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	U.S. 6th Fleet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sixth Fleet is a US Navy operational unit, headquartered on the command ship Mount Whitney (LCC-20) with its homeport in Gaeta, Italy and operating in the Mediterranean Sea.
		The Sixth Fleet consists of approximately 40 ships, 175 aircraft and 21,000 people and is the major operational component of Naval Forces Europe.
		The small fleet maintained in the Mediterranean by U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean was known as Naval Forces Mediterranean and had as its flagship, a destroyer tender, anchored at Naples, Italy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/US_6th_Fleet (726 words)

	US NAVY - Fleets
		Second Fleet operates primarily in the Atlantic Ocean from the North Pole to the South Pole and from the shores of the United States to the west coast of Europe.
		In peacetime the Third Fleet has no ARG and the carriers in the area are on their way to the Seventh Fleet or conduct training cruises after an overhaul for example.
		Third Fleet was formed as a fighting force under Admiral "Bull" Halsey on 15 March 1943, and reconstituted in the Middle and Eastern Pacific on 01 February 1975.
	navysite.de /navy/fleet.htm (1652 words)

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		SIXTH Fleet aircraft expended approximately 225 flight hours supporting Operation Guardian Assistance; a worthwhile investment that ensured the U.S. response to the crisis was appropriately focused.
		SIXTH Fleet forward deployed forces are on-the-scene, flexible and cost-effective in the shaping of this evolving environment.
		SIXTH Fleet has used these unique assets to engage navies at a level with which they are comfortable and more appropriate to the missions they conduct.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/testimony/readiness/abbt0304.txt (3732 words)

	HOME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SIXTH Fleet Band is the U.S. Navy's official band in Europe.
		The primary mission of SIXTH Fleet Band is support of military ceremonies such as changes of command, ship arrivals and departures, official receptions and other occasions which serve to enhance the morale and welfare of fleet personnel.
		The SIXTH Fleet band is comprised of professional Navy Musicians who are formed into full-time and specialty units designed to fulfill any possible request for musical support.
	www.nsa.naples.navy.mil /sixthfleet (216 words)

	A Testimony to The World
		Sixth Fleet Sailors and Marines protect American interests by using sea power in a manner that supports regional stability and fosters an environment in which peace and prosperity can flourish.
		The Sixth Fleet's influence in Europe, including the Caucasus, and in Africa is important to Americans for a variety of political and economic reasons.
		Sixth Fleet Sailors and Marines dedicated a great deal of their time and energy reaching out to people who are enduring personal and societal hardships as they transform their public and private institutions.
	www.navyleague.org /seapower_mag/oct2001/a_testimony.htm (1490 words)

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		The mission of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet is to train naval forces and to be prepared to deter and resist aggression in the area of responsibility assigned to the fleet.
		The Fleet operated in the South and Western Pacific during campaigns in the Solomons, Philippines, Formosa, Okinawa, Ryukyus and the Japanese homeland, with attacks on Tokyo, the naval base at Kure, and the island of Hokkaido.
		Sixth Fleet units operated at a high tempo throughout the 1980s, responding to a wide range of contingencies and terrorist incidents.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/navy/USN_general.txt (19714 words)

	Numbered Fleets
		The Second and Third Fleets are home-ported in the United States, with most of their forces training in coastal waters, while the Sixth and Seventh Fleets are home-ported at forward locations, with forces operating in areas of responsibility.
		Leadership and the fleet number varied, because while one admiral commanded the fleet in a specific operation, the other admiral served ashore with his staff planning the next major offensive.
		Third Fleet's missions are to operate as a numbered Fleet Commander and as a Sea-Based Joint Task Force Commander, in order to prepare assigned Battle Groups for contingencies throughout the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/navy/unit/fleet_n.htm (2072 words)

