. DSVs are commonly divided into two types: research DSVs, which are used for ex ...

s and submarine rescue vehicles throughout the Pacific. The Force provides anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface ship warfare, precision land strike, mine warfare, intelligence, surveillance and early warning and special warfare capabilities to the

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command The United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) is the unified combatant command of the United States Armed Forces responsible for the Indo-Pacific region. It is the oldest and largest of the unified combatant commands. Its commander, ...

and strategic deterrence capabilities to the

U.S. Strategic Command The United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands in the United States Department of Defense. Headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, USSTRATCOM is responsible for strategic nuclear ...

. COMSUBPAC's mission is to provide the training, logistical plans, manpower and operational plans and support and tactical development necessary to maintain the ability of the Force to respond to both peacetime and wartime demands.

Submarines and Units

These are the submarines and related units reporting to COMSUBPAC.

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Commander,
Submarine Squadron 1 Submarine Squadron 1 (also known as SUBRON 1) is a squadron of submarines of the United States Navy based at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i. The submarines that make up SUBRON 1 include: * * * * * USS Vermont (SSN-79 ...
(COMSUBRON One)

* * * * * USS Vermont (SSN-792) *

USS Montana (SSN-794) ''Montana'' (SSN-794) is a Virginia-class attack submarine of the United States Navy. She honors the U.S. State of Montana. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the name on 3 September 2015 at a ceremony hosted in Billings, Montana with ...

Commander,
Submarine Squadron 7 Submarine Squadron 7 (also known as SUBRON 7) is a squadron of submarines of the United States Navy based at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Pearl Harbor, HI under the command of Captain Corey Poorman. History Naval Historical Center records ...
(COMSUBRON Seven)

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Bremerton, Washington

* Priority Material Office

Bangor, Washington

Commander, Submarine Group 9 (COMSUBGRU Nine)

Commander, Submarine Squadron 17 (COMSUBRON Seventeen)

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Commander, Submarine Squadron 19 (COMSUBRON Nineteen)

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Commander, Submarine Development Squadron 5 (COMSUBDEVRON Five)

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Commander, Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Group 1 (COMUUVGRU One)

* Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Squadron One (UUVRON One) * Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Squadron Three (UUVRON Three)

San Diego, California

Arctic Submarine Laboratory The Arctic Submarine Laboratory is a research facility of the U.S. Navy's Undersea Warfighting Development Center in San Diego, California. It began as a converted World War II Mortar (artillery), mortar emplacement, ''Battery Whistler'', and wa ...

Commander,
Submarine Squadron 11 Submarine Squadron 11 (also known as SUBRON 11) is a squadron of submarines based at Point Loma Submarine Base, San Diego, California, United States. Submarine Squadron 11 was commissioned July 1, 1986, aboard her flagship, , at Naval Submarine ...
(COMSUBRON Eleven)

* * * * * *Undersea Rescue Command

Western Pacific

Commander, Submarine Group 7 (COMSUBGRU Seven) (Yokosuka, Japan)

* Responsible for submarines deployed to the Western Pacific, the

Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf, sometimes called the Arabian Gulf, is a Mediterranean seas, mediterranean sea in West Asia. The body of water is an extension of the Arabian Sea and the larger Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.Un ...

Red Sea The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and th ...

Gulf of Oman The Gulf of Oman or Sea of Oman ( ''khalīj ʿumān''; ''daryâ-ye omân''), also known as Gulf of Makran or Sea of Makran ( ''khalīj makrān''; ''daryâ-ye makrān''), is a gulf in the Indian Ocean that connects the Arabian Sea with th ...

Arabian Sea The Arabian Sea () is a region of sea in the northern Indian Ocean, bounded on the west by the Arabian Peninsula, Gulf of Aden and Guardafui Channel, on the northwest by Gulf of Oman and Iran, on the north by Pakistan, on the east by India, and ...

and parts of the

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approximately 20% of the water area of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia (continent), ...

Commander,
Submarine Squadron 15 Submarine Squadron 15 (also known as SUBRON 15) is a squadron of submarines of the United States Navy based at Naval Base Guam. Fleet Ballistic Missile squadron 1963–1981 Submarine Squadron Fifteen was established on 1 September 1963 at Pear ...
(COMSUBRON Fifteen) (Guam)

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Commander, Submarine Squadron 21 (COMSUBRON TWENTY ONE) (Bahrain)

Virginia Beach, Virginia

* Commander, Undersea Surveillance * Naval Ocean Processing Facility

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, Washington * Integrated Undersea Surveillance System Operational Support Center Little Creek, Virginia

Officers serving as COMSUBPAC

Rear Admiral Rear admiral is a flag officer rank used by English-speaking navies. In most European navies, the equivalent rank is called counter admiral. Rear admiral is usually immediately senior to commodore and immediately below vice admiral. It is ...

Wilhelm L. Friedell Wilhelm Lee Friedell (August 22, 1883 – January 27, 1958), was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. Friedell was in command of the U. S. Naval Submarine Forces in European Waters during World War I, and was the commander of COMSUBPAC prior ...

, 1939–1941 *Rear Admiral Thomas Withers, Jr., 1941–May 1942 *Rear Admiral

Robert H. English Robert Henry English (16 January 1888 – 21 January 1943) was a United States Navy commissioned officer who commanded the U.S. Navy's submarine force in the Pacific Theater of Operations early in World War II. English was born in Warrenton, G ...

