Also the 2nd Fleet did a lot of training of forces. Given recent news it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s a factor in their re-establishment.
2011...that was during Hussein O’s draw down of military effectiveness.
More worried about the ChiComs.
Yes, we reactivate a naval fleet under Trump that was deactivated under Obama, to firewall a threat from an adversarial power whom Trump allegedly colluded with to get elected. Is it just me, or does anyone else see the hypocritical disconnect in this whole scenario?
While the media rages about strippers, DJT quietly goes about the buiness of making America great again.
“Russian planes and ships have in recent months made multiple incursions in the north Atlantic “
“incursion”... another word for sailing in, or flying above international waters. The gigantic, world spanning, Russian navy warrants a whole new fleet being activated. /s
Nevermind about China.
“The 2nd Fleet command currently exists only on paper, but according to USNI News, a publication of the US Naval Institute, the command will open for business on July 1 with 11 officers and four enlisted personnel.
The command will eventually grow to 256 personnel — 85 officers, 164 enlisted and seven civilians — USNI reported, citing a memo signed earlier in the week by Navy Secretary Richard Spencer.”
But, but I thought a “fleet” had like a bunch of boats?
.........ships of Tarshish.........Isaiah 2
Heads-up to the ping list
Bring back Reagan’s 600 ship Navy.
In the 70’s, 2nd Fleet always did the nutty ports-of-call for the State Department. Leningrad was pretty cool, though.
They’ve created a bureaucracy now all they need is some ships and planes.
Would prefer the use of geographic names. What is wrong with the North Atlantic Fleet?
cold dutyThe ships had to come from somewhere else because very few are being built.
Could we grant McCain his last “Make a Wish” request, and catapult him off the end of one of our aircraft carriers?
The retired Navy folks here and I were discussing it and they don't see them. It takes three carriers to start up a fleet; one in maintenance, one in work ups and one deployed.
It takes three destroyers, two cruisers, two attack subs and associated logistics ships(3): If one is doing the near peer fight, the 2+2 isn't going to cut it.
So where are we getting all these extra ships and subs from? We'd have to build three more carries, nine more destroyers, six more cruisers, six more attack subs and nine more logistics ships of varying configurations.
Where are the ships, personnel and CASH to man them coming form? Where are we going to BUILD the extra carriers?
We can build one carrier at a time right now. We have the dry dock space to build two at a time at Newport News, but doubling the workforce there and at suppliers? The infrastructure build out to do two carriers at a time has to be in the $100 billion range.
I'm all for spending the cash, but holly cow! Saying we're standing up another fleet with nothing to equip it? Talk about paper tigers...