	USS Tunny (SSN-682) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She stood out of Charleston and headed across the Atlantic on 6 March and changed operational control to the Sixth Fleet ten days later.
		Following refit and tender upkeep in June and early July at Santo Stefano, Sardinia, Tunny rejoined the Sixth Fleet as a unit of TF 69 and resumed ASW training.
		She changed operational control from Sixth Fleet to the Atlantic Fleet Submarine Force on 17 August and arrived in Charleston 12 days later.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Tunny_(SSN-682) (807 words)

	DS9 Encyclopedia & Lexicon - Miscellaneous
		DS9 was designated as headquarters to the 9th Fleet after the station was retaken.
		They were cooperating with the Obsidian Order to invade the Gamma Quadrant and stage a first strike against the Dominion, but their fleet was annihilated by the Jem'Hadar, having been suckered into attacking the Founders' homeworld.
		However, the Dominion struck while the fleet was off on a training exercise, leading to the fall of Betazed.
	ds9encyclopedia.0catch.com /misc.htm (5750 words)

	Statement of Vice Admiral Murphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The forward deployed forces of the U.S. Sixth Fleet are at a high state of readiness.
		As demonstrated throughout the ongoing crisis in the Balkan Region, Sixth Fleet Sailors and Marines are ready and capable to support U.S. national interests when called upon.
		Recent Sixth Fleet participation in NATO Exercises DYNAMIC MIX and DISTANT THUNDER, as well as participation in Israeli Exercises NOBLE DINA and JUNIPER STALLION, was reduced or cancelled for lack of resources.
	www.house.gov /hasc/testimony/106thcongress/99-03-08murphy.htm (1496 words)

	Imperial Submarines
		Based on his observations, LtCdr Sakamoto reports to the Sixth Fleet HQ that the enemy must have access to the current naval code.
		Communications with Takagi's Sixth Fleet are disrupted by the invasion.
		Command of the Sixth Fleet's submarines passes to ComSubRon 7, Rear Admiral Owada Noboru (former CO of YAMASHIRO), at Truk.
	www.combinedfleet.com /RO-41.htm (1433 words)

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		Vice Admiral Murphy acknowledged the importance of the SIXTH Fleet's presence in the Black Sea, delivering the message in person that, in the midst of increased regional instability, the U.S. would continue its commitment to improving ties of friendship and security with all the nations of the Black Sea.
		Typically, the U.S. SIXTH Fleet will have an aircraft carrier battle group and an amphibious ready group, with approximately 3,000 embarked U.S. Marines, forward deployed to the Mediterranean theater of operations.
		The mission of the U.S. SIXTH Fleet includes demonstrating a visible sign of America's commitment to the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, and maintaining complete combat readiness in order to respond appropriately to political and military contingencies.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/news/eurnews/eur98/eur98032.txt (2251 words)

	Imperial Submarines
		Command of the Sixth Fleet passes to Rear Admiral Owada Noboru (former CO of YAMASHIRO), ComSubRon 7 at Truk.
		The I-54 is assigned to Group "A" with the I-26, -45, -53 and the I-56 under direct the command of Vice Admiral Miwa Shigeyoshi's (former CO of KINU) Sixth Fleet.
		Departs Kure to attack the carriers of Task Force 38 and the crippled USS HOUSTON (CL-81), but later is reassigned to patrol 120 miles E of the Philippines between the areas assigned to the I-38 and the I-46.
	www.combinedfleet.com /I-54.htm (554 words)

	Captain fights for America's defense: realistic fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It occurred to him that no other fleet was located in a small body of water in such a volatile region.
		The conflict continues in the second book, The Sixth Fleet: Sea Wolf (Nov. 2001), where America is fully engaged in a Mediterranean Sea war and must fight its way through the enemy-fortified Straits of Gibraltar.
		In the third book, The Sixth Fleet: Tomcat (Feb. 2002), American soldiers are taken hostage in Algeria and are forced to march through the Sahara Desert.
	www.dcmilitary.com /navy/seaservices/7_41/features/19851-1.html (874 words)