, May 1942–20 January 1943 (killed in an aircraft accident) *

Captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader or highest rank officer of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police depa ...

John H. "Babe" Brown (''

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''), 20 Jan 1943–1943 *Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, 1943–1946 *Rear Admiral

Allan Rockwell McCann Vice Admiral Allan Rockwell McCann, (September 20, 1896 – February 22, 1978) was a United States Navy officer who served in World War I and World War II. His US Navy Serial number was 10829. Education Admiral McCann attended Mark Hopkins Gram ...

, 1946–1948 *Rear Admiral Oswald S. Colclough, 1948–1949 *Rear Admiral John H. "Babe" Brown, 1949–1951 *Rear Admiral Charles B. "Swede" Momsen, 1951–1953 *Rear Admiral George L. Russell, 1953–1955 *Rear Admiral Leon J. Huffman, 1955–1956 *Rear Admiral Elton W. "Joe" Grenfell, 1956–1959^† *Rear Admiral William E. "Pete" Ferrall, 1959–1960^† *Rear Admiral Roy S. "Ensign" Benson, 1960–1962^† *Rear Admiral Bernard A. "Chick" Clarey, 1962–1964^† *Rear Admiral Eugene B. "Lucky" Fluckey, 1964–1966^† *Rear Admiral John H. Maurer, 1966–1968^† *Rear Admiral Walter L. Small, 1968–1970^† *Rear Admiral Paul L. Lacy, Jr., 1970–1972 (Last WW2 submarine skipper in the job) *Rear Admiral Frank D. McMullen, 1972-1975 *Rear Admiral Charles H. Griffiths, 1975-1977 *Rear Admiral William J. Cowhill, 1977-1979 *Rear Admiral Nils R. Thunman, 1979-1981 *Rear Admiral Bernard M. Kauderer, 1981-1983 *Rear Admiral Austin B. Scott, Jr., 1983-1985 *Rear Admiral James N. Darby, 1985-1987 *Rear Admiral Ralph W. West, Jr., 1987-1987 *Rear Admiral James G. Reynolds, 1987-1989 *Rear Admiral Michael C. Colley, 1989-1991 *Rear Admiral Henry C. McKinney, 1991-1993 *Rear Admiral Jon M. Barr, 1993-1996 *Rear Admiral Winford G. Ellis, 1996-1998 *Rear Admiral Albert H. Konetzni, Jr., 1998-2001 *Rear Admiral John B. Padgett, III, 2001-2003 *Rear Admiral Paul F. Sullivan, 2003-2005 *Rear Admiral Jeffrey B. Cassias, 2005-2006 *Rear Admiral Joseph A. Walsh, 2006-2008 *Rear Admiral Douglas J. McAneny, 2008–2010 *Rear Admiral James F. Caldwell, Jr., 2010–2013 *Rear Admiral Phillip G. Sawyer, 2013–2015 *Rear Admiral Frederick J. Roegge, 2015–2017 *Rear Admiral

Daryl Caudle Daryl Lane Caudle (born 1963) is a United States Navy admiral who is the 35th commander of United States Fleet Forces Command since 7 December 2021. He most recently served as commander of Naval Submarine Forces (COMSUBFOR), Commander, Submari ...

, 2017–2019 *Rear Admiral Blake L. Converse, 2019–2021 *Rear Admiral Jeffrey T. Jablon, 2021–2023 *Rear Admiral

Richard E. Seif Jr. Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and ...

, 2023–2025 *Rear Admiral

Christopher J. Cavanaugh Christopher is the English language, English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek language, Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or ''Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Jesus ...

, 2025–present ^† Wartime submarine skipper

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Submarines and Units

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Commander, Submarine Squadron 1 Submarine Squadron 1 (also known as SUBRON 1) is a squadron of submarines of the United States Navy based at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i. The submarines that make up SUBRON 1 include: * * * * * USS Vermont (SSN-79 ... (COMSUBRON One)

Commander, Submarine Squadron 7 Submarine Squadron 7 (also known as SUBRON 7) is a squadron of submarines of the United States Navy based at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Pearl Harbor, HI under the command of Captain Corey Poorman. History Naval Historical Center records ... (COMSUBRON Seven)

Bremerton, Washington

Bangor, Washington

Commander, Submarine Group 9 (COMSUBGRU Nine)

Commander, Submarine Squadron 17 (COMSUBRON Seventeen)

Commander, Submarine Squadron 19 (COMSUBRON Nineteen)

Commander, Submarine Development Squadron 5 (COMSUBDEVRON Five)

Commander, Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Group 1 (COMUUVGRU One)

San Diego, California

Western Pacific

Commander, Submarine Group 7 (COMSUBGRU Seven) (Yokosuka, Japan)

Commander, Submarine Squadron 21 (COMSUBRON TWENTY ONE) (Bahrain)

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Officers serving as COMSUBPAC

See also

References

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Commander,
Submarine Squadron 1 Submarine Squadron 1 (also known as SUBRON 1) is a squadron of submarines of the United States Navy based at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i. The submarines that make up SUBRON 1 include: * * * * * USS Vermont (SSN-79 ...
(COMSUBRON One)

Commander,
Submarine Squadron 7 Submarine Squadron 7 (also known as SUBRON 7) is a squadron of submarines of the United States Navy based at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Pearl Harbor, HI under the command of Captain Corey Poorman. History Naval Historical Center records ...
(COMSUBRON Seven)