	USN Ships--USS Salem (CA-139)
		In 1956, Salem was designated as "permanent" Sixth Fleet flagship, and began her seventh Mediterranean tour in May. During this long cruise, she was present during crises over Suez in 1956 and Jordan in 1957.
		Performs on the quarterdeck of USS Salem (CA-139), as the Sixth Fleet's flagship was visiting Toulon, France, early in her 1951 Mediterranean deployment.
		Crewmen use roller tracks to move supplies on board the Sixth Fleet flagship, after they were transferred to her from a stores ship during underway replenishment operations in the Mediterranean Sea, 1957.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-s/ca139.htm (832 words)

	NMOC News Online, May/June 2001, Vol. 21 No. 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The bay is the homeport for the Sixth Fleet flagship, USS LA SALLE (AGF 3).
		U.S. Sixth Fleet QMC Anthony Bastidas looks on as LCDR Brian Connon demonstrates the setup of the "towfish", a side-scan sonar used to find and record any obstacles rising from the floor of the bay.
		The Naval Oceanographic Office created the Fleet Survey Team in order to fill a need for fast charting of "hot" areas, to include areas where the Navy has or will have a significant presence or where accuracy of current charts is questionable.
	pao.cnmoc.navy.mil /pao/n_online/archive/vol21no3/articles/gaeta.htm (1226 words)

	U.S. 6th Fleet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Sixth Fleet consists of approximately 40 ships, 175 aircraft and 21,000 people and is the major operational component of.
		The U.S. Sixth Task Fleet was established in 1949, the same year the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed, in the early days of the Cold War.
		It also participated in the so-called Operation Allied Force,, and.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/6th_Fleet (699 words)

	Sixth Fleet
		The Commander, Sixth Fleet, under CINCUSNAVEUR, plans for and conducts offensive or defensive naval combat operations when directed by CINCUSNAVEUR or other competent authority in order to establish and maintain control of the waters of, and air space over, the Mediterranean Sea, approaches thereto, adjacent inland areas, and the Black Sea.
		The Sailors and Marines of the 6th Fleet, along with other U.S. air and land forces, worked with America's NATO allies to counter a substantial Soviet threat to the stability of the Mediterranean region.
		According to 6th Fleet officials, 80 percent of the contingencies the United States responded to since the breakup of the Soviet Union have taken place in the 6th Fleet's area of responsibility.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/c6f.htm (797 words)

	- Chapter 6
		But Sixth Fleet didn't have enough SRHAWKs to destroy all of the gunboats in the combat space patrol waiting in Home Hive Three, even assuming that they worked perfectly and that the gunboats attacked every one of them.
		It had taken the Fleet some time to realize that the new drones even existed, far less to hypothesize their capabilities, and to date there was no immediate prospect of similar devices for the Fleet.
		But the Fleet had allowed for that in its own planning, and the gunboat combat space patrol responded almost instantly to the fiery wall of explosions as the robotic missile pods erupted from the warp point.
	www.baen.com /chapters/W200202/0671318489___6.htm (8911 words)

	USS CORONADO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		First assigned to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet in the 1970s, she conducted extensive operations, deploying on numerous occasions to the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas, as well as Northern Europe.
		During, a 10-month tour with the Sixth Fleet, Coronado operated out of Gaeta, Italy, participating in operations in the Gulf of Sidra and strikes against Libyan terrorist support facilities.
		In July 1986, Coronado was relieved as Sixth Fleet command ship and ordered to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to become the command ship for Commander, U.S. Third Fleet.
	www.coronado.navy.mil /mission.html (492 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Sixth Fleet: Tomcat (Sixth Fleet, 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By beginning with book three, `The Sixth Fleet: Tomcat,' I have the sense that I came in at the middle of the second act and left in the middle of the third.
		I just finished The Sixth Fleet: Tomcat and was held in awe with the excellent plot and character development.
		I just finished "The Sixth Fleet: Tomcat." I was impressed with the character development and the accuracy with which military strategy and equipment was presented.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0425183793?v=glance (1318 words)

	The Renaissance Fleet Homepage
		Of course, it's not the size that made it the flagship of Sixth Fleet.
		The Europa is one of the newest ships in the fleet, a new Discovery-class vessel replacing the USS Pict.
		Set in the 23rd-century where attitudes weren't as politically correct and micro-minis were regulation, the Merri is STF's first TOS Movie-Era roleplaying ship.
	www.star-fleet.com /stf6 (237 words)

	Naval Institute Proceedings Magazine: Lest We Forget, Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 22 (VR-22) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 22 (VR-22) was established on 15 October 1984 at Naval Station Rota, Spain.
		The Medriders routinely supported the Sixth Fleet in NATO exercises but frequently responded to international crises in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
		VR-22 supported the multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon in 1984 and the Sixth Fleet retaliatory strikes against Libya in 1986.
	www.usni.org /proceedings/Articles02/PROlwf09.htm (345 words)

	NRCC fleetsupport newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Over the course of the last year, the Fleet Support Division of the Naval Regional Contracting Detachment (NRCD) Naples has embraced its role as "Business Manager" in regards to Fleet requirements, while enhancing its reputation as a proactive and customer service oriented division within the organization.
		This end was achieved through presentations on various topics affecting the Fleet, panel and small group discussions, and open forums.
		The next Fleet Support Conference is being planned for late October 2000, tentatively in Lisbon, Portugal.
	www.naples.navy.mil /nrcc/FleetLiaison/newsletter.htm (1497 words)

	NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNTIL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As the fleet shifts from, say, an exercise with Spain in the western Med to a position off the coast of Lebanon, the permanent stations and the FLS sites allow a seamless flow of intratheater passengers, mail and cargo to reach them at all points along the way.
		It is important to note that Naval Reserve assets such as the C-9 and C-130 aircraft provide 100 percent of the intratheater medium-heavy airlift capability for the Sixth Fleet.
		Further, the U.S. Sixth Fleet Commander provides key command, control, and leadership for all U.S. Navy operations in theater from his Flagship (Homeported in Gaeta).
	www.house.gov /hasc/testimony/105thcongress/97-4-8Ryan.htm (5242 words)

	USIS Washington File: Text: Sixth Fleet Task Group Sent to Aid Turkey Relief Efforts
		The U.S. Sixth Fleet has dispatched a three-ship Marine expeditionary unit from Spain to the vicinity of Istanbul to provide humanitarian and medical assistance to victims of Turkey's devastating earthquake.
		The August 18 announcement by the Sixth Fleet said the unit, the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group, includes 2,100 Marines, one thousand sailors and 22 helicopters.
		The Kearsarge ARG, homeported in Norfolk, Virginia, left the Hampton Roads, Virginia, area in mid-April and is forward deployed to the Mediterranean as part of the U.S. Sixth Fleet.
	usembassy-australia.state.gov /hyper/WF990819/epf406.htm (436 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- U.S. Sixth Fleet commander visits Athens as Greece boosts Olympic security
		U.S. Vice Adm. Henry Ulrich, who directs the Navy's 6th Fleet, held talks with Public Order Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis in an unannounced visit just three days after Greece formally requested help from its NATO allies to safeguard the Aug. 13-29 Games.
		But the 6th Fleet, based in Gaeta, Italy, could likely play a central role in a NATO security network for the Olympics.
		Warships from the 6th fleet have been patrolling the eastern Mediterranean since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics/20040315-1421-oly-athenssecurity.html (477 words)

	Gaeta, Italy
		The Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea encompasses task forces, battle groups, amphibious forces, support ships, land-based surveillance aircraft, and submarines.
		The Sixth Fleet Flag Ship Command, Control and Communications Ship USS LASALLE (AGF 3) is homeported in Gaeta.
		The primary mission of Naval Support Activity Gaeta is to provide and maintain facilities and services to support the Sixth Fleet Staff and USS LaSalle personnel, along with their families stationed in the Gaeta area.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/gaeta.htm (633 words)

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